So as I prepared myself to surf the web and write yet another blog for Dr. Drake I thought about two things that I wanted to share with the class. Not sure if these are your same worries or thoughts but I'll tell you anyways. LOL
I love facebook, it's like my only addiction. While others are addicted to video games and anime, I sit on facebook and look at pictures, read messages, and comment on people's status. But the other day when I was on facebook I noticed something. When you look at someone's page and switch between tabs(info, photos, boxes), the whole page does not refresh, only the tab changes. The side panel does not change. Now I don't know much about AJAX and am on the fence about it and programming in general, but I thought; is this a form of AJAX? Does AJAX have more that one form like Java and Javascipt or HTML and XHTML? It just made me curious. I usually try to take what I learn in class and apply it to my everyday life. In this case I applied the teachings of IS449 to my addiction to facebook. LOL
My second concern is the first lab that we did. I never got my pictures to pop up in the box. I understand what is supposed to be going on and I read over the first few pages, stopped and restarted the lab but it never worked. This concerns me because if I'm not getting the basics of AJAX how am I going to pass this class and passing is not an option! It will be done, graduation is so close...I can taste it. But I guess I will need to be more social with my colleagues and get help and in turn try to help those who ask me also.
PASSING is not an option Jenelle?!?! LOL But I definitely feel the same way that you do. Ajax is taking me a little while longer to pick up than HTML did. But I will have to definitely have to study a little hard to get the foundation down so I can build on it as the semester goes on. Just remember I'm always here to work on it with you!
ReplyDeleteI know what you're saying when it comes to Facebook updating. Sometimes the feed doesn't even update properly which is extremely annoying.
ReplyDeleteAs far as your pictures not showing up, I experienced things like that as well. I find that it's not usually something I did wrong when following directions in the book, it's usually a stupid error like I missed a space or something. So I usually just stare at the code until I find something, sometimes it takes longer than others but it's not too bad.