First challenge with JavaScript
Today @AustinCodingAcademy we took our first look at coding in JavaScript. We have mainly focused on HTML and CSS and learning JavaScript is a lot of fun. It has much more processing power than CSS. It allows you to do logic statements and processing of data. Where CSS is mainly for the look and feel of your web page.
We are learning about the DOM and all the different methods it has in it. I think of them as prepackaged functions, just waiting for me to learn how to use. I have already “Googled” many and started trying them out. Seems like there is an infinite amount of things that can be done and you must learn to know what is out there and then look up the syntax to use them.
So far the most difficult item for me, has been learning how to use some of the different compiler tools. They seem easy once you know them, but getting there took lots of learning by doing.
Our code projects this week incorporated Event Listeners, which is very exciting, because it allows you to do things once the user does something in the user interface. For example if they enter an item into a form on your site, you can then do something with that data once they leave the box. In the code you can program to look (or listen) for that event then process. I am also doing this in C# where I made my first all text game. You display instructions then you “listen” for different keys (such as the up arrow, or a number key) and that tells the game what to do next. This will be very important as I learn to program interactive training.
So far coding has been great. I started a parallel path learning Unity & C Sharpe. My goal is to build interactive training modules and so far I have found that it just takes knowing what is out there and you can learn it. I would encourage anyone interest to learn. @AustinCodingAcademy has been great with a easy to follow format, that teaches you how to learn on your own, but with great support. I am starting to see a path to what it takes to develop the type of training I am looking to develop.
