Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Day 158: "HTML & CSS," by Jon Duckett

O.k., today I'm starting on page 155 of the "HTML & CSS" book, which deals with input elements.  I really want to continue with the FCC problems, but I've got to refresh a lot of my HTML and CSS knowledge.

According to an answer on Quora by FCC's founder, of the 142,513 campers (students) going through Free Code Camp, 208 have earned the Front End Dev Certificate, while 22 have earned the Full Stack Dev Certificate.  That's a tiny percentage, about .14 for the front end cert and about a tenth of that for the full stack cert.  Here's a screenshot:




Knowing this gives me quite a jolt of motivation.  Completing FCC puts you squarely in a very small, elite group of campers.  That's good stuff.

So, HTML5 is introducing form validation via the browser.  That's new.  At the time of the book's writing, only Chrome and Opera supported HTML5 validation.  I'm on page 179 of the book now, it goes over forms in general, and HTML5 improvements to them in specific.


This is the DOCTYPE declaration that is used for HTML5 documents: 

<!DOCTYPE html>

After that would go the <html> opening tag, then the <head> and <body> opening and closing tags, with the tags containing the content of each within, and at the end of the document, the closing </html> tag.  Comments in HTML 5 are placed inside the document like so: <!-- comment goes here -->.  I should be using comments much more than I currently am, as creating code in a work environment often involves collaboration, and it's not always easy for another person to understand someone else's code.

HTML id attributes can begin with any letter or an underscore, but must have a unique name.  Attributes should use lower case letters.  If we want to give an element multiple classes, we can separate the classes with a space (but put all the classes in the same set of quotes).

SUMMARY OF CODING SKILLS

Total Treehouse Points: 5,503

Treehouse Points by Subject Matter (Miscellaneous not included): 
HTML:                                663 
CSS:                                1,599 
Design:                            1,193 
Development Tools:            747 
JavaScript:                      1,239

Treehouse Ranking (%): "You have more total points than 93% of all students."

Treehouse Courses Completed:
How to Make a Website
HTML
CSS Foundations
CSS Layout Techniques
Aesthetic Foundations
Design Foundations
Adobe Photoshop Foundations
Adobe Illustrator Foundations (66% complete, switched focus from web design to web dev)
Console Foundations
Git Basics
Introduction to Programming
JavaScript Basics

Codecademy (& other) Courses Completed:
HTML and CSS (Codecademy) 

Books Read or in Progress:

Completed: "Head First HTML and CSS," by E. Robson & E. Freeman
Completed: "A Smarter Way to Learn JavaScript," by Mark Myers 
In Progress: "HTML and CSS," by Jon Duckett (On pg 187 of 490)
In Progress: "JavaScript and JQuery," by Jon Duckett (on pg 0 of 622)

My Progress on The Odin Project:
1.  Introduction to Web Development                                             100% Complete
2.  Web Development 101                                                               33% Complete 
Note: Switched to FCC for the great online community and better updates/support.

My Progress on Free Code Camp (FCC): 
1. Get Started with Free Code Camp                                                      Complete
2. HTML5 and CSS                                                                                  Complete
3. Responsive Design with Bootstrap                                                       Complete
4. Gear up for Success                                                                           Complete
5. jQuery                                                                                              Complete
6. Basic JavaScript                                                                                 Complete
7. Object Oriented and Functional Programming                                     Complete
8. Basic Algorithm Scripting                                                                   Complete
9. Basic Front End Development Projects                                                 On 4 of 5
10. Intermediate Algorithm Scripting                 On 4 of 21 (#13 and #14 also done)

11. JSON API's and Ajax
12. 
Intermediate Front End Development Projects
13. Claim Your Front End Development Certificate
14. Upper Intermediate Algorithm Scripting
15. Automated Testing and Debugging
16. Advanced Algorithm Scripting
17. AngularJS
18. Git
19. Node.js and Express.js
20. MongoDB
21. Full Stack JavaScript Projects

22. Claim Your Full Stack Development Certificate

After the 800 hours of FCC work above, there are 800 more hours of non-profit coding projects.


Hours Spent Coding Today: 2
Total Hours Coding: 729

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