I Finished the course!/.js is still a-happening.

     I already know that this is late because I'm writing the intro last. What, I can do that. It's called mixing things up. I do that sometimes. The good news is that I finished the HTML/CSS lesson! Olé! The boring news is that I still have a ways to go with the .js. Not really sure that's boring since that just means I'll be learning a lot more new things. Learning new things is always fun. So, I take the back the boring other news is that .js is still going on.  Ye olde(See, I did it again!) grooveShark is still blazing away. No coffee today. Just pure gumption over here! Time to plug in and plug away!

HTML/CSS

     Working away ye olde(I say ye olde too much) HTML/CSS again. Remember that website about an angry puppy from a while back? right around when I started CSS. They had me build it now. Which was weird, because; I knew what they were talking about! Whaaaaat?? That is just weird. The play on words was delightful. I'm working on positioning(still) and I am using it to make a "resumé" and they said how to "position" yourself. I laughed. Good grammar and a funny play on words is always delightful. Today was review. Lots of review.
     And now I know why! I'm done the lesson! Good thing I've got plenty of classes elsewhere that use HTML.

JavaScript

     First up are the notations. I've already gone over them, but today's theme seems to be review.
First there is Literal notation. "Literal notation creates a single object. It uses curly brackets { } and the object's default properties are defined within the brackets using <property:value> notation.
I find this to be the quickest when it applied to a small number of elements.

     Second is the Construction notation. "Constructor notation involves defining an object constructor. And like defining a function, we use the function keyword. You can think of this constructor as a "template" from which you can create multiple objects. To create a new object from a constructor, we use the new keyword."
I use this one when you have multiple elements with same properties.  For example:
//this one is the Construction notation.
var james = {
    job : "programmer",
    married : false
 
};
//This one is the Literal notation.
function Person(job, married) {
    this.job = job;
    this.married = married;
}

var gabby = new Person("student",true);

     See how many lines of code are needed in a Construction notation for one Object?
The Literal notation has more lines of code up front, but then you're able to add more in one line later on. The Construction notation has its uses, but, usually, in a more singular case. I say usually, because; everyone has their own way of doing things, and I'm sure that for some people, the Construction notation is their go-to trigger. My go-to trigger is my laptop. I found my old laptop, which means that I might be talking about a game soon. It's running ElementaryOS. I think I'll try and get Sublime Text or something along those lines and take a crack at it. That's all for today, folks! See y'all Friday!

--Martin

Syntax, My Dear

     It is a lovely Friday here in Texas and I am back at it! I'm here at the coffee shop getting ye 'ol caffeine going. I have been true to my lowering the caffeine amount, but I sure do miss it. So, I'm happy to have my cup 'o Joe today. So, now that I've got that and Freaks by Hawk in Paris playing, I'm ready to plug in and plug away!

                                       HTML5

     After acing the test for all the HTML that I've learned over the course of the last few days, I moved on to a social networking profile for King Kong.  That's not something you say every day.   To start they want me to make ME a profile. This:https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-gq0oYM8KXyA/UupJccVf9NI/AAAAAAAB-tg/_F3b13eH30Q/w852-h608/but-first-coffee_0.jpg
was the picture that I went for my profile pic. I think that works just fine. I'm actually really picking up this HTML stuff really well! I think I'm starting to get how to learn how to learn programming more easily. Pretty sure my synapses are starting to realign themselves so that I remember text better. 
     I finished the social profile! I am now the social profile maker of awesome!

Olé! Now, onward to the JavaScript!

                                    JavaScript                  

     And we're meeting the Logical Operators again! There are three Logical Operators in JavaScript and they are: 'and' (&&), 'or'(||), and 'not'(!) I've already dealt with these, but now they're being again. Starting with: 

var iLoveJavaScript = true;
var iLoveLearning = true;

if(iLoveJavaScript && iLoveLearning) {
  // if iLoveJavaScript AND iLoveLearning:
  console.log("Awesome! Let's keep learning!");
} else if(!(iLoveJavaScript || iLoveLearning)) {
  // if NOT iLoveJavaScript OR iLoveLearning:
  console.log("Let's see if we can change your mind.");
} else {
  console.log("You only like one but not the other? We'll work on it.");

}
Which works out well, because; I do love learning.  
     And now to work on a Choose Your Own Adventure game involving a troll. I'm making a game, on the internet, about a troll. Irony thy name is Choose Your Own Adventure.
     So, it would seem that yet again the people writing out the lessons forgot to tell me something important... Let me explain; here's what they told me to do: do a variable that includes a prompt. Make the prompt have a <.toLowerCase> or a <toUpperCase> at the end and then create some switch statements. This is what I made:

var user = prompt("What is your quest?","Answer here.").toUpperCase();

switch(user){
    case "Bacon.":
        console.log("That's not a quest!");
        break;
    case "To seek the Holy Grail":
        console.log("Right. Off you go.");
        break;
    case"To be bored and alive":
        console.log("That's not a quest, that's what a teenager says.");
        break;
    default:
        console.log("That... isn't in the records, but whatever. Go away.");
}

     Now, at first, I didn't know why I was only getting the default switch statement. Turns out, you need to uppercase your cases like this:
  case "BACON.":
        console.log("That's not a quest!");

        break;
so that they will be the same. They didn't tell me that. Deductive reasoning alone got me through that lesson after some loss of time. Seriously, I think someone that didn't really know what they were doing made this entire series and was overseen by someone who just glanced around to make sure things ran. There should be some kind of beta testing or something for anything like this. But, I digress. Onward to the rest of the studies! 

     So, after battling my way through that, I am now moving on to Arrays and Objects. Which, I know I've gone over before, but it's never a bad thing to brush up on things already studied at this stage. You can put arrays inside other arrays? Array-ception! 
     So, you can nest other arrays in Dimensional arrays: var array=[["Hello", "Hi"],[23,46]];
Which all have the same  amount of elements as nests (number of[]'s) how many dimensions the array has is governed by how many nests it has. So, in this case, it's a two dimensional array.
And Jagged Arrays: var array=[["burp","Pizza"],["questions",42,"life"],[13]];
Which don't have the same amount of elements in their respective nests, but can still be used in the same manner. 
     Well, a lot has been done today! Good thing for the coffee!  I just have to remember syntax! Syntax,syntax,syntax!! From what I've heard, that's just something any programmer has to be aware of. So, keeping that in mind, I'll see y'all Monday!

--Martin