Today's soundtrack is Buddy Guy: The Blues is Alive and Well. This morning, I'm continuing with the lessons on freeCodeCamp; today, I'll be learning more about CSS styling. I've already learned how to use CSS style classes to modify the colour of a piece of text; now, I'll be learning how to use CSS to … Continue reading 09.08.2018: One Lesson of Coding

Today's soundtrack is Eldamar: A Dark Forgotten Past, an album that sounds to me like a direct descendant of Burzum's classic "Filosofem." This evening, I'm starting the Basic CSS section on freeCodeCamp. CSS, which stands for "Cascading Style Sheets," is used to control what a webpage looks like. Unlike HTML, CSS is case-sensitive. The standard … Continue reading 08.25.2018: One Lesson of Coding

Today's soundtrack is Tech N9ne: The Storm. This evening, I'm learning how to use HTML to "Define the Head and Body of an HTML Document" (link). We use the head of an HTML page to provide a web page's metadata; the body is where we put the information that users will see. Metadata, which according … Continue reading 08.23.2018: One Lesson of Coding

Today's soundtrack is William Fitzsimmons: Pittsburgh, a beautifully melancholic and strangely nostalgic album. This afternoon, the Randomizer has decreed that I shall learn one lesson on freeCodeCamp. Today, I'll be learning how to use HTML to make checkboxes. Like radio boxes, checkboxes are a form that allows a site to receive user inputs; however, checkboxes … Continue reading 08.15.2018: One Lesson of Coding

Today's soundtrack is Hank Williams, Jr.: Family Tradition. This afternoon, I'm continuing to learn about basic HTML and HTML5 on freeCodeCamp. We can nest things within other things: for example, a link can be put inside of a paragraph. This isn't clickable, but this is! If we are designing a website but don't yet know … Continue reading 08.08.2018: One Lesson of Coding

Today's soundtrack is ChuggaBoom: Zodiac Arrest, a really fun nü-metal album with tongue-in-cheek lyrics, solid production, and great musicianship. This afternoon, I'm working through the fourth chapter of Al Sweigart's Automate the Boring Stuff With Python, "Lists." We use lists to hold information. If we make a list, each item inside of it is automatically … Continue reading 07.28.2018: One Lesson of Python

Today's soundtrack is Phil Joel: The New Normal. This afternoon, I'm working on the third chapter of Al Sweigart's Automate the Boring Stuff With Python, "Functions." A function lets us define a series of code one time and then automatically run that code any time we want. We start by defining the name of the … Continue reading 07.26.2018: One Lesson of Python

Today's soundtrack is Katatonia: Dead End Kings. This morning, I'm working on the second chapter of Al Sweigart's Automate the Boring Stuff With Python, "Flow Control." We use "[f]low control statements [to] decide which Python instructions to execute under which conditions" (citation). This idea works just like a flowchart. See the Engineering Flowchart, created by … Continue reading 07.07.2018: One Lesson of Python

Today's soundtrack is Angelo Badalamenti: Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me. This morning, I perused the final three lessons in Coding Projects in Python, determined that none of them presented anything new and were therefore of no interest to me, checked off the book on Goodreads, and started on Al Sweigart's Automate the Boring … Continue reading 07.01.2018: One Lesson of Python