The most interesting topic from this week, or the topic I enjoyed doing the most, was creating the Class Projects folder using Terminal and creating a website using Visual Studio Code. What I liked most about both activities is that I was able to code and actually see the effects of the coding in real-time. I also loved that the things I learned in PluralSight, I understood even more because I was utilizing the skills in reality. Taking notes on HTML and CSS is drastically different when actually coding HTML and CSS. When using the Terminal, I learned that “mkdir” is a path used to direct where the file is stored. While using the Visual Studio Code to create a website, we used selectors like <p> for a paragraph tag. We used <br> to place a break or spacing in the paragraph.
Something I found challenging about these topics was just remembering the correct format of the coding. For instance, when using HTML, and it’s a doctype, has to be expressed like <!DOCTYPE html> then indented on the next line would be <html> then a parent tag and a child tag. I currently find it challenging to remember to keep all of my documents in lowercase format and using dashes instead of spaces.
Basic Instructions for accessing the Terminal on a MacBook Chrome would be to go to the Launchpad. Search for the black app that kind of looks like a face winking at you. Open the Terminal. A black screen with green text will come up. Creating a folder on the desktop, enter %cd desktop then press return. Next label the folder you created as for example “Class Projects”, type class projects after the %cd desktop. And now there’s a folder labeled as “Class Projects” on the desktop. More steps can add folders inside the “Class Projects” folder.
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