Am I starting to program (well, maybe)
Over the past two weeks I had a few attempts at making a page with div boxes. First of all I had to find out what a DIV is:
“The DIV element defines a generic block-level container, allowing authors to provide style or language information to blocks of content.”
I started out trying to make my page. First I worked with a html online directory, in the face of failure I resorted to html cheat sheets, and then just viewing and copying the source of numerous web pages. I couldn’t make my page work. Just as I was about to give up last week a colleague sent me this url
for a site on patterning something we had discussed to do with something else that seemed to offer me the solution to my problem as it has the kind of features that I want - specifically the way image and word relate on the screen.
So for a week I sat and stared at the source code for the site for about 1.5 hours. I copied it over to a text file, played around with it and – well I still couldn’t make may page.
In our latest programming session (18 Nov), despite this failure (maybe even because of this failure as it kept me staring at the screen full of source code so long) I seem to have had a different kind of ‘revelation’ in my understanding of the logic and systematic character of code. (It is so strange it is as if immersing my self in the script by staring at so many sites has seeped in to my thinking.)
The session started with Yishay saying okay we’ll have a look at what you have done and my realizing I had not emailed my attempt at the page to him or brought it along with me. Never mind he says, ‘tell me what you are thinking the page is going to look like, and later we can have a look at that site and work it together’. Whereas before I had not been able to do this – now I can.
“The DIV element defines a generic block-level container, allowing authors to provide style or language information to blocks of content.”
I started out trying to make my page. First I worked with a html online directory, in the face of failure I resorted to html cheat sheets, and then just viewing and copying the source of numerous web pages. I couldn’t make my page work. Just as I was about to give up last week a colleague sent me this url
for a site on patterning something we had discussed to do with something else that seemed to offer me the solution to my problem as it has the kind of features that I want - specifically the way image and word relate on the screen.
So for a week I sat and stared at the source code for the site for about 1.5 hours. I copied it over to a text file, played around with it and – well I still couldn’t make may page.
In our latest programming session (18 Nov), despite this failure (maybe even because of this failure as it kept me staring at the screen full of source code so long) I seem to have had a different kind of ‘revelation’ in my understanding of the logic and systematic character of code. (It is so strange it is as if immersing my self in the script by staring at so many sites has seeped in to my thinking.)
The session started with Yishay saying okay we’ll have a look at what you have done and my realizing I had not emailed my attempt at the page to him or brought it along with me. Never mind he says, ‘tell me what you are thinking the page is going to look like, and later we can have a look at that site and work it together’. Whereas before I had not been able to do this – now I can.
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