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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
#452Laughed at this: "Without computers used have to use tablets. Tablets aren't very useful."
So true!
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Flexbox, grid. You're all forgetting the best way to build layouts: ol' reliable, .
As used on HN. It just works, even today.
Yeah, but HN uses tables in a really dumb way. Each comment is in a separate table with the width of the first column set to provide the correct amount of indenting.
If the comments were properly nested you would just have a standard left margin and the tables would be completely unnecessary.
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#454Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know you're not entirely serious, but we really had it good and largely figured out with tables. It's probably because using tables for layouts was my native language, but I still sometimes have to mentally translate divs into a table in my mind to picture what is happening, and when default types are change (like block to inline, etc) it sometimes breaks my brain and I have to fallback to experimentation to get wh…
Tables aren't even deprecated. IMO you're better off keeping the tables than transforming it into soup. 20 years ago you'd hear it shouted from the rooftops: "Tables for layout are not semantic!". Guess what? s are never semantic. Just use tables if it suits you.
If you use tables for what they were intended for or you have no problem with them, keep on truckin. But they sucked when they were the only way to do things.
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#455Earlier quoted context omitted.
HTML is fine to lean to code by hand. Tags can provide clear starts and ends for beginners, as well as concepts of nesting. Folks who learned to code HTML using a wysiwyg html editor may be able to describe how it helped them learn.
Yes correct, it's a good startup but 7 years was too kid. At least 12 years is fine. Kids life are so different, joyful, curious, etc. Any kid will be come adult to learn code or do whatever work. Programming isn't big deal any old age man can do programming. Anyone can learn programming at any age. But kids life never come back. At least teaching standard mathamatics like bits and bytes with abacus can be acceptable…
What if building things with computers felt like magic?
Programming as a kid or teenager wasn’t work. It’s fun. It’s a challenge. It’s a sense of accomplishment if you do something that you didn’t know how to do.
7 can seem young to me too but I also know kids these days seem different and if they are naturally into something… can’t say much.
Even kids with little to no screen time are sponges and there’s so much more to stimulate them.
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#456My son built his first interpreter in Haskell when he was 18months old
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#457it's good to see a little person having fun with all this technocrap that us grognards have gotten so bitter about over the years/decades. :) i hope she continues to have a blast! (from the dedication page in SICP:) “I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and t…
I miss the fun in software development in the workplace. Something has changed. When I started 20+ years ago, people would get excited about something new they learned and rush to tell other people about it. Now everybody is grim, too busy grinding and "managing their visibility" to show any pleasure. If it was just me and my friends who were joyless now, I'd chalk it up to us getting old, but my coworkers who are th…
My funnest one was a big flaming GIF at the top of our admin page that said "production". I believe it was from "cooltext.com"
last i checked it was still there 10+ years later
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#458> Cats are about 2 feet that means six times there height would be about 12 feet. That would be a very terrifying cat Yes it would. There's something wonderful about the paths that a mind that hasn't been fully toned the way society wants it to explores. Well done.
> . The most common dog color is probably brown or black
trust it more than gPT
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#459Width 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…
> The dog is squeezed! We talked about that, and she thought it looked better that way.
could you replace it with a picture of her hugging a dog, and caption it "the dog is squeezed"?
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#460This is very warming :)