Programming
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No Progress with the progress element in WordPress
A few posts ago I reported about the progress and meter elements in html5 and that I had found a way to add these to a WordPress blog. Unfortunately it didn’t work as expected. After entering the html code the block looked as expected but when I published the post I only say the labels…
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100 Days of Code Python Bootcamp Progress
As mentioned earlier I am checking out this course on Udemy to see if it is something worth while suggesting to my son. The first 14 days cover the basics and are labelled beginner and 14 days of coding should be doable for him, these are sessions that take 1 to 2 hours each, watching…
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Serendipity
In the previous blog post I mentioned I was scouting around for a good Python course for my 15 year old son and went of on a tangent about whether AI means you don’t need to know Python at all. Needless to say I still believe that you can benefit from being able to program…
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Why Practical Python Courses Matter for Young (and older) Learners
Recently I was scouting around for a good Python course for my 15 year old son. They way they are teaching it in school is not very practical. There is a lot of text explaining concepts in a web application with questions and code cells where you have to type code and execute. He is…
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Understanding URL Encoding: W3Schools Guide
Every now and then I copy a hyperlink and it gives me back these encoded strings. I then have to go looking for what they mean every time. So I wanted to copy a hyperlink to this table I found on W3Schools but for some weird reason I couldn’t copy the hyperlink (kept linking to…
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Bootstrap 5 Foundations, Daniel Foreman (ISBN 9798749992465, foremanlearning)
Recently I followed a course on Coursera about Front-End Web Development, html and css from Meta. It was a nice refresher but compared to some other courses on similar topics created by universities the course materials are a bit meager: no slides or reading material you can save and easily read again. You have to…
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Writing Fractions In HTML
I have been thinking about digitising my notes of mathematics and physics exercises done over the years and one option would be to add them to my blog. As I don’t have a business subscription I cannot use a math editor. One option available to me is to use LATEX but for some of the…
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Swift Playgrounds
A year ago, at the beginning of the first lockdown we started with Swift playgrounds at home on the iPad to teach our 10 year old son Merijn a bit of coding. I had looked at it earlier but then it wasn’t available yet in Dutch. Last year it was and with a lot of…
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Personal Web Page Developments
Near the end of the previous millennium my internet provider brought ADSL connections to the market and I subscribed to the service. No more dial in connections with a modem over the phone line. With the service came an email address with a couple of aliases and the possibility to host your own personal homepage.…
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MOOC
I am currently following a Coursera based IBM Professional Certificate on Data Analysis. Finished the first 7 courses and now busy with the Capstone Project. I’ve followed a couple of online courses over the years from various sites like DataCamp, Stanford, Udacity and so on. But it all started with an experiment in 2011 when…
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