Things I Have Learned at Bloc.io

I have learned a good number of things at Bloc.io so far. Here are some of the things that I have learned:

1. HTML

• Proper html language and best practices (i.e., use paragraph tags <p> instead of the line break tags <br> to create margins between paragraphs).
• Design and code for Accessibility in order to cover all users including those with screen readers.
• How to create forms, tables, and more in HTML.
• Every HTML file has a head and a body!

2. CSS

• CSS helps describe how HTML elements should be displayed on the screen.
• There are three different versions of CSS styling: inline, internal, and external. External is probably the method of CSS styling I would use the most since it would be just changing one file (that will affect most or the entire website).
• Use properties and their values to adjust the style of selectors (i.e., tag, ID, class).

3. CSS Frameworks

• There are three top Frameworks: Bootstrap, Foundation, and Material Design.
• Bootstrap is the most commonly used framework within the community due to longer and continuing development as well as community support.
• Frameworks are there to help developers develop faster by giving them a starting point of files and folders of standardized code.

3. Tools of the Trade

• We need certain tools to develop:
  • Operating System (i.e., macOS, Windows, Linux)
  • Web Browser (i.e, Chrome)
  • Text editor (i.e., Atom)
  • Terminal

4. Command Line

• Learned how to use commands in the shell prompt in the Terminal to run programs, interact with the OS, write scripts, etc.
• This is also where Git will be used primarily as well.
• Learned some basics as to how to adjust the command line environment via nano.

4. Git

• Github is a distributed version control system that is commonly used for commercial development.
• Git allows developers to see a timeline of their changes and progressions on their development project.
• Git is primarily interacted with through the Terminal and Github by using Git commands within a Git repository.
• Learning how to interact with Github using the git commands.

And there is a bunch more I am still planning on learning!