Remember in the last post where I started learning to write HTML codes so I can migrate my blog contents to a static site? One of my readers recommended Neocities and Bearblog. I’ve decided to sign up to Neocities because it has browser-based code editor, a gallery of many cute websites hosted there, and they’re have handful of tutorials and references for beginners. I followed the beginner’s tutorial, and then I found myself enjoying the process of learning and put it into practice. Even though it can make me feel hungry really quick and makes my brain melt, I realized coding is really fun!
However, I also realized that I need extensive guidance on how to write HTML. I looked up at different tutorial videos online, but I’m not sure I can follow them thoroughly because at that time, I’m not sure on how to build my new blog website, yet. Let alone the looks of it. One day, I found a post from my timeline about a free online Software Engineering course. Without any hesitation, I signed up, joined their Discord server and participated in their course for two weeks.
The first week were about the basics of HTML and CSS. The instructors were very supportive and their lectures were easy to understand, although it can be difficult to follow along at first. I did re-watch the lectures and followed their tutorials, and after that I think I’ve got basic understanding on how this tag works or what function do I use to do something I want. I also studied Git. Although I’m not very good at it, but I think I’ve grasped the basic functions of it. Thankfully, the instructors gave the reference links to the participants. Even my Fedi mutual gave me more references! Thank you so much! Oh, I use VSCode for this course (and for the rest of my learning) because that’s what’s the instructors recommended.
On the second week, the online course explained about Javascript. The instructors taught only the basics, such as using Javascript to make image auto-slide in a web page. It was difficult at first, but the important thing is I got the code right! After that, me and other participants got to try to code for ourselves based on an example from the instructors. Some figured out what code to use, some didn’t, and I was somewhat in the middle. At the end of the course, I was satisfied on the whole course. Even though it’s only the basics, I didn’t regret signing up.
As for now, I’m having my hands full with other stuff that I need to catch up on; however, I’ll try not to forget the basics of HTML, CSS and Javascript. In my opinion, those are very important skills, after all. More importantly, I’m having fun!
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