Five weeks ago when we started this
course, I was a bit uneasy. I was thinking that the course was going to be a
true challenge. Fortunately, I do not feel that way any longer. It has been
interesting and exciting learning how to code web pages. I do not feel
overwhelmed, like I thought I would, and I am pretty confident in the various
skills we have learned thus far.
Another concern I had at the
beginning of this journey in Web Design, was the pace of the class. One friend
of mine had taken the course and warned me it was a very fast pace class. I
think the pace is actually well paced and I am able to keep up with all of the
labs in and out of the classroom. While sometimes I feel the book exercises are
rather time consuming, I see the benefits of working through them.
The hardest exercise in the first
five weeks was the very first book exercise, The Black Goose Bistro (http://www.cpp.edu/~amschonder/512/book/bistro/
). I feel this was the hardest just because it was the first time I was diving
into HTML and CSS. I repeatedly had to check to make sure each piece was
working and if I had made any errors when typing in the code. Now with the
confidence I have in coding, I could go back and do this exercise in a
heartbeat!
The most rewarding book exercise
that I completed in the first five weeks would have to be the contest entry
form, which can be seen here http://www.cpp.edu/~amschonder/512/book/contest.html
. This was the book exercise that took me the longest to complete, so once I
was able to finish it I was very satisfied with myself. It had many different
components that needed to go into it and I was nervous that I would not get it
right.
I am looking forward to the last
weeks of this course and what is to come. I feel that I will take away a lot
from it at the end of our 10 weeks.
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