If the Web Fundamentals Course was like eating a tasty peanut butter and cholocate pie, jQuery (jQ) and JavaScript (JS) we’re like eating a bitttersweet pie and a pebble pie, respectively.<\/p>\n
Not as easy to pick up as HTML and CSS, but not too bad either.<\/p>\n
What is jQ? Officially, it’s a javascript library.<\/p>\n
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I moved through the course pretty fast and honestly don’t remember much of it. I did take extensive notes (hence the above definition), and made sure I at least understood what I was doing before I moved on. I did, or at least I thought I did.<\/p>\n
The humble pie experience of a lifetime!<\/p>\n
What is JS? Officially, it’s<\/p>\n
I was lost in JS from the get go, and I admit that I only finished the course with some serious, frequent help from the forum, often just copying other folks’ code directly and rejoicing that the code was accepted.<\/p>\n
About 80% of the way I through, I about gave up. I think I only finished the course, because I knew I would need the info eventually, and everyone loves a slider on their website! Sliders, I found out, we’re primarily made with JS, much to my chagrin.<\/p>\n
Happy to be out of the woods, I was eager to move on to the next course… PHP.<\/p>\n
Estimated hours of learning and practice: 30<\/em><\/p>\n Amount of ground I felt like I covered: next to none<\/em><\/p>\n Encouragement level: what the heck am I getting myself into? (that is, low)<\/em><\/p>\n One thing I do remember learning in this section was the “while loop”. A while loop is a repeating loop of code that will run as long as the while condition is met. If the loop is told to run while a variable equals “x”, and that variable never changes, the while loop will run forever, or at least until your browsers freezes and crashes or your website breaks.<\/p>\n Caution is the key, and making sure you can always edit your code outside of it’s running environment (e.g. by using an FTP client) is always a good practice should you break something.<\/p>\n Onward!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If the Web Fundamentals Course was like eating a tasty peanut butter and cholocate pie, jQuery (jQ) and JavaScript (JS) we’re like eating a bitttersweet pie and a pebble pie, respectively. jQuery… Not as easy to pick up as HTML and CSS, but not too bad either. What is jQ? Officially, it’s a javascript library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n