Yesterday my flight from Costa Rica landed in Sacramento. Today, I’m back at the desk writing CSS with my brand new keyboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
For the second half of Week 3 and the beginning of Week 4, I was not thinking about web development as I walked up and down the beaches of Guanacaste. (Did you know you can pay with USD at most places in Costa Rica?) I was lucky enough to have time to complete most of my assignments prior to my departure. Now, I’m in the process of catching up on a few stragglers and preparing for Week 5. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For the first part of this class, I was more than a little concerned that I’d lost most of my coding abilities over winter break. Now that we’re a few weeks in, I’ve found myself back in the flow of things. I still have to google the occasional CSS property, however, but usually only to remember the name (looking at you, justify-content<\/em>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Just a month or two ago, it felt like I was opening a new search tab every few minutes as I struggled through my HTML and CSS files. Web dev was a frustrating, exhausting ordeal. Now, I’m finding it much easier to write my code correctly from the start. I finally feel like I have a strong understand of flexbox and semantic HTML. I will definitely need more practice, but I can now compare my abilities then and now and see the progress I’m making. Web dev is now an exciting, stimulating adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n