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May Stanley
4,182 PointsI'm learning CSS basics and feeling unmotivated all of the sudden.
I cannot keep up my momentum as usual. It's sometimes hard to just following along the video with the workspace. The instruction will change some value and properties and deleted at some point and when I follow every changes he made, it slows me down. What is the best way to learn? should I just watch the video and not follow along every steps?
2 Answers
Timo J.
Courses Plus Student 20,919 PointsWhat I do sometimes is to follow the entire course without the workspace just watching and understanding the concept and rules. After I watch a second time with the workspace and for it work very well as I know what will happen I'm faster to execute stuff and can anticipate any change even if it's not mentionned.
Hope this help
Luc de Brouwer
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 17,939 PointsWhat you could do is the following, first of all try to do what Timo J. stated above here. Second, if you get bored of the videos/workspace I can highly recommend that you download a text editor like notepad++ or atom and start making your own web pages with the knowledge you have and try to learn CSS that way.
You can use www.w3schools. as a reference for the possible tags in HTML & properties in CSS. Try building simple things like a photo gallery, a page about yourself, a simple header with some heading tags and try to style them etc.
May Stanley
4,182 PointsThank you so much Luc!! I'm going to try. This is a practical way of learning. Cool idea.
Luc de Brouwer
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 17,939 PointsYou're welcome :). If you ever need some motivational advise or tips and tricks you can contact me :)
May Stanley
4,182 PointsMay Stanley
4,182 PointsHey thank you Timo, I should try the same!
Timo J.
Courses Plus Student 20,919 PointsTimo J.
Courses Plus Student 20,919 PointsYou are very welcome May! Luc is right as well. Making your own stuff and practice is the best way to learn in general. What I said above was just to improve your treehouse learning. Try to start by a subject you really love. traveling or cooking anyway. Find an existing web page you like and try to copy the design with your CSS knowledge. If your are blocked come here and ask questions. Finally never and I repeat never never give up. ;)