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Starting with the Basics In a nutshell, a variable is a memory location where you can store a value. This value may or may not change in the future. In Python, the declare a variable, you just have to assign a variable to it. For example: x = 5 x is...
> This piece is part of a Learn HTML & CSS series. Check out part 4 here: What is OOCSS and How OCSS Works [https://matcha.fyi/ocss-explained/] SMACSS Pronounced “smacks”, SMACSS stands for Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS. The idea behind SMACSS is to break your CSS down...
> This piece is part of a Learn HTML & CSS series. Check out part 3 here: HTML, The Cascade and Ways To Think In CSS [https://www.dottedsquirrel.com/css-introduction/] OOCSS OOCSS stands for Object-Oriented CSS. The idea behind OOCSS is that you can reuse your HTML structures and...
> This piece is part of a Learn HTML & CSS series. Check out part 2 here: Parts Of An HTML Document And How It Works With CSS [https://www.dottedsquirrel.com/html-explained-2/] I started learning how to code back in the early 2000s. For context on how long ago...
> This piece is part of a Learn HTML & CSS series. Check out part 1 here - What is a markup language? HTML Reference Cheatsheet. [https://www.dottedsquirrel.com/html-explained/] At its basic, HTML has three parts to it: 1. the document type declaration -- this tells the browser...
A markup language is a system of annotating a document. It usually wraps around a particular bit of text with a pair of <> and </> brackets. The <> signifies the beginning of the markup and </> marks the end. Here is an example of what...
