‘Reducing’ the page to a series of coding tasks

Yishay decided everything would be okay and that what I needed was to just move between the code, the idea, and small tasks and that maybe I should get myself an html desktop ref book.

We talked a while then Yishay had to knead his bread (true) so he said we’ll get to the computer in a bit, ‘okay you just take a step back and take the idea and – reduce it to the most minimal thing you have to do’. (I am not sure if it is ‘reducing’ or just representing?)

So I started talking aloud writing down my notes, breaking the tasks down into stages:

1. make a page – give it a colour and a title – make it with 4 vertical areas of space and 2 horizontal areas
2. make a box in each of these spaces – each the same size – and give each a title: box 1 – name; box 2 – colour and shape; box 3 – audio; and box 4 - movement
3. link a series of 10 images to box 2, link a series audio files to box 3, link a series of video clips to box 4
4. make function or rule: when the mouse is moved over box 1 the first image in box 2 appears
5. make function or rule: after 5 seconds the 1st image is replaced by the 2nd image, and after 5 secs the 2nd image is replaced by 3rd and so on – continues to loop/cycle through the (10) images
6. make function or rule: when the 10th image appears in box 3, the 3rd box with the first sound clip appears and starts and runs through series.
7. make function or rule: when the last sound clip ends the fourth box appears and first video appears in box 4, the 3rd box and appears and starts.
8. When the last video clip ends a button appears at the bottom of the page, enabling the reader to select and play the modes in the boxes
9. (not so sure about how to think about this bit?)An area where the reader can leave comments appears

So I got from the abstract metaphorical theoretical level to the concrete and specific in the end. (Even though as Yishay said ‘Of course there are loads of bugs in that – but well, you will build it and then you can sort that out’.)