Sites with JavaScript Exercises

Practise, practise, practise

You can read HTML, CSS and Javascript all you want, but the only way to really get it, is to write code.

Here is a list of sites that I found...

• JavaScript - Exercises, Practice, Solution
• A bunch of sites with free books
• Mozilla site
• Khan Academy
• Free code camp
• Great sandbox CSS
• Code Academy
• Another sandbox example CSS
• Article News Card CSS
• Simple Flat Menu CSS
• A nice sexy outline of lessons.

When you are all done, it's time to take the online quizzes

• HTML/CSS and JavaScript online test
• Top 20 Web Developer Interview Questions and Answers (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and DevTools
• Top 70 CSS Interview Questions and Answers
• JavaScript interview questions
• JavaScript Quiz Test
• JavaScript Quiz Test 2
• Top 50 CSS & CSS3 Interview Questions & Answers
• Top 45 SEO Interview Questions & Answers
• Top 40 Behavioral Interview Questions With Answers
• https://www.thebalance.com/top-interview-questions-and-best-answers-2061225

Is there any value in people who cannot write JavaScript?

I found this article so true, there seems to be a hiring bias today on people who don't code Javascript.

Borrowed from Mandy Michael for Medium.com

click on the link to read the full article.

"To me, this could easily be interpreted as, “Is there any value in people who cannot write JavaScript?”, based on some comments from the audience after, this seemed to be how many understood question.

I want to be very clear and upfront: this is not a CSS vs JS post. If you are looking for another one of those, stop reading this now. This post is not about something being better, it’s about people and expectations.

So, we asked the audience if they hire people who just write CSS and HTML. No-one put their hand up. And I, for one, was disappointed.

I understand the desire to have people who can do a lot of things. What I don’t understand is why it’s okay if you can “just write JS”, but somehow you’re not good enough if you “just write HTML and CSS”.

When every new website on the internet has perfect, semantic, accessible HTML and exceptionally executed, accessible CSS that works on every device and browser, then you can tell me that these languages are not valuable on their own. Until then we need to stop devaluing CSS and HTML.

Just to be clear, I am not putting down JavaScript. I love JavaScript. I love all the awesome things ES6 provides us. It’s also creating very exciting and awesome opportunities in the styling space. If all you do in your job is write JS, that is fantastic and you are awesome, just like all the people that write CSS or have a focus in a particular area like accessibility, SVG, animation etc.

What I am very concerned about is that many still don’t see value in being skilled in CSS & HTML. This attitude is something I just don’t understand. All of us working together provide value in our industry. HTML & CSS are very important pieces of this puzzle, and I (perhaps naively) thought we had evolved to a point where we were starting to appreciate the challenges each of us face in our different areas of expertise. I guess I was wrong because this attitude is still clearly still prevalent."...

borrowed from the link above...

Check out these cool animated logos

New web trend animated logos.

I am the greatest!

Happy new year!

This is going to be a great year for me. I will achieve my goals, realize my dreams.

I am the a JavaScript Ninja!

Keeping this Ted video here for myself. I need to hear this daily.

The skill of self confidence | Dr. Ivan Joseph | TEDxRyersonU

Why art is important | Katerina Gregos | TEDxGhent

This weeks inspiring Ted video, What is Art?

100 Days Of Code Challenge

My goal for 2018 is to become a great coder, like everything else it takes a lot of practise. I am joining the 100 Days Of Code Challenge starting January 2018 exciting!!!!

Health Benefits of Fennel

I know this is really random, every once in a while I will find an article that I really like, and would like to keep for future reference. I am glad to learn all this, I cook with fennel daily. This is borrowed from the diet promise blog

Fennel's small yellow umbel's seem to dance in the breeze off the coast of the Mediterranean. The plant is only native in that part of the world but now grows in most places as a naturalized herb. In early Greek history fennel was widely used as a weight control product. British herbalist Culpeper wrote fennel plant "are much used in drink or broth to make people lean that are too fat". Before you run out to the store to buy fennel seed it has not been studied to see if it actually has any appetite suppressant qualities to it.

All parts of the fennel plant are considered safe for human consumption and it is widely used in culinary dishes for a nutty flavoring. Fennel tea has a soothing effect on the stomach, making it widely used for a multitude of digestion issues. In fact, many herbalist will recommend that fennel be used along with flax seed as part of a daily regime to a healthy body. Due to the nutty flavoring it suits itself well to be sprinkled on salads and soups for an easy way to add fennel to your diet.

The only known side effect of fennel being ingested is with nursing mothers. It is believed it will help increase the flow of milk when nursing. It has been used in this way since the days of Hippocrates and Dioscorides. They recommended that nursing mothers chew on the seeds as you would celery to keep the flow of milk progressing as the baby required more milk. It was also believed during the medieval time that fennel would help break up kidney stones, cure the hiccups, prevent gout and nausea, clear the liver and lungs of mucus, and was an antidote to poisonous mushrooms.

Fennel tea water was used to help the digestive systems of infants, especially colicky ones. It was brewed and steeped for 20 minutes then strained and allowed to cool to a room temperature. Mothers of infants with colic may wish to try the fennel water in a bottle during periods of extreme gas and digestive problems.

The tea is also thought to expel worms. The tea is suggested to drink one cup every four hours to expel the parasite. It is also used as a gargle to freshen breath and as an eye wash to clear up many forms of eye irritants.

Learning Javascript

It's been over 10 years since I learnt Javascript, I basically took a very 101 semester back in the days when alerts were everywhere lol. Working on Math Expressions today, I keep coming up with excuses to skip the lesson. I gave myself a whole body massage with coconut oil, was awesome! I have actually never massaged my thunder thighs lol. Then I decided I needed a green smoothie then after that I did sit ups I hate doing sit ups! I get dizzy and nauseous, this was all part of procrastinating... then I spent time of facebook, OK enough already JUST DO IT!. The struggle is real ya'll! I have to do this, must do it! DO IT! DO IT!

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/understanding-syntax-and-code-structure-in-javascript

Start with Understanding Syntax and Code Structure in JavaScript

"Eleven Hints for Life"

1. It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return. But what is more painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let that person know how you feel.


2. A sad thing in life is when you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the end that it was never meant to be and you just have to let go.


3. The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.


4. It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.


5. It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone-but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.


6. Don't go for looks, they can deceive. Don't go for wealth, even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright.


7. Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go, be what you want to be. Because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.


8. Always put yourself in the other's shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the person too.


9. A careless word may kindle strife. A cruel word may wreck a life. A timely word may level stress. But a loving word may heal and bless.


10. The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.


11. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, ends with a tear. When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're the one smiling and everyone around you is crying.

- Unknown

Goals for 2018

Learn this skills!

Angular.js
Node.js
Backbone
Ember

Best way to learn Javascript http://www.asmarterwaytolearn.com/js