by Elisabeth Robson | Feb 14, 2012 | Beginner's Mind, blog, CSS, Reader Question
We recently got a question from Michael, who asks: When troubleshooting CSS issues, how can I determine the source of a style that is applied to an element? My favorite way to figure out how an element is getting its style is to use the Element inspector in the Safari...
by admin | Jan 28, 2012 | Beginner's Mind, blog, Programming, Video
A reader from Kenya asks how best to get into programing. Eric Freeman answers the question, and the answer may not be what you expected…view the video below:
by Elisabeth Robson | Jan 19, 2012 | Beginner's Mind, Programming, Reader Question
I got a good reader question today about incrementing variables. This reader is completely new to programming and was getting confused about two common ways to increment variables: count = count + 1; a statement that often appears in a while loop, and i++; a statement...
by Elisabeth Robson | Aug 17, 2011 | Beginner's Mind, blog, HTML, Reader Question, Web
I received a question today from Eric, a prospective reader, about which book he should buy: Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML or Head First HTML5 Programming (now the official title of the book, by the way). In his case, the right book to start with is Head First...
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