HTML, CSS. I can handle it (SEPT/09/2010)

Today we had a guest teacher in our CS class, because Mr. Arkin is away today and tomorrow for a celebration of the Jewish New Year. The students entered the classroom, and immediately logged on to our computers not wasting one minute of our computer work period. My friends and I also took the liberty to open the blinds while the computers were logging on after we signed in.

This period was meant for us to practice and apply the different things we learned in class yesterday about HTML and CSS. At the beginning of class, I had trouble opening my file on the computer. (I had already prepared an HTML file to test in class when I was at home yesterday.) After that, I inserted the stylesheet link to my file and created a CSS file to go along with it. A few minutes later, there it was: the first website I designed by HTML and CSS from scratch. A feeling of pride and joy overwhelmed me at that moment.

It turns out that I was one of the few successful people that did not have trouble with figuring out how the concept of HTML and CSS files work together. I took the majority of the period assisting and explaining to several of my classmates, as well as experimenting on my own website by adding images, links, and even a comment box that I learned how to code on Google! It was such an enjoyable class today! I also enjoyed hearing my peers' cries of triumph ("Yes! I finally figured this out!") after I helped them figure out why their webpages did not turn out the way they wanted to.

I had a couple of questions about the autobiography at the beginning of class, but a classmate of mine showed me the marking scheme, and it gave me the responses to my questions- and more!

In regards to the homework, as far as I know, all I have to work on is the SuperPowers assignment and complete this daily blog.

Tomorrow is another day of working on the assignment under the supervision of a guest teacher. In addition, I will be one of the student hosts!

Overall, it was a great day today!