What did I learn?
This project provided an excellent way to experiement with programming, not only giving me practice and allowing me to experiment with the skill, but also giving me the opportunity to speak with a real professional programmer, Erin Kidwell. And, through the process of creating this site, I have learned how much I enjoy programming, and what I do and don't excell at in that process.
Furthermore, I learned how to use a variety of essential programming tools to make a website and organize my code well. I learned to use:
- Atom (a text editor with powerful version git integration)
- Git & Github (a version control software and cloud hosting storage site)
- Terminal (the macOS console application that allowed me to organize and edit files)
- Bootstrap (a ubiquitous web development library with which most web developers today are familiar)
- html (the markup language that undergirds the web)
- css (the language that gives the web style)