Topic

codecademy

A collection of 4 issues

Day 3: Event Handlers and Animations

I only did one jQuery class today as I had a lot to get done otherwise, but we went over documentation (which I never use the browser for because Dash) and preparing your prototype with comments, looking at your HTML file to see what you need to animate. We went

Day 2: Rehashing jQuery Basics

So today I went over jQuery basics, documentation and a total disruption of what I learned on Free Code Camp and Codecademy. At both Free Code Camp and Codecademy I learned to write: [code language=”javascript”]$(document).ready[/code] before all the other code to help load the DOM before

JavaScript, JavaScript, JavaScript

Free Code Camp, love. I really am in love with this site. I guess it’s kind of disingenuous– Free Code Camp outsources its JavaScript course (for beginners) to Codecademy. But I’ve built some pretty interesting games, felt the frustration of debugging (missing curly brackets search for 30 minutes.

Finding ONE (Well, TWO) Tutorial Sites and Sticking to Them

There are so many great sites. I am on The Odin Project, Codecademy, and Lynda.com. To be fair, my library offers free Lynda subscriptions for all cardholders and soon, being a Pitt student means I get Lynda.com as a benefit which rocks because I love their tutorials. But