Coding Refreshers with W3Schools
Last week I explained how I was going through the process of learning Java to add into the languages I can work with soon enough. Well while learning Java or a new language is great of course, it’s always good to go back to the languages you do know and just get yourself refreshed on them or let’s say your working on a project and you forget a certain method within that language your working on or forgetting a keyword that belongs in your code, I found the perfect site that can give you that reference or refresher that you need. That site is W3Schools.
W3Schools is an online web tutorial site on almost every coding language you can think of and gives you multiple ways to help you study up on a language, test yourself within that language or even give you examples or references within that language in case you forget things. I have used this site in the past when I was in college trying to learn more on HTML/CSS when I was working on photoshop projects. The site was alot newer then and wasn’t as extensive but I reconnected with the site while reworking on my final project as you guys know and just wanted to work on some of my css. As i’m using styled components through react for the stying of my page it does still use a bit of css styles in it but I wanted to see what else I can add to the site and found W3Schools has a reference page now.
The reference page is pretty straight forward, everything is alphabetically in order and easy for you to find as well with what each reference does, also on the side it’s categorized so if your looking for a certain function or selectors that you can add to your css page it’ll give you a list of what you can add to your projects. Another thing I found that was cool about the site that I always used for reference when working on css is that it always had a color picker which helped you find the color code you need when adding to your css page, you click on a color you like or want, if you need it to be a little darker or lighter you can change it and at the end it’ll give you that specific color code so you can copy and paste it in your code.
Another new feature that I find pretty cool is their new template page that you can add to your very own site or use it as an example to get an idea of how you’d want your very own site. You can demo the site to see how everything works within it or click try it yourself to see the code behind it so again you can either add it to your very own site or see exactly how bit’s and pieces of the site is coded so you can add those features in your own style or way of formatting.
