To use Web Storage, we need to be both using HTML5 and JavaScript. Luckily Bootstrap is based on the HTML5 so that makes that part easy. To work with web elements, we can use JavaScript to access them, or jQuery, which is a little easier to identify individual elements in a script. Luckily for us,…
Using the Web Storage feature of HTML5 requires a bit of JavaScript, but overall is easy to use, once you learn it’s limits and capabilities. Web Storage is kind of like a simple, NoSQL database. I say, “like a” because while it is very similar in some respects, it is also different in others. Web…
While our class works well, there are a few additional things we can do to make it better. Add Security One down side to our class is while we have class variables, anyone who knows our variable names can access them by specifying our object instance name and then the variable name, like in the…
Let’s look at building a simple class. A dice class. If we think of a dice, we know there are different types. We’ll look at something simple like a standard six sided dice. Defining the Class We need to define the class. This starts off similar to a lot of Python. We’ll have a class…
Class vs Object One of the big questions about OOP is what is a class, vs what is an object. A class, sometimes called class definition, tells us what the object will look like. What internal variables they are using, and what methods will be used to access and control those values. However, it is…
There are various forms of programming, and programming languages. The three most common you will find are listed below, procedural, then functional, and finally object oriented. Each of these have their own benefits and drawbacks. We’re going to look at a high level at these, and see how it will help us move forward in…
Buttons are used for various purposes on a web page, like submitting a form. And sometimes we want a link to look like a button, and have to figure out how to make that work. Luckily, Bootstrap has given us several classes to make working with buttons and building buttons much easier! This includes both…
Getting a person’s attention is an increasingly difficult task. As a web designer, one of your jobs is to make sure the viewer of your webpage is drawn to the information they need. One way to do it, is with a clear, and simple design. Here’s a link to an Introduction to Visual Design if…
