labs

lab 1: html/css

This is my first lab demonstrating the HTML and CSS skills that I have learned. I have some experience in both HTML and CSS. They were the first two languages I taught myself, when I was super young (middle school?). I would help people with their MySpace profiles, and create custom designs for message board layouts.

Some of the advanced techniques I used include positioning, floating, and importing Google fonts.

When I was working on this assignment, it helped me become more confident in starting my code from scratch. I also played around with different tutorials from w3schools.com, and I can utilize those techniques in other labs. I liked how by working on this assignment, I realized that I needed to brush up on the differences between padding, margins, etc. and need to ask for clarification about a few other topics to make sure I'm coding in the most concise way possible. This assignment provided a lot of freedom to explore and be creative without it being stress-inducing.

lab 3: javascript

This lab was challenging for me. I definitely learned a big lesson about staying consistent with variable names, and the need for comments so that I don't confuse myself when I stop and start working.

In general, I enjoy the opportunity to be creative and learning the some more advanced vanilla javascript, but I'm excited to be able to create more advanced programs with material we learn in the future.

In the future, I want to make sure I'm more organized with my code by creating separate javascript files and using comments more. I also want to ask more questions if I'm stuck regarding the efficiency of my program, so that I'm not picking up any bad habits.

lab 5: web api/ajax

I'm glad I started this lab as early as possible. This is because it took me the longest out of all of my labs. I created a more basic UI for myself eventually because I was confusing myself between all of my CSS and C# files, which definitely helped. Writing the API was tough, but knowledge of SQL like what we learned in previous classes made it easier. I had to reference back to some SQL statements to make sure I was using them correctly.