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My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Not a bad looking website. I like it better than most of that responsive CSS/JS bloated nightmares out there. I wish more websites were faster loading like this one.

try searching with https://teclis.com/ ...

Just type in some word like "cat" and click on the links. They are kinda all like that.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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> A dog that my aunt has uses a button to tell her if she's hungry or tired. I‘m intrigued! We also have two dogs and the more I know them, the more I‘m fascinated by their ability to tell us exactly what they feel. I didn’t know they can learn to use buttons to do this.

Have fun - https://www.hungerforwords.com/

Holy fuck that's incredibly interesting! The dog knows it's own name, composes multi word sentences... that's consciousness and volition on par with humans.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Width and height must be specified without units (although looks like browsers accept it, probably by ignoring the unit). IMG tags are self-closing, so you can omit

   
The dog picture has wrong aspect ratio. The dog is squeezed! It should be 620 × 349 or, if 500 width or 400 height is needed, there's a good mathematical task to calculate the size of the other side.

   
No need for / in HTML.

   unicorn.html
   unicorncopy.html
Page for cats is named unicorn.html! and for computers it's unicorncopy!!!

PS I don't like that CloudFlare Pages strips .html. Too magical.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Wow, great stuff. Tell her she did a fantastic job! --- By necessity, kids these days don't even need to learn what a file is. Videos are "on youtube". Documents are stored "in ms word". The median developer even seems to have a very shallow understanding of how a computer actually works. And why would they, if they can just glue some Lambdas together to earn a buck? --- Praise those that look a bit deeper and really…

Files are an abstraction that was very useful in the last several decades, but that just isn't as relevant in the current world. Those videos and documents you mentioned are likely managed via object storage in a distributed database, itself possibly using block storage directly, with no actual "file" in an old-school filesystem anywhere in sight. I still personally cling to files personally, but I have no real reaso…

Sure, call them byte streams or blobs, that's fine too. I'm not disagreeing, but the point I wanted to make was that recently, people seem to have gotten the idea that their objects are semi-magical things locked into some app or some cloud service. Which is fine by the SaaS providers, or course. But it doesn't really foster understanding of the world around you.

Like kids thinking corn comes from the corn factory.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

#28

This looks like a solid first step. I am also teaching my 8yo a bit of coding, starting with HTML but he complains about a lot of typing, he is slow in typing so it becomes painful for him. Did your daughter face this problem?

We have her setup with iMessage (with screen time to limit who she's talking with), so she chats with the family pretty often. I think that may have helped with typing speed.
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