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Great chat with Devon on his new podcast DEVCODER TV

sheriffderek — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 00:55:07 +0000

I've been following Devon's journey for a while while I lurk around Career Karma.

When I heard he was starting a podcast, I reached out - and guess what! I got to be the first guest.

It was really nice to finally meet the real human and not just the avatar - and I think we had a great talk / and that you'd like it.

@sherifferek Talks with Devon Curtis on DEVCODER TV: The Mindset of Becoming a Developer Listen here!

: )

The Odin Project: Landing page: walk-through

sheriffderek — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 01:17:32 +0000

There is a never-ending supply of “free” educational materials.

But how do you know if they are “good” - if you don't know that much about the subject yet?

Well, one way - is to see the final product.

Today, I'd like to talk about TOP's landing page project from their fundamentals course.

Here are some of the outcomes:

To be fair, They say:

“Do not worry about making your project look nice on a mobile device. We’ll learn that later.”

But in a world where 80% of traffic is on a small screen, we feel like this is starting newcomers off on the wrong foot. HTML and CSS are better than ever and learning from a small-screen-first approach has massive benefits beyond just the responsive layout bits. (Did I just turn English for a minute?)

It's much more difficult to undo mental models later - than to just get them right in the first place.

You can check out the whole lesson/project outline.

(it has the mockup etc.)

If you want a challenge, give it a shot!

and when you're done, you can see my take on it:

If you have any thoughts about this, we'd love to hear them. Have you gone through the TOP foundation course? Did we miss anything? We can splice in any of your suggestions. : )

I hope you find it helpful.

Hey - and - if you feel like doing some flexbox challenges: we have some "free" (haha) ones right here: https://perpetual.education/exercises/flexbox-part-1

"Should I learn React?"

sheriffderek — Sun, 16 May 2021 19:37:19 +0000

If you're asking this question...

Then the answer is no. Why?

When you know for sure what wall you've hit, what needs to happen, what tool makes that happen, and you understand the tech debt you'll incur, then (and only then) - should you even consider learning it. That goes for anything.

Should you learn CSS Grid?

(If you're asking... then - no)

Should you learn Rails?

(If you're asking... then - no)

Would you like to learn "All the things" in order of importance and skip all of the "Should I..." and all the youtube videos and late nights and tutorials?

Check out what we're doing at Perpetual Dot Education.

That boot camp might be lying to you

sheriffderek — Thu, 06 May 2021 22:22:42 +0000

Have you noticed that ALL of the boot camps get the "Best Boot Camp" award - in some shape or form?

Had you noticed that they almost all get 5/5 scores? Can they really ALL be the best. Well, if you didn't notice that - then you definitely didn't notice all of the really sneaky stuff.

Before you fall into the high-pressure sales trap, take a second look. Just because they are lying to you doesn't mean you have to lie to yourself.

Also - if anyone needs some fake awards, we have Photoshop.

Don the Developer interviews ME about Perpetual Education

sheriffderek — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 02:29:03 +0000

We will make a detailed post about this later… but - in the hopes that we can help build some momentum for Don, here’s the link - and we'll circle back around.

Interesting? Let's talk about it!

My first css-tricks article

sheriffderek — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 20:55:59 +0000

Coming full circle

In 2010, I started to learn web development. I was 29 years old. You can read the whole story here if you want.

I watched two courses on lynda.com and one of those courses was Chris Coyier's 'WordPress' course.

Who knew what an effect it would have on me

Chris worked through the business goals, and the assets, and the planning, and build out the whole thing in HTML first. Then he went over the whole PHP system (which was just mindblowing for me) - and step by step he builds a theme from scratch. (well you know... as scratch as you can - there being a framework and all)

I had NO idea how "web 2.0" worked... or what LAMP or MAMP was. I had no idea what PHP was... or how templates worked or what "dynamic" meant. And he did it all while working with best practices and standards - and well, he did a great job.

I loved reading his blog at css-tricks

CSS was a lot more quirky back then! and it was a lifesaver.

These days, CSS-tricks is about A LOT more than just CSS.

and specifically today! They've published my article On Type Patterns and Style Guides. It's about typography and CSS but it's really about breaking down the barriers between "creatives" and "coders."

If you like CSS and typography - or have ever had a hard time managing type styles in large projects - or you like live-style guides and styletil.es ~ Then please give her a read and let me know your thoughts!

https://css-tricks.com/on-type-patterns-and-style-guides