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Rachel Varon
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Rachel Varon
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 16,723 Points
Posted by Rachel Varon
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Rachel Varon
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 16,723 Points

Wanting to get more practice

Hi Forum! I am new at coding but I am enjoying learning it very much. I have been working on the Web Design Track and I feel like I am ready to try a project to apply the CSS & design skills that I have been building. What do you suggest? Is there a playground or project area that I might find an assignment?

Thanks for your help.

6 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
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James Barnett
James Barnett
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Here are a few ideas ...

I'd suggest building these using http://codio.com, you can then push your code to github. If you don't know about how github works yet check out https://try.github.io

If you are looking for a playground for smaller projects that's what http://codepen.io is for.

James Ingmire
James Ingmire
11,901 Points
James Ingmire
James Ingmire
11,901 Points

Try building your own site or page/s, this could be a topic you're interested in e.g. a hobby or something un-related. You can use the Treehouse Workspaces on the left or use a text editor and load it through your browser to practice, not sure if there is a project except the ones you follow in css and html tracks tho.

Idea's? Picture gallery. Blog. Cook book.

Regards.

idan ben yair
idan ben yair
10,288 Points
idan ben yair
idan ben yair
10,288 Points

Hi Rachel,

You can look in to open source projects on: https://github.com/ And you can use examples of code on http://codepen.io/

codepen will help you with ideas that you have and give you new ideas. most of it is open source so you could use the code or build your own stuff by learning how certain things work!

Let me know if that helped :)

Rachel Varon
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Rachel Varon
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Rachel Varon
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Rachel Varon
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Thank you to both James and idan for your suggestions. One follow-up question. What text editor do you think is the best for coding? I have dreamweaver but I am not sure it is the most fluid. Text wrangler is another I have used in the past.
TYVM, Rachel

idan ben yair
idan ben yair
10,288 Points
idan ben yair
idan ben yair
10,288 Points

You should work with sublime text

http://www.sublimetext.com/3

That one is the best in my books, it auto completes certain stuff and great for managing content and directories later on when you get more in to it.

Hope that helped :)

Aleksandra Agosto
Aleksandra Agosto
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Aleksandra Agosto
Aleksandra Agosto
2,125 Points

What I'm doing as a personal project to apply what I've been learning is that I've been re-making a site that already exists but making it better. For example if a local organization, like a church in your area, has a website that's outdated and could use a facelift. You can re-make the site yourself and make it look nicer. If you like it a lot you could even talk to them and see if they'd like to use it. :)

Also I agree that Sublime is awesome. I've also been using Komodo Edit 8.5 and have been liking it as well.