Looking Back on HTML and CSS
- ) Think about your first day class. How did you think websites were built? Now how do you think they’re built? What’s the difference in your thinking?
I thought websites were built the way I saw things be coded in Mr. Robot and crime shows with a series of 0’s and 1’s scrolling across the screen. Now I realize it’s actually a comprehensive LANGUAGE that has sense and structure that anyone can learn. I’m seeing it as learning a new language, like Spanish or Italian, and plugging it in in the perfect order to make it work.
2.) What have you gained from beyond code? Beyond tech savvy?
I’ve been welcome into a whole new community of people that I never knew existed that love to share knowledge and learn together. I’ve learned to be a kid again, be curious, and play with code without fear of what happens to it — just try it for fun.
3.) Where do you think your headed? Why? How? What are you going to do to encourage that?
Through this I realized that many companies in the cosmetic and aesthetics world need developers CONSTANTLY between updates for products, special themes during different times of the year. I would love to be a girl who codes in that community because I’ve learned from being on the other side that most of the developers we turned to were male dominated. I’m hoping to combine my experience in the industry with my new coding skills to start a new career in an industry I already love.
4.) What kind of projects do you see yourself working on in ten months?
I hope to be helping my friends with small businesses create custom websites to show case their content. I have a friend starting a podcast and closing her Etsy business and now she’s stuck on what platform to have for podcast. I’m hoping to build a website that fits her vibe and she can be able to sell merch, post episodes, share a community, and showcase her custom art.
5.) Why is it generally a good idea to position CSS <link>s between <head></head> and JS <script>s, just before </body>? Do you know of any exceptions?
HTML is loaded line by line and runs it will call the files and execute it’s contents as the line is loaded. JavaScript is known to delay or block some pages from loading because of this.
It became a best practice to add JavaScript or refer to external JavaScript files at the bottom of the page, the files are only loaded after all the page content loads.
6.) Consider HTML 5 as an open web platform. What are the building blocks of HTML 5?
- Semantics: allowing you to describe more precisely what your content is.
- Connectivity: allowing you to communicate with the server in new and innovative ways.
- Offline and storage: allowing webpages to store data on the client-side locally and operate offline more efficiently.
- Multimedia: making video and audio first-class citizens in the Open Web.
- 2D/3D graphics and effects: allowing a much more diverse range of presentation options.
- Performance and integration: providing greater speed optimization and better usage of computer hardware.
- Device access: allowing for the usage of various input and output devices.
- Styling: letting authors write more sophisticated themes.
7.) What’s the difference between the :nth-of-type() and :nth-child() selectors?
The :nth-child selector, in “Plain English,” means select an element if:
- It is a paragraph element
- It is the second child of a parent
The :nth-of-type selector, in “Plain English,” means:
- Select the second paragraph child of a parent
8.) What is the CSS-selector specificity, and how does it work?
Specificity is a rank that determines which style declarations are ultimately applied to an element.
9. What resources do you use to learn about the latest in front-end development and design?
Austin Coding Academy @LubbockCodingAcademy
