DOM events are user events that a web browser monitors to provide interactivity in the website.

When listening to user events, it’s important to set the id of the different buttons that you want to monitor (using id preferred over class as there is a slight performance improvement).

Quick lessons and exercises on both Udemy ZTM and freeCodeCamp on arrays and functions. Had 5 Zero days since my last check-in, and the previous streak was 10. Let’s push for 11 this time.

Days since last Zero Day: 1 (25/9/2020)

Just a one liner today, doing an fcc exercise on nested arrays. Seems similar to python.

Days since last Zero Day: 10 (10/9/2020)

Finally starting with learning JavaScript after taking so long with HTML and CSS. Having learnt Python before, it’s a gentler slope to overcome when learning JS.

First few lessons are simple basics, i.e. understanding what are numbers, strings, booleans, comparisons, variables. There was also a couple of exercises to practice with in the browser dev console.

Also learnt control flow, namely conditionals. Very similar to Python except slightly different syntax (OR is||, AND is &&, NOT is !).

Days since last Zero Day: 9 (10/9/2020)

Managed to quickly complete the final project for the Responsive Web Design Certification by re-using boilerplate code that I had previously from the ZTM web dev course, to create a barebones personal portfolio website. Now ready to deep dive into JavaScript.

Days since last Zero Day: 8 (10/9/2020)

This took me a while to complete especially since I stopped for a couple of months, and then came back after some refreshing of the concepts. A very simple attempt but the important part is I completed it!

Days since last Zero Day: 8 (10/9/2020)

Long day today so just a quick code to update font-family and font-size for my <header> elements.

Days since last Zero Day: 7 (10/9/2020)

Having completed the HTML & CSS portion of ZTM, I decided to return to my FCC projects and continue work from where I left off.

Decided to use the Pokemon TCG API as my example for the project and started work by filling out content in the html.

Days since last Zero day: 6 (10/9/2020)

Created a starter html and css template using grid and flexbox, with a layout that can be used for different websites (navbar, cover, project grid, footer).

Days since last Zero Day: 5 (10/9/2020)

Quick lesson to get in my daily, learning differences between CSS grid, flexbox and bootstrap.

Days since last Zero Day: 4 (10/9/2020)