In high school, way back in the 80’s, I learned Pascal in a
class and loved it! I thought it was
really cool that I could put in code and this picture would appear. It came easily to me and I enjoyed it. At the time, it didn’t seem like something to
pursue, I guess because it was a time when computers weren’t prevalent.
Flash forward a couple of decades and I am taking a web
design class and loving it. Don’t get me
wrong, it is challenging for me, but I feel like I am in my zone of proximal
development and learning with a lot. All
of the bits and pieces are coming together and making sense. A true sign of this to me is that I am able
to trouble shoot code and understand it.
One of the hardest assignments for me were the Jen’s kitchen
assignments, it was challenging for me to link to other recipes and back to the
home page. This really helped me with
understanding file structure and how I want to organize my files, as well as
understanding the necessity of having a consistent file naming system. One example at http://www.csupomona.edu/~lthester/512/bookexercises/ch6_files/ex6-7%20index.html
The most rewarding assignment so far, because it too was
challenging for me, has been the final Tuscany page for ch.7. It is just such an aesthetic pleasure to have
linkable thumbnails and back to home links that work. (That sounds really
geeky!) The challenging part of this
assignment was the way I had the files stored and the names I gave them. At some point I changed the names or moved
the images and they didn’t link anymore.
This happened a few times as I was becoming more proficient and
efficient with file storage and file naming. Example http://www.csupomona.edu/~lthester/512/bookexercises/ch7_files/
