Learning HTML/CSS
I think that the way in which we learned HTML and CSS in the class was fairly effective. I enjoyed the different projects and think that those were the most helpful things we did. The powerpoints were also beneficial, but sometimes felt like an information overload because we went through them very fast. I didn't like using codeavengers. While it was sometimes helpful the majority of the time it was just regurgitating what was taught in the powerpoints and was not particularly innovative in how it did so; I didn't really like that codeavengers felt very tedious and was very particular about what it wanted. I would frequently do things correctly but not exactly how they wanted it, which was very frustrating. It felt a lot like busy work when we were doing it. I think that doing projects is the best way to learn to code because it forces me to figure out how to do things and I learn as I look things up while I go along. While the html projects were a little frustrating, I still learned a lot while I was doing them and think that they were worthwhile.
I learned the most when doing the Stanford assignments we did in class because they were very challenging. I had to spend a lot of time googling things and working with others to figure out how to make the assignments look right. The biggest thing I learned while doing the projects was the importance of divs, classes, and ids in organizing html to make for cleaner code and easier css. While these things are not necessarily visible on the page, they are very useful in organizing the page. Overall, I think that I learned a lot about HTML and CSS formatting and am much better prepared to use it effectively on projects in the future.
