And the penny drops

Ching Ching, the sound of javascript clicking into place is wonderful. (but have you noticed its only small change falling, the more valuable dollar coins are still on the brain-shelf out of reach.)

I am looking forward to next term actually doing real hands on work and developing more presentable skills. Most of this term has been directed into printing reams of paper to read, file and promptly forget.

Happy Winter Holidays
Cheers

Image: 'The news said the pound is falling again'
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how annoying

Not Happy

I really want to open my own web design company next year with multi-nationals as my first clients, and so I need all the technical methodologies and methodological technics I can get my hands on.
NOT!

I really really wanted to know about HTML, CSS, JavaScripting hands on stuff. If I was home schooling, right now I would probably be learning how to build my page with tables, and using page frames. So class room teaching is good news. Document subjects are not.

Cheers anyway
Image: 'untitled'
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Still Struggling

The despair of it all! I get things eventually, sometimes easy, sometimes I have to work at it.
But I am missing a synapse or two in my logic thinking while dealing with JavaScript.




I get it, I go away, and it all goes into a black hole, and I have to work at getting it again. Like a junk yard, I know I saw the thingymabobit just here a moment ago, where did it go?

image from FlickrCC "Black Hole 1603" http://www.flickr.com/photos/31358653@N00/207548891

May the Algorithms be with you

Sounds like a religious sect.

I'm an Algorist, and believe in the Algorithmic Trinity:
The Almighty Sequence , the Great Selection, and the Holy Repetition.
May the brackets obey you.

After 30 years of Maths, and yes I do use pythag's often enough to refute the teacher saying "as if we really need it in real life...." (Electrical maths is based on the power triangle and trig) I have to get out of thinking algebraically and get my head into the parsing phrases, and follow those loops! What-If-Else? huh? In Maths and stuff its always been If-Then.

Its going to be a struggle to shake of auto pilot.

Image: 'FSM 5206'
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How Ordinary

Thanks Peter, Anybody reading this would think that I didn't have a life!

Firstly, I need more time! Working, Family, Dodging kangaroos, blah blah whine winge blah.

The complete course entails more than I expected, despite my first phone conversation when I enquired niavely if I could attend successfully just one day a week, and home school the rest, and I was assured by a "yeah". That was very cheeky of you!

I find that it is very challenging, the subject moves along quickly some days, but with all the resources available, any issues can be re-visited at home.

Your blog is exetremely useful as a reference to past links, and the fact that if I miss any classes I can brush up before next class.

And squeezed this one in last minute

G'day

I can't do assignments in class time, got to have coffee to do an assignment, and no Coffee allowed in class, ya know dat.

Very helpful lesson in css template from blueprint, It is something useful to play around with . Now that assignment 1 is committed to the server, I can look at fixing up this blogspot as it really is a fugly presentation to look at.

First priority is to catch up on sleep (really late nights tweaking pages)and give my eyes a rest as they are seeing the real world in pixelated 3D vision right now.

Happy Holidays Guys

Too Much, Too Late

Just when I think I am on top of my assignment, less then 2 weeks to go I may be able to fluff it enough, then you throw in a validation lesson!
Nasty fact learn't: just 'cause it worked in the browser doesn't mean it passes.

Now I got to work harder and scratch more hair while I continuously cut&paste/upload/check/@#%^*swear/change/deload/upload/change/cut&paste/
more@#*&^%#swearing/and do it again, over & over & over.

And Yes!! The complete satisfaction when the little blue icon is MINE at last!!!!
Ahhh, that makes it worth it...


Incidental note: Half hour of tutoring is worth 4 hours of equivalent reading, and as much as I would like to explore PMOG further, I ain't got the time right now, but perhaps in the holidays I could come back as something better than a stoat...