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New side blog is up if you wanna go check it out!
You can find it here ↓↓
thanks to both of you, and thank you ooa you’re the bestest!! 💛💛💛💛
it seems like my ask from a few days ago didn’t get sent 😭 argh stupid tumblr
i was basically asking there what resources you would recommend for everything that could be useful for neocities,, like html, css,,(and you mentioned java script i think?) especially beginner-beginner stuff and then maybe for intermediate 👉👈 i know you probably have all those on your blog already but you know me in a bit 😵💫
also yes i’d love to work on ours together, even if we didn’t make them match! cause you know you have millions of brilliant ideas :33 🌻🌻💛
Hiya,
These are the stuff I used / still use, hope it's useful:
W3Schools
Mozilla Developer Network (MDN)
Codecademy
freeCodeCamp
Khan Academy HTML/CSS Course
Shay Howe's HTML and CSS tutorial
HTML Dog
CSS-Tricks
CSS Layout
Flexbox Froggy
Grid Garden
CSS Zen Garden
CSS Animation
Try them out and see what works best for you! 👍🏾
Does anyone have any free online resources for at least starting to teach yourself to code? I obviously have no illusions that I will become a badass tech bro from the get-go, but I wanna check if I am still as un-predisposed to it as I remember from my youth. In case there's an off-chance I am not too humanities-brained for that, after all. I love my current field, I love being an English major, but every day, I feel less and less respected or needed, especially when it comes to decent job offers, so I am growing desperate.
when the code works perfectly by the compiler, but the test fails for some reason. and you spend your time trying to figure it out only to realize that if you placed it earlier into the code, it passes both the compiler and the test. Coding makes me so dramatic and frustrated, but I love figuring out the answers at the same time ◉_◉
What is your favorite music to study to?
My favorite music to study to depends on what my mood is. If I'm doing alright, I'll listen to something deeper like chemtrails over the country club, evermore, folklore: the long pond studio sessions, or red tv.
If I'm anxious about my studies I usually listen to happier or upbeat music like: lover, 1989 tv, speak now tv, honeymoon, lust for life, born to die, midnights, or even electronic music like keep up by odetori lol.
But, if I'm really frustrated with math or coding, I do it in silence to really focus. If I have any music on when I'm frustrated it irritates me so much lol.
Frustrations
Following other developers, learners and makers are great. It facilitates learning and gives inspiration
But one thing that is often missing from people telling about how it is going, is the failures, frustrations and problems any developer will run into.
For this reason, two of my favorite maker youtube channels are Extractions&Ire (Chemistry) and Code Bullet (machine learning). Because these madlads are brave enough to not just show their process and result, but also their failures, mistakes and errors. And how they overcome them. Not always by learning (Sometimes making a dumb mistake is not really something you can learn from...)
It's good, because it's real.
Code tutorials and guides can give the impression that the normal process of development is "Open IDE, code, fix tiny typo error, compile, success". They don't do it out of malice, but out of a want to be concise. Which is fair.
So I also want to share when things do not go so well. I have programmed Atmel's AVR Chips for quite a while now. But I have done it mostly in microchip studio(former Atmel studio) and a bit in the arduino IDE. A job I am currently applying for, uses visual studio code. Which is fair enough. So to prepare for this specific job, and to acquire this quite good-to-have skill, I want to set that up for myself First things first, since I have not done this before, I cannot know if my code would have a weird error so I want to know everything else is working first. So I write a tiny program which simply have the microcontroller increase a number every 2 seconds and write it to my PC over UART. Takes 2 minutes.... I grab one of my Arduino Nano boards and a USB cable for it. And then... I cannot flash it... Its communication protocol have troubles.
I have seen this before. It is to do with the cables not being correct. If they are USB 2.0, very little magnetic noise can cause trouble. (And you cannot tell if a cable runs USB 2.0 or 3.0 by looking at it... because the universal serial bus is not universal... Insert grump rant here) I then spend an hour finding and trying different USB A to USB B-mini cables. Give up, notes down to buy (and MARK) some USB 3.0 versions for the future. I then grab a Arduino Uni instead, as they use USB B, which is much more resistant to noise... And then spend half an hour trying to find a the cable, as I do not have a lot of them, since... nearly nothing uses them. Finally find it, and yes, the program can now be flashed. So I packed all the cables I tested back in their places, after marking them so I will(hoefully) not have to do this again. Had to take several breaks feeling depressed and grumpy, and all in all, this adventure took 4-5 hours. And now I can START on this... And this is how work sometimes is. And that is ok. It is still... VERY frustrating ...
