Best way to go about practicing skills?

A great way to practice is to apply the knowledge that you already know into something that you can make and have fun creating. For example, maybe make a website for yourself or someone you know. This will help you put the knowledge that you are gaining into good use and the more you do this the easier it will become.

If you have any other questions feel free to leave a comment down below and I shall try and help you out further!

Have a good day!

-Luke

Like Luke said, just make something. I was running into the same problem and I had already created and paid for a website for my band during the "how to build a website" project and don't really need my own website for any other reasons. I can't afford hosting every time I want to practice so I decided to make a Craigslist ad offering to make a free website for someone as long as they pay for the hosting. They get an (almost) free website and I get to practice and perfect my skills. Win/win.

I guess my concern is that if I just go and make a simple website for a friend, that's no guarantee that I'll need to incorporate any of the more complex skills I'll need to understand once I'm in the field. I can still build a website while avoiding a good number of the concepts described in the Sass tutorial, there are CSS skills I would use building a site for myself, and others that I might not use at all--but would still need to know in a professional setting. I'd like something that can help me to define the line between someone who gets the general concept of CSS and Sass, and someone who knows enough that they won't look like a fool on the job.

I usually suggest people make CSS widgets, that's where most of the advanced CSS skill comes in.

Try and re-create these examples without looking at the code:

http://codepen.io/collection/ehqoD/

Hi Jeremy Barbe,

Hopefully this blog post on How to Remember the Code You’re Learning also helps. :)