Tuesday, December 9, 2008

FInal Project : Failure is a Success

... Like nothing is something. Right?

OK. I'll keep that in mind as I find myself continually going back to the beginning of a problem when I hit a wall. Not much success yet today unless you count the failures. Finding myself usually confused mid-way through a process I'm going to try to diagram what I need and follow that.

The curve is steep in the beginning. Not sure it's going to plane out in time for final presentation but I'm not giving up.

Once I finally accomplish a (small) goal, I look back and realize if I only knew how to visualize the code in the first place, it would have taken a fraction of the time.
For instance I really wanted alternating row colors. I had an idea for a counter similar to a previous class but it turned out to be sloppy joe code and I couldn't get the syntax correct. Realizing I'm still at the stage I need to see a similar proof, 99% of the solutions out there for html table rows weren't working for me until I found Alternating row color in HTML/CSS (with PHP)

Hope to have accomplishments to post tonight.

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