Day Four - The Struggle is Real

So our homework for the night consisted of getting an HTML file and a CSS file along with a screenshot of the webpage. We were told NOT to update the HTML file but do everything in CSS. Sure. I hit a problem because I couldn't get the images to connect to CSS so I "sort of" cheated so that I could actually do the assignment.  More on the problem I experiences in struggles/understood.

Struggles: I hit a wall with the homework assignment last night. I hit it hard. I got super frustrated over one single line of code. For whatever reason I could not for the life of me figure out how to get a single line of code to turn bold.

I mean one line I just couldn't get. There was no singular selector I could use that just made me mad. If I could only say "use this class and these two siblings I'll get it". I reached out to the group and explained and nothing. Someone looked at my code and they offered some advice but that wasn't helpful. But after explaining it so many times it finally clicked that I was essentially saying "if I do this it affects all of this" over and over and over again that it clicked. It. Affects. The. Rest. So instead I just put the code at the top and let CSS precedence take place. Then went back and cleaned up one line of code that I had adjusted by itself. Problem solved.

Understood: I picked up some of the design elements pretty quickly and for the most part I had the items mostly done in like an hour. So I felt pretty strong about that.
Looking forward to: Using flexbox in practice.

I also understood HOW I react to these frustrations and what I need to get out of the mindset of a funk of being frustrated. So that's honestly the biggest takeaway.


Today we'll cover flexbox more in practice and actual use so that'll be nice.

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