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I'm using github pages to host a website of mine, and I need another. Can anyone recommend a cheap/reliable simple html/css/js website host? No need for wordpress installation, Rails, etc.
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Because we are software engineers and website designers and we can do better... (Please don't look at my website...)
Certainly we can do better, but 20 carefully researched one-liners aren't nearly as technologically advanced, elaborate and useful as a well-crafted, intuitive UI with a more maintainable end result.
Taken from https://about.me/laraodm, which I got to from the About.me homepage > staff picks.
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You're blaming the students. Is it a possibility that the fault lies with you?
Obviously the fault lies with me. The problem I'm having is exactly the question I opened with: where do you draw the line? How do you draw the line? At what point do you say "You know what, a beginner should know this"? Or whatever the specific level you decide to teach at. Personally I try to teach at levels above beginner. This only makes the line blurrier because there's no clear divide between someone who kinda…
How would you teach, not your mum but, a first year computer science student how to make a dynamic HTML5-Javascript app?
Sure, they (probably) understand what a file is much better than your mum, but still: Canvas, "this", libraries, dependencies, etc etc..
I was having trouble explaining stuff to my father as well but I realised that I don't have to give him a pretty picture of how a computer works when all he wants is to be able to reply to emails, print attachments and create documents. Forget the file system and the desktop and the folders and this and that, all he wanted was simple step guides to perform these very specific tasks.
In the end, the teaching process is the same, no matter how (non) beginner someone is: There is always something they probably don't know and you don't have to teach them the whole universe before they learn how to do something. You don't have to know what electricity is in order turn the lights on..
This gave me a great idea. There should be a website with a bunch of programming challenges (e.g like making a Todo list app or write a data structure in an hour) where you can share your code and workflow. You could then view a bunch of other peoples workflows, code, and post mortem notes and discuss how to improve each others workflows. Anybody know of a site like this?
After solving each challenge, you're given access to the message board for that problem where people post their code and discuss how they solved it. The problems tend to become more focused on math implementations than programming after a while though, so this may not be the best example for you.
Student here. Why do you run a localhost web server before pushing to git? Is this a git thing? (I am a newbie to github). Thanks. I like this nice short article.
Now as to why start the simple http server to check your work vs. opening the index.html file directly in the browser:
1) relative links can behave in an unexpected manner using the file:// path, and you'll get more consistent behavior using the server
2) There are sometimes permissions errors loading scripts into the page when it's displaying through file:// (relatedly, protocol relative links eg. //code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.3.min.js won't work).
If the inspiration for this was to smack down a friend who hasn't started "his web site", then all this really proves is that putting content online is far less of a barrier than coming up with the content in the first place. Putting HTML in place that it can be opened by a web browser is not a challenge and has not been a challenge for over a decade. Github is one choice, shared hosting is another... as the comments…
A shared google doc would be just as effective.
This gave me a great idea. There should be a website with a bunch of programming challenges (e.g like making a Todo list app or write a data structure in an hour) where you can share your code and workflow. You could then view a bunch of other peoples workflows, code, and post mortem notes and discuss how to improve each others workflows. Anybody know of a site like this?
