Does anyone have any tips, or advce, on getting the most out freecodecamp's responsive web design course? I'm currently going through it and I'm realizing a lot of it is not sticking. Is it best to just keep plowing through the course? If you've taken it before, what has worked for you to learn the material? If not, other than a college course, what other approach can I take to learn web development?
1 month ago 路 馃憤 hanzbrix
@user999 Whether or not to read, heavily depends on your preferred method of learning.
By a "project" I think we both mean to just find something you want to accomplish with it and then go accomplish it.
Depending on your understanding of everything, reading the references in W3Schools, really helps knowing what is available to you. Playing around with the items to see how they behave, is the more practice oriented way.
Responsive page design isn't as hard as it seems. Once you have set the viewport to 1, it will always attempt to resize things to the screen. Then it is "just" to add stuff until it breaks and find out why. 路 1 month ago
@hanzbrix and @haze, as for building a small project, that seems insurmountable from where I am. I can make a hello world page, add headers, links, and perhaps give it an image and background color. Making anything more than that...I wouldn't even know where to start. I guess I can start with a tribute page, of sorts. At least that would get me making something.
Thank you, though. I'll give it a try. 路 1 month ago
Thank you, @hanzbrix and @haze. You've reminded me there's another option, and that's not to finish this online tutorial. I have to admit, though, taking that option feels like it leads me in a "the-blind-leading-the-blind" situation. How do I know what to learn when I don't know what to learn. @hanzbrix mentioned reading, and I do have a physical book, "HTML, CSS, & JavaScript: all in one for dummies," which I've been keeping as a sort-of reference. I guess I can try that. At least with a physical book, you can leaf back and forth through it without difficulty, which is what I need. 路 1 month ago
I am not sure about your specific situation. But I assume you have fallen into the "tutorial hell" where you are doing tutoruals and be able to understand them. Feel great. But can't really do anything if any details changed.
The solution is, unfortunatelly, DIY something. Come up with some random idea and build it. It doesn't have to be grand or complicated. Just something you haven't built before and will feel accomplicated if done. Like
Responsive calculator app
Responsive weather app
My 2 cents. 路 1 month ago
Never heard of freecodecamp, but assuming the material is at least of okay quality, you most likely don't learn well from that method.
So you have to find a different way of learning, think back to other things you have learned, what works and what doesn't for you?
Plowing through is just a waste of time, if nothing sticks already, continuing won't help.
Generally it is believed you can learn from reading, practice, discussion and retrospective. You need to find out what combination works for you.
Discussion and retrospective, you need other people for, practice is best if you find a small project and try to create it. 路 1 month ago