Border, Padding, and Margin
Imagine you have a pizza. Everyone likes pizza. Well today we are going to use a very cumbersome metaphor to relate the CSS concept of Border, Padding, and Margin, to a real life, delicious pepperoni pizza.
Probe Them Problems
What if you can't see the solution for the problems? Object literals are weird to get your head around. At first, they seem so simple. You have the object itself, which is basically a container. Then you have the properties, which are made of a name and value pair. But! The properties can be objects themselves, or the name value pair could have a function in it. It gets pretty complicated fast.
Plan the Learning
Ten years spent selling products that people don't really need for more money than they are actually worth has given me the desire to build things, to create and maintain projects that fulfill actual purpose and are worth the resources invested in them. Infrastructure, tools, libraries, the critical bits that everyone needs to be more productive and to help their businesses grow. I don't want to sell the product at the end of a long chain, I want to build the chain.
EQ is Brain Salad
"Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you."
- Roger Ebert, the best film journalist to have ever lived
Fundamentally JavaScript
Ever wanted to learn about the most popular programming language in the world? Well now you can! So you want to build a house, that is a metaphor for a website (we will pretend for this exercise that we live in a country where that is financially feasible). First you will need your plan and framing, this would be your HTML. HTML tells the computer what elements you have, and where they go (your DIV rooms, your < a href> doors, etc).
Growth whosit and neuro what now?
Neuroplasticity, growth mindset, and your wobbly, jelly brain. Neuroplasticity refers to the brains ability to 'modify' itself, creating new neural connections and pathways when reinforced practice and repetition of the activity. Understanding this mechanism of change is incredibly useful, as with it, individuals and improve their brain's function and capacity in desired ways, leading to better mental and physical health outcomes. Even by the simple act of just knowing that this process happens in our daily lives with practicing new skills, or reinforcing good (and bad) habits, helps people increase their academic performance, and negated some of the negative effects of stress on learning.