Self-Taught Developer Journal, Day 4: C, CSS, Reminders to Myself, and Code Buddies

Today I learned....

C

Understanding character input and outputs is harder than I thought. I am still on Chapter 1 of The C Programming Language and I am on the section going over programs for processing character data. I was doing an exercises for line counts and got stuck on a few. I marked the parts I am confused about to return to at a later time.

CSS

• Attribute Selector matches elements based on the presence or value of a given attribute. They are not commonly used.

  input[type="password"] {
      color: green;
  }
  

• Pseudo Elements is a keyword added to a selector that lets you style a specific part of the selected element(s)

  p::first-line {
      color: purple;
  }
  

• Pseudo Classes vs Elements

  • Pseudo Classes styles based on the states of the elements.
  • Pseudo Elements style specific parts of an element(s).

• CSS Cascade order of elements being declared matter. Later elements are overwritten as you go further down the style sheet.

• Specificity is how the browser decides which rules to apply when multiple rules could apply to the same element. The more specific selector wins.

  • Specificity Selector Order:
    • ID > Class > Element
    • Specificity Calculator

• Inline Styles and Important

  • Inline styles styles a single element using the "style" attribute in the HTML document. It's specificity wins over ID, but is avoided because it can lead to confusion when using a style sheet.
  • Important, or the important exception, overrides any other declaration and is considered bad practice.

• Inheritance

  • Styles will be inherited from parent elements
  • Some elements don't inherit by default, but you can explicitly add "inherit" to those elements add that behavior if they are able to be inheritable.

Reminder Resources to Myself

I was having a tough time yesterday so I made some resources for myself for when I feel self-doubt again. Their stories have helped me inspire me to keep going:

• How To Become a Self-taught Developer (Advice and Stories From Actual Self-taught Developers)
• 10 Tips For New Self-Taught Developers In Learning To Code - Advice From A Fellow Self-Taught Developer by Ayu Adiati
• Chris Sean
• Ann Adaya
  • A quote from one of her articles I was inspired by, "Life is too short to settle to things that are safe, that doesn’t make you get up every morning inspired and fulfilled. I hope you choose the life that makes you feel alive, that makes you get up in the morning. I hope you will find the courage to fight for the life that you want."

I Joined Code Buddies!

• I stumbled on them looking through this repo online: https://github.com/sophi-li/OKRs-self-learning

Resources:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS
The Web Developer Bootcamp 2022 by Colt Steele

Day 3: https://dev.to/jennifer_tieu/self-taught-developer-journey-day-3-1ofg
Please refer to Starting My Self-Taught Developer Journey for context.