My motivation for hacking together this Javascript quiz was to be able to create an interactive version of a mental health tool called an “Automatic Thought Record”. It’s a cognitive behavioral therapy worksheet that can be useful to anyone who experiences untrue negative thoughts (which is almost everyone!); it uses …
I have now hacked together my quiz. The code is no thing of beauty, but it works — and that’s exciting. I will now set this aside and work on building my actual programming skills and coding Javascript in something that could be considered the proper way.
I started reading Eloquent Javascript, which seems like a very well-written tutorial with a lot of programming fundamentals…. but I got frustrated with putting my project on hold. I think there’s something to be said for hacking some code and getting something out, and then taking time to refactor and …
Over 10 years ago, I made my first show/hide toggler and was very proud of it… and tonight I had to remember how to do these basics. My script searches for section elements and hides all but the specified one — this will eventually be used as a way of …
I’ve decided to devote two nights a week to working on a side project. The first iteration will be very simple: a one page JS quiz/worksheet with a summary page at the end. The only problem is that I have forgotten more Javascript than I currently know, and all of …