Re:It’s 1997 and you want to build a website
by matsemann on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @01:39PM
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Yeah, for me being a noob it was hard to learn as I didn't know what and where to start. Not much material, at least not in my native language and suitable for a kid. So I learned by brute-force. I applied each and every auto-complete CSS-statement and looked what it did. I didn't know or think of there actually being a reference somewhere online. But testing them, I found the "cool" ones (especially border style, applied it to everything!) and could use them.
I think this is more or less an argument in favor of tools that are helpful to the developer, like feature rich IDEs with parameter hints and autocomplete/suggestions, text editors with plugins that give you a similar experience or even a little bit of AI help.
Some people have the attitude that you might want to learn a language/framework with just a text editor to know the internals, but I think that if you want results fast and focus on solving problems (getting the site up and running) quickly, then tools like these are invaluable!