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Ada Okeke
CS student · learning frontend in public
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University student in Lagos teaching myself HTML, CSS and a bit of JavaScript between lectures.
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Got my first paid project before I even finish my degree
A shop owner near campus saw a small site I'd shared here and asked if I could build something similar for her business, and this week she actually paid me for it. It's not a lot of money and it's definitely not a job, just one small paid project while I'm still in my third year. Still feels like proof that posting the work instead of hiding it until graduation was the right call.
Flexbox finally made sense after I stopped memorising
I kept trying to memorise which property does what in flexbox and it never stuck. What worked instead was building five tiny layouts on purpose, a navbar, a card row, a centered box, and just breaking them until I understood why justify-content and align-items behave differently. Slower approach, but it actually stayed in my head this time.
Why is my CSS class not beating my ID style
I have a class rule that should change my button color, but an ID style from an old stylesheet keeps winning. I read that IDs are more specific than classes but I didn't expect it to be this stubborn. Is the fix always to add !important, or is there a cleaner way to structure this?
Finished my first freeCodeCamp certification
Responsive Web Design certificate done after almost three months of stealing time between classes. It took much longer than the estimated hours said it would, mostly because I kept redoing projects I wasn't happy with. Starting the JavaScript one next, slightly terrified already.
Async/await is still not clicking for me
I can copy code that uses async and await and it works, but I couldn't explain to you why. Every explanation I find jumps straight into Promises and I get lost somewhere in the middle. Does anyone have a simple way to think about it that doesn't start with the word 'microtask'?
How much ChatGPT is too much when learning to code
I use it to explain error messages and it genuinely speeds things up, but sometimes I catch myself pasting an entire assignment in without trying first. I don't want to end up unable to debug anything without it. Where do more experienced people draw the line?
New here, just finished my first HTML and CSS project
Hi everyone, I'm a second year computer science student in Lagos and this is my first time posting anything I built. It's a simple recipe page, nothing fancy, but it's the first time I wrote the HTML myself instead of following a video step by step. Looking forward to learning from people here.
The 'this' keyword is breaking my brain
Inside a regular function 'this' means one thing, inside an arrow function it means something else, and inside an event handler it's apparently a third thing. I tried console logging it everywhere and now I'm more confused than before. Can someone explain it without using the word 'context' as if that clears anything up?
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