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Introduction to CSS - CSS/CSS3 Course - Part 1

42 points by PatriciaLopes 14y ago

stephengillie 14y ago
Obligatory "Visual Studio?!? Oh the horror!!!" Edit: This video was well done and pleasant to watch.
- madmikey 14y ago
  What ever it is ,, delivery of the concept matters!
eslachance 14y ago
To me, this is a good example of how not to do an online video-based course. - Staring 2 minutes at HTML code that doesn't move while hearing a disembodied voice is a very bad start. - Detailed, technical information with no visual cues to help support it. For example, explaining a separate stylesheet file (which he call "style PAGE", actually), with only the mouse cursor waving around on the screen. - Too many non-useful details at first (non-supported features, difference in versions, etc. - So Notepad isn't good enough, and the next step is Visual Studio? Geeze, try Notepad++ first, maybe? - 6 minutes to get to actual HTML creation, almost 10 minutes to type in the first CSS code. - Spending half a minute calling a CSS property "A key-value pair separated by a semi-colon", repeating it 3 times. What is this, kindergarden for programmers? All in all, I stopped watching after 12 minutes, having learned more about this guy's bias towards Visual Studio than about CSS (or HTML for that matter).
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
  He also decided to use XHTML 1.0 Transitional to teach us about CSS3, which is funny, since I'd think HTML5 and CSS3 would go hand-in-hand.
- suyash 14y ago
  How the heck this got in the 1st page, shows how broke HN is!
madmikey 14y ago
I went through the JS tutorials as well, i guess this is more focused on Non-English students and students who have never done programming ever in their life.
rio517 14y ago
I'd recommend finding something else to do an intro with. This isn't a very good video. I agree with eslachance's comments.
prophetjohn 14y ago
While we're on the topic, though, what are some resources that are good for experienced programmers to really learn the semantics and best practices of CSS? All of the information I tend to find is either more focused at getting absolute beginners started or on the actual design aspect and not so much the mechanics. Basically, I'm hopeless to ever actually design something beautiful, but if something beautiful is shown to me, I'd like to be able to replicate it with CSS and not have to $(document).ready() the crap out of it because of my poor understanding of CSS.
- clark-kent 14y ago
  CSS The Missing Manual by David McFarland is a good start. http://www.amazon.com/CSS-Missing-David-Sawyer-McFarland/dp/0596802447 http://www.amazon.com/CSS-Missing-David-Sawyer-McFarland/dp/...

42 points by PatriciaLopes 14y ago

stephengillie 14y ago

Obligatory "Visual Studio?!? Oh the horror!!!" Edit: This video was well done and pleasant to watch.

madmikey 14y ago
What ever it is ,, delivery of the concept matters!

eslachance 14y ago

To me, this is a good example of how not to do an online video-based course. - Staring 2 minutes at HTML code that doesn't move while hearing a disembodied voice is a very bad start. - Detailed, technical information with no visual cues to help support it. For example, explaining a separate stylesheet file (which he call "style PAGE", actually), with only the mouse cursor waving around on the screen. - Too many non-useful details at first (non-supported features, difference in versions, etc. - So Notepad isn't good enough, and the next step is Visual Studio? Geeze, try Notepad++ first, maybe? - 6 minutes to get to actual HTML creation, almost 10 minutes to type in the first CSS code. - Spending half a minute calling a CSS property "A key-value pair separated by a semi-colon", repeating it 3 times. What is this, kindergarden for programmers? All in all, I stopped watching after 12 minutes, having learned more about this guy's bias towards Visual Studio than about CSS (or HTML for that matter).

TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
He also decided to use XHTML 1.0 Transitional to teach us about CSS3, which is funny, since I'd think HTML5 and CSS3 would go hand-in-hand.
suyash 14y ago
How the heck this got in the 1st page, shows how broke HN is!

madmikey 14y ago

I went through the JS tutorials as well, i guess this is more focused on Non-English students and students who have never done programming ever in their life.

rio517 14y ago

I'd recommend finding something else to do an intro with. This isn't a very good video. I agree with eslachance's comments.

prophetjohn 14y ago

While we're on the topic, though, what are some resources that are good for experienced programmers to really learn the semantics and best practices of CSS? All of the information I tend to find is either more focused at getting absolute beginners started or on the actual design aspect and not so much the mechanics. Basically, I'm hopeless to ever actually design something beautiful, but if something beautiful is shown to me, I'd like to be able to replicate it with CSS and not have to $(document).ready() the crap out of it because of my poor understanding of CSS.

clark-kent 14y ago
CSS The Missing Manual by David McFarland is a good start. http://www.amazon.com/CSS-Missing-David-Sawyer-McFarland/dp/0596802447 http://www.amazon.com/CSS-Missing-David-Sawyer-McFarland/dp/...