As I dip my fingers (gently) into the sea of computer programming, I have uncovered decades-old frustration linked to grade school math class. I never quite understood the basic math concept--that problems were abstract ways of thinking about moving units around. I always treated arithmetic like it was a passage of poetry I had to commit to memory. I didn't fully understand the foundation. Moving on to more complicated levels of math left me feeling lost and irritated. Because computer programming relies on math to function, similarly it builds on previous algorithms and formulas.
I felt quite frustrated using Google Page Creator because in its effort to be user friendly, it hid all of the html and CSS language. I felt lost because I didn't understand what the program was doing for me.
Inspired by my friend kinaka49, I decided if I were ever going to be able to understand programming, I was going to have to learn how to make a website from scratch like she did. She checked out some books from the library, read a few tutorials from W3C and taught her own damn self. How punk is that? I did the same and under the virtual tutelage of Dave Raggett, I made a simple site using TextEdit. What follows is an excerpt from Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, formatted to recreate the look and feel of an early edition of this work. Confession: I don't find its 19th century look too convincing and I don't expect my readers to either. Baby steps people:
Daxsu's Old-timey "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"
photo from Bold as Love
1 comment:
Thanks for the shout-out! But from the very beginning of this class I said that you were techie inspiration. So I give a Kudos to you as well! We have survived the tech wave and are more tech advance from it!
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