Exactly as I would do it if I were a 7yo. Speak what you will about the virtues of CSS and semantic markup, these things get in the way of having fun. And can be learned later.
On the contrary, CSS is where the fun starts.
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
#82Wow, 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…
Abstractions will start coming and they don't stop coming. People in the late 90s/early 2000s probably complained about people like me who learned about HTML but only had a shallow understanding of how laying out a GUI and text rendering works. Which why would we, when we could just glue some HTML together to make a Chrono Trigger fan site?
Abstractions are fine. Everything we do is a dozen layers of abstraction on top of the metal anyway.
It just happens that people who know how the bits actually move underneath the abstractions tend to be better at solving problems related to those abstractions, than those who don't.
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
try searching with https://teclis.com/ ... Just type in some word like "cat" and click on the links. They are kinda all like that.
I entered "mercedes w204" and found bloated stuff
I think the true filter, in practice, is to filter out sites with spyware or adware.
This tends towards cleaner sites and really it's the only stable fix for SEO spam
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#84Not 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.
Steady on. In what conceivable way is a few lines of CSS comparable to a ream of JS?
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#85Great job Naya :)
For other parents here, if your kids are interested in learning HTML and CSS with the help of cute aliens, my son (who was 11 at the time) and I built HTML Planet for Kids [0]. The course uses a visual editor for manipulating HTML, so that there is less typing and frustrating syntax mistakes, while still exposing the code directly without any added abstractions.
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#86Cute page but what's the cloudflare analytics for
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#87Width 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 Pa…
Is this code review of HTML written by a 7 year old too hackernews, or just hackernews enough? Who can tell!
When the Trump assassination attempt happened last week and every single post on here was still about computers that's when I realized this place is different
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#88Awesome! I love seeing kids play around with code. Curiosity is very important at any age.
That’s how I started too. Back in the days of Internet Explorer, I used to click View -> Source and mess around with the HTML in Notepad. I’d change the content, blocks, colors...
About 25 years later, I’m still coding, but right now I’m deploying the data transformation pipeline (T in the ELT) on production server to calculate business KPIs.
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#89Wow, 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…
> 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".
Coincidentally, I've been thinking about that recently. My conclusion was that this couldn't be true, as it didn't make any sense.
I mean, even when using a phone or a tablet, the pictures they take or the videos they make end up somewhere. And that somewhere must be found, to be able to upload their take to the app or the website of their choice, or to be edited in an app before uploading.
So by extension, as that medium is "somewhere" on their device, they must be able, intuitively, to deduce the concept of a file?
And the take on the median developer frightens me even more. Somehow it feels akin to giving a soldier a firearm and letting him off to go and fight. Surely that's going to end in disaster?
Praise those that look a bit deeper and really want to know how a thing works
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#90Now tell her to deploy it on Kubernetes.