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Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

I feel bad about it but I know I'm not wrong

Hi, I'm a shy guy that don't speak too well, social anxiety and that.. So today at class we were learning HTML, i know HTML for like 2years and CSS... And she tell us she don't know any HTML, just a little bit.... So she told u to open notepad.. And i opened codepen. Io and after dreamweaver and she told me no, use notepad as in the instructions, these are just the basics etc.. I'm giving here an advice. Then I told them to indent the code, and she, don't do that! It confuses them. I wrote opening tag doctype and she, don't put in html5 this is html. Like what?? She told us that html is where you write code and html5 you can style there. Not to mention they styled inline. And i know that stuff.. Why won't she take my advice since I know it and go on her stupid talk? Because she don't even know the difference between html and html5 and she tells me it's wrong and gives some tutorial somebody wrote 10years ago that's hell outdated on the html lol. I'm on it two years now.. And tomorrow I'm getting my first client as well... I coded html and css from 0 to 100 i know all that stuff why won't she take my advice... It's more confusing to have all code inline on the left than indented, it's more confusing and worse to have it in notepad than in text editor, html and html5 are pretty much the same..... Html5 has semantic tags like article footer, header etc... Plus it's better practice to put css in styles than inline... Show onee and then doni lt on the same page inline...

I feel bad, even tho i know om right and she's wrong... Why do I have this feeling.. How do I get rid of it? I even showed her codeacademy but she no... She's annojing and i feel bad why please reply something, I'm on phone so paragraph aren't here and jargon is in small.

2 Answers

Melissa Hill
Melissa Hill
8,241 Points

Yup, it definitely sounds frustrating. I think you have one thing to decide: is it more important to you to be right or to pass the class? Your teacher is obviously going to stick to the curriculum and isn't open to outside suggestion. If you absolutely need this class to proceed in your studies, the best you can do is follow the instructions and keep your head down. You'll have to do your learning and growing in your spare time. Maybe you can find someone else in the class who is also frustrated and go out for a beer after each class to vent :) best of luck that the class will pass swiftly for you!

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

But then she said thst if u get into it you might know more than me so u teach me. Do I allready know more specific could help, but no..: p

I'm wasting time there but because I want to have a paper yp go to uni where it will matter i have to.stay. The thong I'd thst I'm not lazy and whatever she gives ud, o finish it on the same day where's other fo it in two weeks or do. I just really hate her attitude.

Thank you: p :) hope you have a nice day

Melissa Hill
Melissa Hill
8,241 Points

It sounds like this may not be a good class for you. When teaching an introduction to HTML, the professor may be trying some specific tools (like notepad) and specific styles (like inline) to keep the first few steps easy for beginners. Then when these tools and styles start to show their limitations, she might choose to introduce a new tool or concept. I saw this a lot in the Web Design track on Treehouse; and when people are actually coding and seeing the limitations, it really dawns on you why other solutions might be better. By just starting people off with optimal solutions, they may never learn WHY they are optimal solutions. Then again, she may also just be following basic instructions and doesn't want to stray from the path. Either way, it sounds like you are not getting much out of the class right now. Maybe you can test out, or talk to the professor about doing independent work or just doing the tests, etc. Good luck!

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

This is how the code looks without indentation. Its much easier just to indent it fomr the beggining and apply best practice, because if im begginer coding this page here, i cant get my head around. Lets call HTML master :D

<?php get_header(); ?>

<!-- Home Page -->
<div class="main-wrapper">
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<!-- Latest Blogs -->
<div class="col-md-9" id="main-home">
<div class"col-md-12" id="archive-page">
<div class="container-padding-bg">
<h3>Search results for: news</h3>
<p><?php
global $wp_query;
echo $total_results = $wp_query->found_posts;
?> results found
</p>
<div class="search-post">
<ul class="search-ul">
<li>
<img class="pull-left" src="assets/img/pen.jpg ">
<div class="search-wrapper pull-left">
<h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
<div class="post-meta">
<ul class="post-meta-ul">
<li class="time">06 Feb</li>
<li class="divider">/</li>
<li><a href="">Freelancing, Lifestyle , Money</a></li>
<li class="divider">/</li>
<li>16 Comments</li>
</ul>
</div><!-- /post-meta -->
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam,
 quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo
consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse
cillum dolore eu fugiat nulorum. <a href="">Read more...</a></p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div><!-- /search-post -->
<p class="clear"></p>
<hr>
<div class="search-post">
<ul class="search-ul">
<li>
<img class="pull-left" src="assets/img/pen.jpg ">
<div class="search-wrapper pull-left">
<h1>News about FBI</h1>
<div class="post-meta">
<ul class="post-meta-ul">
<li class="time">06 Feb</li>
<li class="divider">/</li>
<li><a href="">Freelancing, Lifestyle , Money</a></li>
<li class="divider">/</li>
<li>16 Comments</li>
</ul>
</div><!-- /post-meta -->
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam,
quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo
consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse
cillum dolore eu fugiat nulorum. <a href="">Read more...</a></p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div><!-- /search-post -->
<p class="clear"></p>
<hr>
<div class="search-post">
<ul class="search-ul">
<li>
<img class="pull-left" src="assets/img/iceland.jpg ">
<div class="search-wrapper pull-left">
<h1>News about FBI</h1>
<div class="post-meta">
<ul class="post-meta-ul">
<li class="time">06 Feb</li>
<li class="divider">/</li>
<li><a href="">Freelancing, Lifestyle , Money</a></li>
<li class="divider">/</li>
<li>16 Comments</li>
</ul>
</div><!-- /post-meta -->
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam,
quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo
consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse
cillum dolore eu fugiat nulorum. <a href="">Read more...</a></p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div><!-- /search-post -->
<p class="clear"></p>
<hr>
<div class="search-post">
<ul class="search-ul">
<li>
<img class="pull-left" src="assets/img/ferr.jpg ">
<div class="search-wrapper pull-left">
<h1>News about FBI</h1>
<div class="post-meta">
<ul class="post-meta-ul">
<li class="time">06 Feb</li>
<li class="divider">/</li>
<li><a href="">Freelancing, Lifestyle , Money</a></li>
<li class="divider">/</li>
<li>16 Comments</li>
</ul>
</div><!-- /post-meta -->
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam,
quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo
consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse
cillum dolore eu fugiat nulorum. <a href="">Read more...</a></p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div><!-- /search-post -->
<p class="clear"></p>
<hr>
</div><!--/ container-padding-bg -->
</div><!--/ archive-page -->
</div><!-- /col-md-9 -->
<?php get_footer(); ?>
Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

The women siad she doesnt know about it . She said that HTML is easier than HTML5 and HTML5 is harder and HTML5 will get people confused and HTML5 uses CSS but HTML dont . You see what i maen? And i suppose walk around class and help people.

She said that you dont need to close the li tag , live it open. Where i told people to close the tag as soon as they open it .

Inline coding is cood sometimes, but thats bad practice not to mention it will make the load slower and wont make the page mutli page xd I know its basics, but what Nick taugh me, i understood it first time. He showed me how to do it, but then we put it in styles. Why do you ever want to code whole page wwith css inline even when learning? its good to know you can do it but thats bad practice, instead sytles in css would be ok

Im talking about Windows Deafult Notepad . Why dont take my advice and use at least codepen.io or at last result dreamweaver? its more user friendly and easier to see.. we live in 2015. And i show people how to open dreamweaver . Shes not a developer shes a teacher, that never did programming , nor HTML or CSS, she just knows some HTML basics and some CSS basics because thats what the UNIT is about. Its only one hour per week, but later i will have a unit for it, lol it takes me a day or less to put a website they want with css and bootstrap anywyas but if i ment to walk around class and hlep people, why not do it the proper way.. i taugh people before and gived advice to teachers in my previous college . Shes just pushing me down and making things akward for me and all that stuff..

And its easy to explaing such an easy thing in HTML why you dont put inline css , is dead simple for anyone to understand. And people will do it straight away because they will see the advantage.

I cant do anything, unfortunately i need to be in a class that i know most of the stuff just to get some paper that i need to spend 2 years and go to uni where i will have 3 years of experience when i join and u know.. i will have the basics and its all easy and i will be ahead of most people pluas treehouse as css tricks etc.. have best practices not to mention you can check w3school standards.. Im talking you as 3rd person? i dont mean actually you : p

I never did and i never will get much out of this class, its just, im independent learner in first place. I started it before they started to teach me, plus they are saying that you dont need to code if you want to go into web development, we will teach you how to use dreamweaver ( not to mention they probably cant use it ) and they said dreamweaver will be enough to get u job as a web developer. And im thinking like what.. if, you learn HTML and CSS first anyways before going into that.

She gaved some outdated tutorial some man she knows wrote that didnt had closing li tags, had inline divs old html and css and all.

And im like look codeacademy.com why wont they go there.. and she said, they already have this.. codeadacemy is 150% better than what they had . I believe this life. But if she asks for my help or advice, why bring me down ? if im telling her how it should be , and what can be done, why she sais im arguing.. btw im calm and i speak quiet so dont imagine me talking aloud or anything like that. Like i said i have social anxiety.mutism so i wont do that. But people like her, i told her what i did.

Also not to mention when i did it in one second , why did she tell me how to do it? not to put indentations and not to use codepen.io .. because im no different..

I love how she told us that she knows al this body language signals and she can recognise people with SA and SM while she strangely dont see i have it? while she told who knows HTML and i didnt pick up hand and then next second i coded up everything , and she said for me to go outside the classroom and talked to me that we can go like this and stuff.. obeviously i wont pick my hand up.. and i never really answer back, but for people like her, come on, if i want to code it into codepen.io she gonna have to call the head to take me out lol and even then i will prove the point lol .

The first time i applied to the college she told me why did i move college. I told her that i didnt like it and it was far. And she said ' No you moved because you didnt pass your english and they didnt want you to take the ourse thats why you moved' im thinking like what the hell .. i just told her .. not to mention they did accept me..

Another time she said to me ' i can assure you it will be no different ' with this not nice voice .

Plus the way she looks at me like what, im not a child, she wont scare me..

I know somebody reported her from my class . So im sure its not only me. And i dont know anyone in class , its one month but as i mentioned before SA etc : p

And if i show video of Nick, she will say hes wrong.. yeah sure.. i didnt show it, but im assuming.. because im repeting what Nick said basically lol .