Which freeCodeCamp lessons were most difficult for you and why? Please be as in-debth as possible. There is no limit tot the number of responses or lessons mentioned. We have provided you with the template below and expect you to format any additional entries in the same way, so simply copy and paste the following three lines for each lesson you struggled with, change the subject title and the lesson title, and fill out your answers under the lessons you striggled with below:
Say Hello to HTML Elements
- I didn't struggle with this section but I think there are a couple of good takeaways that can be taken from here. One thing to remember is that HTML5 has a few cool built in properties that allow you to control whether your inputs get submitted or not. Like the required property. On my last project I would check to see if the input contained any contents before allowing it to be submitted. Required is a simple shortcut to do the same thing. Also the checked property can be useful with radio buttons and check boxes.
Say Hello to Basic CSS
- This section was a little more challenging but never too daunting. Something that I learned about CSS through this course that i thought was interesing is the !important CSS property that can be used to guarantee that an element would belong to a specified class when it loads into the page. That was my biggest takeaway from this section. It wasn't too bad to work through.
Say Hello to CSS FlexBox Challenges
- Ahhh FlexBox. I honestly love FlexBox. The challenges in this course were pretty straight forward and kind of give you the answer at some points. I recommend FlexBox Froggie. That game was the first place I started learning FlexBox and it's pretty useful. My biggest takeaway from this course was that FlexBox is really nice and I love working with it. I'm curious about what the grid challenges will be like.
Say Hello to CSS Grid Challenges
- I feel like the grid challenges were a little more challenging than the FlexBox challenges. I enjoy both and I can understand when it would be necessary to use one over the other. I typically think FlexBox makes more sense but I don't mind grid. Interesting lesson.
Say Hello to JavaScript Challenges
- This lesson was a good refresher on the different built in methods used in JavaScript and the type of thinking that is required to solve certain challenges. I didn't get stuck on any lessons but I did find a few of them to be pretty challenging. This course covers quite a bit of material briefly without getting too in debth so I would've like to see them dig deeper into for loops and other parts of the course. There were a few different lessons that I had taken something good from while working on this section. I hadn't heard of the 'delete' property in JavaScript so I thought that was cool to be able to delete a key and value from an object. I can see how it'd be helpful to be able to delete some piece of data from a database using the 'delete' method.
Say Hello to ES6
- This was definitely the most challenging section in the program but also the most rewarding. ES6 offers a ton of different ways to clean up your code and provide clarity when working on a project. Implementing destructuring is an awesome way to refactor your code as well. I also learned a couple things about destructuring that I didn't know before, like how you can name variables in a nested object. I thought that was super interesting.