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All The (Little) Things

9/23/2013

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I just had a girl in my web publishing class shriek with glee because she had successfully changed the HTML in her website to make the colors on her page uniform. 

I told her (and all of them) that what she had just experienced was 95% of learning to code (or learning anything else, for that matter).  You have to break it apart, look inside, figure out which pieces do what, and fiddle with it (in this case, the code) until you make it do what you want. 

Happy moments. 

Their assignment was to find a website that they liked, mimic the layout as closely as they could while using a free webhosting service, and then start embedding their own content. You can look at all of their (infant) sites at this MentorMob list: bit.ly/dtpcopycat

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Carrie Baughcum link
9/23/2013 08:25:39 pm

I have to admit HTML code is my least favorite thing. When ever I have to work with it it's like woooosh three hours gone, but when it does work...yeah! I love your idea of having the students try and replicate a favorite site. A great way to get creative juices going and it gives them a good model to work from. So happy to see you're still writing dude ;)

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Brian Bennett (@bennettscience) link
9/25/2013 10:49:06 am

I *love* that you're teaching your students to write code this year. Playing with HTML is how I began to learn, which led to CSS, some JavaScript (although, very poor JS), and now even some PHP as I've tweaked my Wordpress site. It's definitely something I enjoy doing, and I'm proud of the accomplishment when I get something to work the way I want it to.

If you ever need any help with anything, please don't hesitate to write. I'd love to be a part of this process.

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