I decided that I’m going to start teaching myself JavaScript because I want to round out my front-end development skill set. I think it’ll be a good addition to my design skills in general. When I started trying to figure it out I found that when I was trying to make sense of JS, I would try to rephrase what was said in the book in to plain English, as best I could, breaking every little thing down step by step. I started to write down questions in a notebook and then typing them out later, so I can fill in the answers once I figured it out. I started doing this mostly because I have trouble reading and retaining information when trying to read a text screen. For novels and random blog posts this isn’t an issue, but when I’m trying to learn something from an e-book or Internet articles I had to up with an active type of system to retain the information I was trying to learn.
Tag: Web Development
Rewind. Websites used to be easy to make. A single html file, a few images, and a Geocities account, and you have yourself a website. Frames were the layout tool of choice, and soon after Tables, then Floats. Now we have Flex-box nearly ready for show time. We also have abandoned Flash for Javascript and […]