Re:Introduction to CSS - CSS/CSS3 Course - Part 1
by eslachance on Thursday August 30, 2012 @01:03PM
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To me, this is a good example of how not to do an online video-based course.
- Staring 2 minutes at HTML code that doesn't move while hearing a disembodied voice is a very bad start.
- Detailed, technical information with no visual cues to help support it. For example, explaining a separate stylesheet file (which he call "style PAGE", actually), with only the mouse cursor waving around on the screen.
- Too many non-useful details at first (non-supported features, difference in versions, etc.
- So Notepad isn't good enough, and the next step is Visual Studio? Geeze, try Notepad++ first, maybe?
- 6 minutes to get to actual HTML creation, almost 10 minutes to type in the first CSS code.
- Spending half a minute calling a CSS property "A key-value pair separated by a semi-colon", repeating it 3 times. What is this, kindergarden for programmers?
All in all, I stopped watching after 12 minutes, having learned more about this guy's bias towards Visual Studio than about CSS (or HTML for that matter).
Re:Introduction to CSS - CSS/CSS3 Course - Part 1
by prophetjohn on Thursday August 30, 2012 @03:38PM
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While we're on the topic, though, what are some resources that are good for experienced programmers to really learn the semantics and best practices of CSS? All of the information I tend to find is either more focused at getting absolute beginners started or on the actual design aspect and not so much the mechanics.
Basically, I'm hopeless to ever actually design something beautiful, but if something beautiful is shown to me, I'd like to be able to replicate it with CSS and not have to $(document).ready() the crap out of it because of my poor understanding of CSS.
Re:Introduction to CSS - CSS/CSS3 Course - Part 1
by madmikey on Thursday August 30, 2012 @01:15PM
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I went through the JS tutorials as well,
i guess this is more focused on Non-English students and students who have never done programming ever in their life.
- Staring 2 minutes at HTML code that doesn't move while hearing a disembodied voice is a very bad start.
- Detailed, technical information with no visual cues to help support it. For example, explaining a separate stylesheet file (which he call "style PAGE", actually), with only the mouse cursor waving around on the screen.
- Too many non-useful details at first (non-supported features, difference in versions, etc.
- So Notepad isn't good enough, and the next step is Visual Studio? Geeze, try Notepad++ first, maybe?
- 6 minutes to get to actual HTML creation, almost 10 minutes to type in the first CSS code.
- Spending half a minute calling a CSS property "A key-value pair separated by a semi-colon", repeating it 3 times. What is this, kindergarden for programmers?
All in all, I stopped watching after 12 minutes, having learned more about this guy's bias towards Visual Studio than about CSS (or HTML for that matter).
Edit: This video was well done and pleasant to watch.
Basically, I'm hopeless to ever actually design something beautiful, but if something beautiful is shown to me, I'd like to be able to replicate it with CSS and not have to $(document).ready() the crap out of it because of my poor understanding of CSS.
http://www.amazon.com/CSS-Missing-David-Sawyer-McFarland/dp/...