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To be honest, I wasn’t thrilled to have an assignment to do over spring break, especially one of this size. But the project was one I was kind of familiar with. In high school, I took a computer class where we learned HTML coding so I knew stuff like the simple format, the importance of the opening and closing tags, and using CSS to customize the webpage.
I started the W3Schools HTML lessons on Tuesday, March 17 and finished up to HTML Images on Thursday, March 19. I originally planned on completing three lessons a day to break them up, but on Thursday I decided to just complete the last seven sections. When I started the lessons, I decided to use the new skills I learned to build upon the same Tryit Editor web page in order to visually log how much I was learning and what all of the skills combined looked like on screen.
I liked how W3 introduced some skills like adding paragraphs in the first few sections then expounded upon that element in their own separate lessons later on. It got me at least familiar with the concept before delving into them.
The coolest thing I learned was that I could edit code in the Notepad app! I didn’t know about that function. I encountered the hardest lessons on that Thursday: HTML Comments, HTML CSS, and HTML Images. I’m not quite sure when I would use HTML Comments. The lesson made it seem like it could be used to communicate with a collaborator in the editor. HTML CSS just had a lot of confusing different aspects. I don’t understand the concept of adding a link to the heading to refer to an external CSS file, or when to even use it. The most difficult thing for me to accomplish was adding an image. W3Schools didn’t go over the steps on how to insert an image, they just listed the format. I got the format correct, but wasn’t able to insert my image. That frustrated me.
After these lessons, I don’t think I could put HTML on my resume because in order to be proficient I would have to practice those skills and to constantly develop them, not learn them a couple of times. I don’t feel confident applying those skills on a real website, either. However, I do appreciate HTML and learning the inner workings of a website. I thank all coders, programmers, and engineers everywhere for all the hard work they do to keep us connected!