christina695

christina695

7+ day streak
Created a variable in JavaScript...... that's it there....
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JavaScript: Learning about string concatenation, properties, and methods and builtin objects. Got stuck on .ceil....
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Starting the JavaScript workshop in Codeacademy.....
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This morn, I did a deep read on GitHub, mostly on the wikipedia page, trying to understand different parts of it. I also reread my own learning to code blog at christina.cool, and practicing some website stuff like adding images, converting them from png to jpg and sizing them.
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Joined my first ship showcase! and am learning the process of buying a domain name and connecting it up my file host
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Practiced linking inside a page lia href="#lead" and also CSS today- I have 3 websites I'm building atm, and one I'm beginning to do collaboratively on GitHub, which is really exciting.
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Ran my first online Hack Club workshop yesterday w @sg69926, hosting and moderating on Zoom, while also screen-sharing the fundraising deck of my guest, Emily Ramshaw of the 19th News. Thanks to @dinaelhanan for prepping w me! This is one of Emily's slides- she has raised $9million this year, and I learned a lot listening to how she did it
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Later today, I'll build a presentation for my mini AMA w Emily Ramshaw on raising money. This morn, I added pages to my personal website, html and css
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Still spending the week building websites in HTML. Today, I played around with HMTL color picker and Google fonts, as well as padding and line height in the CSS
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Making improvements to my personal website and practicing html: Christina.cool
Friday I wrote my first line of Python in @dinaelhanan's workshop. Separately, I finished Intro to HTML course! I'm going to just build websites for a week but getting excited to move on to new things
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Hired a spokesperson for Hack Club
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Setting up my new home office - and taking good care of the Hack Club white board!
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Learned about semantic vs non-semantic html and practiced a few tags like section and embed Wondering if these tags are regularly used instead of divs?
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The only thing I made was these peach cobblers
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Practicing forms....
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Made some kale salad from my garden; and finished forms tutorial in Code academy
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Finished my first html form by adding text area; and am reading about validation now. christina.cool/forms-practice.
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Added a data list id to my forms at Christina.cool/forms-practice.com but couldn’t size the photo right
My friendship form grows w radio buttons!
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Road tripping DC 🇺🇸 to VT with my mom. 🚗 🌅
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Trying out some Javascript. Also, I'm starting my vacation 🏖️ by reading a new book about the history of Silicon Valley and I ❤️ having time to read!
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Started practicing JavaScript
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Codeacademy returns! Practice random table-making
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Just practicing CSS. 🤸‍♀️ Wondering if I'll hit my SOM goal of building something in Javascript......😮
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Having fun making websites and playing around with CSS- and also still building out my garden with more pretty flowers 💐 🌸 ☀️
Yay -learned how to put websites online and published 3!  1st took me 12min to open a repo, open the folder in VS Code editor, then commit and push on GitHub desktop; 2nd time took me 7 mins and 3rd time took me 2mins 47 seconds !!🔥
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Redoing my website and nailing down the entire flow from !DOCTYPE html to uploading ...
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Still getting to know VS Code editor. My cat made for a cuter photo tho.
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Tried and failed to go entirely through the flow of creating a basic website in VSCode editor, getting it onto GitHub and then onto my website. Ended up watching some beginner VSCode/GitHub videos but still pretty stuck. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk12ELJ9Bww
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Practiced getting code onto website
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Finished my first ever garden
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Yay💃 built a beautiful simple website & got some amazing CSS lessons from @lachlanjc
Jumped off this waterfall in Warren, VT yesterday and also .......practiced forms in html
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updated my Learning to Code blog on christina.cool w my latest thinking on the beginners' journey to coding
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Learned some new CSS like “letter-spacing” and “padding”. Also, went to see an outdoor Dr. Seuss play in a Vermont field.
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Worked on rowspans this morning on my website. Couldn’t figure out how to span columns, tho. Argh!!
Building a schedule into my website
Figured out how to create and link my CSS file in VS Code editor- thanks Hack Club!!!
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still working on tables in VSCode... i did style them a little!
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Reading about Visual Studio Code and how to create a CSS
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Building my first table in html w my new vs code editor
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Just gettin so technical.....now using VS Code Editor and GitHub Desktop. W tutorials from @zrl & @lachlanjc and from the kitchen @msw thank you!
Working in html on file inputs. Definitely need to figure out link shortener for this photo!
Produced an AMA today with the Hack Club team and super host @rishi
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trying out the tutorial on inputs in html in codeacademy. and wondering if this is worth learning, or i should skip over it to the Javascript tutorials....
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Coded w @dinaelhanan and some #orpheus-legion members; added shadows and padding to my website; practiced CSS
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Finally, added images and links for My Books (a page on my personal website)
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Tiny "make": I shipped my website on #ship and I learned object-fit in CSS
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Styled my CSS - using the inspect button and the app colorslurp for the first time!
worked on divs in the CSS of a website I'm playing around with
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Learned how to upload one of my photos into my CSS, and make it a background image on my website with text over it
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My first scrapbook post ! Spent the morning playing w my CSS and my summer goal is to build something w JavaScript