Best practices make for a more likely used and well rated app. Many apps are never used after the first few days – so using best practices will help increase the chance of it being used. Identify your audience. Know what they need, and how they want/plan to use it. Design for context of use….
Mobile apps have come a long way since they were first introduced a few years ago. Where sometimes people were frustrated by not having as much features, now people rely on them as much, or more than their desktop computer – even foregoing a personal computer. While an app can be developed by an amateur,…
We’ve talked about arrays and objects before, but now we’re going to look at an array of objects. Consider a situation where you had a class called Student. While you would often need to work with a singular student, you could very likely also need to have multiple students, for example, if you were talking…
In C++ there are two ways to process strings. C-Strings which are an array of characters terminated by a null character, or the C++ style string object. The string class hides the details of how the string is stored from the user – remember one of the tasks of a class is to abstract the…
Adding an image is simultaneously easy, and difficult to do. You might think, how can something be both easy, and difficult – well, it is easy to add the image itself, but it can be a challenge to master the process. <img> Tag Let’s start with the easy – the img tag. The image tag…
The description list is slightly “new” to HTML 5. I say new, in that previous to HTML 5, it was called a “definition list” and now it is a description list. The same tags are used, just the name changed. The description list is the least used of the list containers for two reasons. First,…
While it is not encountered all the time, any web developer who has worked very long will encounter a need for nested lists – that is a list within a list, or what is sometimes called a sub-list. Nested lists allow for you to better organize groups of related items. Consider a packing list for…
An ordered list provides a list of items that should be viewed and/or performed in a certain order. In a college or university setting, you might be given a series of classes that are recommended to take in a given order due to prerequisites. Or you might have a list of steps needed to perform…
