Wednesday, February 5, 2014

So Late.../Debugging

     Well, it's a Wednesday, as we all know, and I'm at the house about to get a French press going again. My music of choice today, is one of my favorite modern singers. Allen Stone has done some amazing work. I love the jazzy style in his music. Today, I have hit my first real debugging issue ever. I was doing some lessons earlier today, and did exactly as the instructions said. That didn't really get me anywhere. Again, I have issue with the specialized console that I'm working with. It was giving me errors because I had an <else> to my <if> which is just crazy. There is no way that should interfere with anything, right? So, after getting through that craziness, I'm doing it again to ensure a better memorization of this lesson, there will be more after the HTML. So, now that I'v got that out of the way, time to plug in and plug away!
I really do love Allen Stone's music.


HTML




     So, the HTML, contrary to the JavaScript, is actually going quite nicely.  After finishing the tables section about monsters, I'm on to <div> and <span> I've already been dealing with <div> for a little while. I saw it on here, and did some research and found out how useful it is. I love it! You can make colors apply to exactly where you want it to. I'm so familiar with <span>, but I'm pretty sure I can take a stab at what it means. I suppose I'll find out when I get to it. So, <span> gives you more finite control. Let me give you a visual demo:
     Hello, my name is <div> and I make it so that when you hit enter things stay the same, but when I get
brought in
things get pushed around and there's not much you can do about it.
     See? I didn't put a <br /> tag in there or anything, that's just how it does things.
OK, let's try <span>:
      Hello my name is <span> and I don't mess things up. So, When I get called, You barely notice.
The <span> is around the "I" in case you didn't notice. Sly, right? Indeed. OK. Back to business!
     Well,I've been working away and now it looks as though I may need to have HTML/CSS as the header on this section. All done here for now!


JavaScript




      Man. Today the .js has been winning instead of the other way around. I just don't know about this, man. I think I need to take a step back and maybe a few chapters as well. They're just brushing over things that I barely have even heard of! So, What I'm going to do, is go back a few chapters and reexamine them tomorrow. This won't upset my progress, because; I'll be where I am now by Friday.       So, with that in mind, I'm going to finish what I'm working on now. I seriously did not like the debugging experience, but I know that it's a part of the process. So, just to clarify, I'm not discouraged, I just realize that I have so more to learn and need to reinforce certain areas. Which I think, is a good thing to do all the time anyways.
      I am getting it to work! Which is where I'm going to end this! The coffee, by the by, was TERRIBLE and I am definitely getting something tomorrow better than what I found lingering in the cabinets. So, tomorrow, I have two things: One: get some good coffee beans from the coffee shop. Two: Analyze the last few chapters of .js. I'll report back on Friday! See y'all!!

--Martin