Day 2

Git and Terminal...

Today we had our first lecture via Google Hangout. Our instructor, Kris, just went over the basics and the first assignment on the CSS sheet. I was half-listening and half trying to learn terminal commands. I was still able to see how Kris did his webpage in a much faster time than I did. One cool feature was his use of outline property on CSS to outline which containers are which. I've been using borders to see where everything is but outline was the property I was looking for since it outlines the edges of the container rather than the outside border. 

Kris used the inspect element A LOT. He actually just tested all his CSS on the inspect element and when he was satisfied with what he saw, he would just re-write the code on the editor. This was pretty neat since I think it saved a lot of time but also I think you have to be pretty adept at using html/css to be comfortable knowing where to put everything although it's definitely another way I can make webpages faster!

As mentioned in the yesterday's post, I kinda breezed through the twitter bootstrap and LESS optional assignments. I definitely need to find time this weekend to at least get a deeper look. Twitter bootstrap just seems to be a bunch of pre-set code and all you have to do is change classes and whatnot to fit your desired webpage layout. LESS, from what I understand is a principle of how to write less CSS code. Although you have to run it through a program so that it works. One thing I've read and am pretty excited about is the fact that you can use variables in your CSS. This makes editing your webpage later on so much better since you can insert a variable and just change the variable at the top and see it cascade through all your selectors!

Anyways I'm meeting up with a bunch of fellow cohort people tomorrow at the regional library for a study session. It should be a pretty good experience getting to know each other.