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Bare Bones Code

4 November 2014

When looking for instructions on how to accomplish something in Javascript I inevitably find that someone else has already found a solution. But when I try to figure out how they did it, all I see is a wall of sparsely documented code that seems like overkill for the problem I'm trying to solve.

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JavaScript Learning Curve

22 October 2014

I've dabbled in web development before. I've also dabbled in object oriented programming before. I'm a dabbler. After a brief reintroduction to HTML5 and CSS3 I was off and running, and within a couple of days I was impressing myself with what I could achieve. I fully expected JavaScript to go just as well, but it's proving to be a little hairier.

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Drowning in Bookmarks

16 October 2014

Six weeks into my WebDev course I am amazed at the volume of online resources available to me. It shouldn't be surprising that the web community has a web presence but the number of plugins, e-books, frameworks, code libraries, etc makes it hard to know what topic to pursue next.

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