Week 3
Well...I'm just glad it's over.Between living in various locations (including: moldy apartment, empty-complex-provided apartment, my brother Josh's house in the adjacent town, or with friends), dealing with the apartment complex over this issue, working, coding, finding places outside of the Iron Yard HQ that has internet so I CAN work (though the apartment has internet...it comes at the cost of surviving through the spore infested air.)....let's go back to my first statement. I'm glad it's over.
Coursework
This past week we learned html and css, which were both entirely new to me. While there were a number of terms that I was more than familiar with, due to my proficiency in the Adobe suite (thanks, design degree!), there was also the trouble of having to learn this new syntax and making sure the two communicated properly.
The writing of the html wasn't too rough, and the css - though I had heard stories of how rough it can be to work with - didn't seem all that bad....I just couldn't get the two to properly communicate. This, coupled with missing the lab portion of a few days to deal with the apartment complex had me feeling I was so far behind. I took my one free evening and sat at HopCat to use their free wifi and worked from the bar all night. I read through most tutorials and pieces I could find on whatever was causing me errors. The assignment I was backed on was one where we were provided the html, but we needed to edit it and add the css to manipulate the images and text to appear the same as a prompt.
...for the life of me, I couldn't get it to work. (Retrospectively, I was under the impression we were not to change the html for this assignment. I later learned that was kinda needed to make anything work on the page.) So come Friday, I knew if I didn't get to working on the lab assignment, I would fall into the deep-end of confusion, frustration, and generally being lost.
The writing of the html wasn't too rough, and the css - though I had heard stories of how rough it can be to work with - didn't seem all that bad....I just couldn't get the two to properly communicate. This, coupled with missing the lab portion of a few days to deal with the apartment complex had me feeling I was so far behind. I took my one free evening and sat at HopCat to use their free wifi and worked from the bar all night. I read through most tutorials and pieces I could find on whatever was causing me errors. The assignment I was backed on was one where we were provided the html, but we needed to edit it and add the css to manipulate the images and text to appear the same as a prompt.
...for the life of me, I couldn't get it to work. (Retrospectively, I was under the impression we were not to change the html for this assignment. I later learned that was kinda needed to make anything work on the page.) So come Friday, I knew if I didn't get to working on the lab assignment, I would fall into the deep-end of confusion, frustration, and generally being lost.
...right in line with my Halloween costume this year, as Ron Burgundy...
The lab assignment was: here's what we want the 'blog' page to look like. Build it. (on Normal Mode, anyway)
Surprisingly, when I made the html and css from scratch, it seemed to all 'click'. (pun intended)
Chris humorously provided us links to place-holder image generators for cat images and another for bacon images, as he said the images could be anything we wanted, the text could be anything, etc. ...so long as it fit the layout theme. Naturally, my blog page I built was titled "Kittens and Bacon". I'm super proud of it, and it makes me laugh every time I look at it. I just wish I knew how to place it on a server and have it live. (But apparently we'll be getting to that by the end of next week or so.)
Chris humorously provided us links to place-holder image generators for cat images and another for bacon images, as he said the images could be anything we wanted, the text could be anything, etc. ...so long as it fit the layout theme. Naturally, my blog page I built was titled "Kittens and Bacon". I'm super proud of it, and it makes me laugh every time I look at it. I just wish I knew how to place it on a server and have it live. (But apparently we'll be getting to that by the end of next week or so.)
Me-ow!
Mid-week
This week has been about getting stability back. After working 30 hours between Saturday, Sunday, and last night, I'm doing my best to stay awake and focused. I'll ashamedly admit, I did conk out for a moment near the end of lecture today. Whereas I hear that's a sign of 'hard work' in some societies...I don't want that to happen again.
We had an introduction to Sinatra as a way of stepping into adding together Ruby basics with html and css, using .erb files to pull the data when entering in specific URLs. ...I had no idea what the hell that statement would have meant on Monday. And honestly - I still have only a basic grasp, but at least I know the components well. Now I just need to orchestrate them with Sinatra. (Boy, there's a statement that works for multiple lines of work.)
We had an introduction to Sinatra as a way of stepping into adding together Ruby basics with html and css, using .erb files to pull the data when entering in specific URLs. ...I had no idea what the hell that statement would have meant on Monday. And honestly - I still have only a basic grasp, but at least I know the components well. Now I just need to orchestrate them with Sinatra. (Boy, there's a statement that works for multiple lines of work.)
Today we're using Rails for the first time as well. It's similar to Sinatra...except way more powerful and has much more at its disposal. Like Kanye West, if he was a crooner...and wasn't an asshole. (There's one man who SHOULDN'T have all that power...)
Again, I'm finding myself having a loose idea of what's happening in class. I feel I know each of the components being used, and I'm familiar with them being used in simpler settings, but now we're beginning to really layer it on in ways that seem impressive - and potentially overwhelming - if they aren't taken step-by-step. I just keep reminding myself - "How do you eat an elephant? ...one bite at a time..."
I love how this photo makes no sense.
Mold Update
I'm currently waiting on paperwork for the terms of termination of my lease. I should be living somewhere where the air is fresher soon. (Hopefully with Terry Gross.)
Thanks for reading - feel free to comment or follow - I appreciate you.
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