Post 3 - Book review

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Hi everyone! Hopefully your all skiing holiday went well! 😎

In this post, I will tell you about the book which I picked for this exercise. Because I am interested in web development I picked "Javascript for Modern Web Development: Building a Web Application using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript" from Ranjan, etc. (2020). From the book, I read chapters on CSS and JavaScript. 

Why web development? From the first course of web-based coding, I keen on it and somehow it was fun to see in a visual way what is possible to build with code. Therefore, I would love to learn more about CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and JavaScript, so I thought to read these chapters of this book. So basically CSS is a must-have skill in web development besides HTML. 

According to the book, HTML is the content definer and CSS defines content visuality. Briefly, CSS has two main parts: a selector (e.g. <p>) and a declaration block (e.g. { color: blue; font-family: "Arial"}). There are three CSS inserting style sheets: <style> selectors (internal sheet), external style sheet (mystyle.css) or inline style sheet (<p style:"color: blue" >).

Then a couple words of JavaScript which is the brain of the web content. JS defines what happens next and how the user interactions are handled. The book presents the use of JavaScript certainly and shows with examples how to use the language with HTML and CSS. Especially I liked tangible examples of code operators and functions.

This book describes very clearly the basics of CSS and JS. Ranjan simplifies in his writing how to use these programming languages. There are multiple examples from the very root of code with the following explanations. I learn a couple web design "tricks" to solve some visual problems. And for our group project, there is plenty of good ideas for the design of the app.


Source: Ranjan, A., Sinha, A., & Battewad, R. (2020). JavaScript for Modern Web Development: Building a Web Application Using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. BPB Publications. https://www.perlego.com/book/1681470/javascript-for-modern-web-development-building-a-web-application-using-html-css-and-javascript-pdf

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  1. Julia Heikkilä7. huhtikuuta 2021 klo 1.44

    Hi Sara!
    I like the way you think about web development and because it is a rather new subject for me, your post gave me a quick overview on it. The book you read sounds helpful and worth reading if web development starts to interest more.

    VastaaPoista
  2. Stefan Ylimäki7. huhtikuuta 2021 klo 23.49

    I don't know why the CSS and JS have felt too distant for me and too hard to even begin learning. This text maybe cleared the vision a bit and I might have a new motivation to look at them.

    Those examples are nice and I also like that the book has them!

    VastaaPoista
  3. Kia Tupitsa8. huhtikuuta 2021 klo 5.38

    Hi,

    Thanks for your thoughts about web developing. It is a new subject area for me, so this post was really nice and eye-opening, maybe I'll get excited about it too. Never know!

    VastaaPoista
  4. EetuS5. toukokuuta 2021 klo 5.23

    Thanks for the post!
    I think I should pick up a book about web development too because every time I make something for the web I end up googling the same stupid questions instead of actually learning the principles. This book certainly could be a good starting-point for me!

    VastaaPoista

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