Looking for a Good Challenge
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My scripting class is still driving me insane. I’m finding it way too easy! Even though I’ve never really used Dreamweaver before I don’t really feel like I’m learning anything. I’m starting to appreciate what Dreamweaver does, but I’m still a code girl at heart (I heart CodeGrrl.com lol, that has nothing to do with anything but it some how seemed to fit). Eventually I will probably actually use Dreamweaver, but as of right now, I do not have it on my computer. Actually, that’s a lie. I have an expired trial version of it on my computer. But yeah, I usually end up sitting around bored in Jim’s class because he takes too long to do his examples. I know he can’t go at my speed but I wish he could. I think he might actually be going too fast for most of the class, but I’m not included in that “most” group. Debbie and I joke around that that’s why she sits by me in class because I can help her with stuff. But seriously, this class is making me insane because I really feel like I’m learning nothing so far. I think the only thing I’ve gotten out of the class, other than the appreciation of Dreamweaver, is how to go up a directory while still using relative URLs.
You put ../ at the beginning of the URL.
Seriously, that’s really the only thing I didn’t know for coding that I didn’t know before I started this class. It’s somewhat depressing.
At least all my other classes aren’t as bad. I’m catching on to everything pretty quickly in all my other classes, but I actually feel like I’m learning stuff in those classes. Well, Graphic Design kind of fits somewhere in between actually because I know Adobe Photoshop pretty well, and we’re doing mostly stuff I already knew how to do, just a bit different than how I normally do them. There’s so many different ways to do everything in Photoshop, usually at least three different ways. But I’m learning how to take better pictures. I finally learned what the aperture does (my dad had tried to teach me a long time ago but the way he explained it, it just didn’t sink in) and how to work with aperture and shudder speed and how to adjust lighting and whatnot in Photoshop. So I am learning in that class, but it’s not really all new stuff for me.
Anyways, I guess that’s my ranting for the day lol.