Josh Pitzalis

My software engineering learning log

Page 4


Today I Learnt Some HTML.

Total Days 2

Total Earned $0.

I learnt that a “tag” is a bit of code that tell a browser what to do. For a tag to work you have to <open> it and then </close> it.


  1. If you want some text on a webpage you put it inside a <p>aragraph tag. Html doesn’t acknowledge line breaks so if you want a new paragraph you need to use a <br>eak tag. <br>eak tags can be self-closing when written as <br />. If you want a line instead of just a line break then use a <hr /> tag for a horizontal rule (like the short grey line above).
  2. You can format text. Use the <strong> tag for bold, <em>phasis tag for italics, the <u>nderline tag or the <strike>through for strikethrough text. There are also 6 sizes of header text. <h1> is the largest and <h6> the smallest.
  3. You can also create lists. <ol> for numbered lists and <ul> for bullet points. In between the open and close tags each list item starts...

Continue reading →


Earning $10,000 Learning How to Code.

Total Days 0
Total Earned $0

The guy who wrote the first course I’m taking Rob Percival wrote kindle single called How To Earn $10,000 While Learning To Code.

The book lays out a simple but practical roadmap to getting paid as you learn how to code. It almost sounds too good to be true so I took it on as a challenge.

(Read the post I wrote 596 days later)

View →