beginner-tips

• 8 Feb 2019
• 1 min read

I’ve been doing a web development course for a few months and today I made my first thing that actually does something. Nothing amazing mind…

• 6 Feb 2019
• 1 min read

JavaScript is responsible for the behaviour of your website/app. At the heart of affecting the behaviour of the page is listening for user…

• 4 Feb 2019
• 1 min read

Playing with the DOM is all about adding interactivity to your page. The DOM (Document Object Model) is the interface between your JavaScript…

• 2 Feb 2019
• 2 min read

I've recently been attempting to contribute to some open-source GitHub projects with varying degrees of success. One thing that's extremely…

• 1 Feb 2019
• 1 min read

So you’ve got your HTML and CSS sorted and you’ve started to drop in some customs scripts to make things a bit interactive. To keep things in…

• 31 Jan 2019
• 1 min read

When I was first learning to code, something that came up a lot was to always comment your code. Code comments have value, but despite what my…

• 30 Jan 2019
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The concept of DRY code is simple, Don’t Repeat Yourself. So if you look at some code you’ve just written and notice it’s looking a bit moist,…

• 29 Jan 2019
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In JavaScript not all comparisons are created equal... see what I did there. Let’s say we’re comparing two values like this: The use of “==“…

• 28 Jan 2019
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Part of developing (and certainly learning to develop) is creating code, commenting it out, and creating a better version. As you get into a…

• 25 Jan 2019
• 1 min read

Back in the day, I used to have this habit of declaring all of my variables at the top of the file. My thinking at the time was it would keep…