Weekly Challenges

For me, the most difficult part of this week was block and inline coding and understanding the difference between the two. Once I continued to do it, and a few questions later, I think I was able to understand. With more daily practice I should be coding better. I actually did, after the lesson, have to look up more information about it. W3 has learning videos, which are awesome.Using code academy and Youtube are also good tools to learn how to code more proficiently. I’ve seen the need for it as well. We learned shortcuts that would, for example, make every heading have a white background while the background of the lists below it is a light blue. The video provided was also great, as it was a well-needed review. Now I seem to have an understanding of HTML and CSS.

The more the class progresses, the more comfortable I am with code. It seems as though repetition and continued exposure to the different writing languages are making me more familiar. I believe I now have the ability to read and navigate HTML and CSS proficiently. It is easier to understand when breaking down parent and child groups. Styling using these languages is now becoming easier to read. Each line of code usually consists of one element along with its content to make it easier for humans to read. 

I found https://developers.google.com/blocklyLinks to an external site. online. I like that it has visual learning blocks to turn the code into a sequence. I like that its being marketed to adults and children so it should be easily understandable. With this toolkit the code is in actual blocks and other blocks can be plugged in to complete the code. This is also done using JavaScript.