Journal 6: Reflection

I was so excited to to take this class, I have a little experience in Photoshop and Illustrator but absolutely no experience in web design or html, and have been wanting to get my feet wet for years. This class has far exceeded my expectations, I thought html would be difficult and hard to learn, but I am finding that it is actually quite intuitive. 

I am surprised at how quickly I went from writing a simple page to adding fancy fonts, pictures, backgrounds.  

The Learning Web Design book

Has been an amazing adjunct to class. 

I like that html follows very specific rules, that you "open" and "close" and that there are defined way in which to do things--this applies to the part of me that loves math and calculus.  Further I love that you can keep the "meat" or content of your website the same but change up the style quickly with different style sheets. 

The hardest thing for me has been keeping the tags straight (thank goodness it's easy to google stuff!) and not getting frustrated when I can't find my mistakes!  (Missing one closing tag sure can mess a lot up!). I also find Style Sheets slightly confusing but they are getting easier with every sheet!

Here is what I've been working on:

My CPP Webpage

My Labs

My Book Exercises

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Q1: What has been the hardest part of coding for you?

A1: I think the hardest part thus far has been keeping track of all my closing tags, I get excited and code too fast and then I can't figure out my mistakes. I find that if I close my tags before I continue coding and them type between them I miss fewer tags. 

Q1: What do you plan to do with your new found coding skills?

A1: Make a super cool website of course!  I am hoping to make an awesome website that will help teach medical residents how to build a simulation human neck for teaching the surgical airway!  And hopefully build out a few other educational websites--such as a site to host Emergency Medicine FOAM-Ed videos!

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When my husband and I got married the thing that I was most concerned with was the cakes. We had about 20 wedding cakes!  My sister and I made the majority of the cakes, she decorated them all, and I had several awesome friends and family that made cakes as well. It was a tasty affair!