Falling behind?

Here is my experience and advice. Firstly I do not follow along with the tutorials so have never bothered to build the 'Smells Like Bakin' Site. I take the following approach.

I will watch through section one of a course and do the quiz's and then think about what they were showing me and practise that on a nonsense project just to see if I can do what they were asking of themselves in the video for example say the video is advanced selectors I may build the following

    <ul>
        <li>Item</li>
        <li>Item</li>
        <li>Item</li>
        <li>Item</li>
     </ul>

Then to practise some of these advanced selectors in CSS I may do this

    li:last-child { color: red; }
    li:nth-child(even) { font-weight: bold; }

And so on for all the stuff they were trying to show me, then to take it further and make sure it sticks its all about repetition "Use it or lose it" is a term used for the way the body maintains knowledge whether that be information or muscle movements. So I research everything on the official sites so W3C for CSS and HTML. Read articles, from CSS-tricks, smashing magazine, explore codepen and pick apart peoples designs. Look into a program called Anki (not the awesome iOS game) but the falshcards and they work off space repetition so say you didnt know hola = hello in Spanish and Anki shows it to you and then the answer and you say I didnt know. It will then show you again in a min or so and depending on how easy you remember it will work out when to show you again to eventually etch it into your long term memory.

Also watch the videos again and again and you will be doing spaced repetition without realising. I have done with WordPress and RoR as something kept going wrong and I would have to restart and do all the stuff I had already done again and again and again lol.

But the key is to experiment by doing, if you are trying to achieve a certain look with CSS and it isn't happening then by all means ask, people are more than willing to assist as long as you show you understand what your trying to achieve and can see what you have tried, then most will point you in the right direction to explore again and experiment. Helps to have a desire to learn also and then you will find yourself researching everything you can get your hands on.

Also just because you have all the videos at your fingertips you don't have to rush through them, don't move on until you do understand, this is one of the mistakes i made in the beginning.

Good Luck

Hi there, from my experience the best way to master this is:

1. taking notes

2. practice

3. repeat

4. practice

to the point , where you have it in your blood:) You will figure out when.:)

BR

Hi there, from my experience the best way to master this is:

1. taking notes

2. practice

3. repeat

4. practice

to the point , where you have it in your blood:) You will figure out when.:)

BR