Programming By Stealth

In this week's episode of the continuing series with Bart Busschots, he introduces the concept of conditionals. We'll learn whether boogers is true or false, how Javascript handles text strings and numbers in comparisons (what's bigger or smaller), how equality is really three different things, and we'll learn about logical operators like AND, OR and NOT to be used in conditional statements. Bart has updated the Javascript Playground he created so be sure to grab the new version. The entire tutorial is available here: bartbusschots.ie/....

In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots dips our baby toe into Javascript. We learn the very basic building blocs, including how to make statements, how to make comments, three rules for variables, the difference between strings and numbers and what you can do with them, operators and concatenation. With the exception of the modulus section, I understood everything he said! Learn why this episode ends with the line, "Find out next week if boogers is true or false!" Find Bart's detailed tutorial at bartbusschots.ie/... including a link to his JavaScript Playground.

Finally, after many months of making us wait, Bart has decided it's time to look at tables on web pages. We’ll start by describing the HTML markup for tables, and then look at how to style them with CSS. Full tutorial at bartbusschots.ie/...

Check out the latest installment of Programming By Stealth from Bart Busschots. He takes me through four new CSS methods to style lists, he teaches me more CSS selectors, and then we get to play with pseudo-classes. It's great fun and I think I actually understood most of it! As always with the Programming By Stealth series, it's highly recommended that you follow along with Bart's amazing tutorial here: https://www.bartbusschots.ie/s/2016/03/04/programming-by-stealth-10-of-x-yet-more-css/

This week Bart introduces a visual tool he created just for us (well, for me) to help us really understand how the box model works in CSS. You can see his tool here: bartbusschots.ie/... and follow along with his detailed tutorial on More CSS Positioning here: bartbusschots.ie/....

Buckle up everyone - in this Installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart will dig in deep on explaining how to position the blocks we've learned about before onto our web page using CSS. It's a tough hill to climb but Bart stays patient with me till I THINK I've got it! You can find Bart's amazing tutorial at bartbusschots.ie/....

Bart Busschots joins us again for part 7 of his series Programming by Stealth. In this instalment we’ll build on our basic understanding of CSS from previous instalment. We’ll start with some new CSS selectors, in the process, introduce two new HTML tag attributes, then we’ll move on to the CSS box model. Each HTML tag is represented in the page as a box, and all those boxes can be manipulated with CSS. Find Bart's detailed tutorial at bartbusschots.ie/....

In the 6th installment of Bart Busschots' Programming by Stealth series, he introduces the concept of CSS to allow us to format our html pages. He gives us an overview of terminology, explains the different ways to add CSS to an HTML document, explains the basic syntax, and finally gives us some examples of text attribute changes. You can find his detailed shownotes at bartbusschots.ie/.... Also note that he's now created a short url for us to be able to see all of the Programming By Stealth tutorials all in one place (along with an adorable logo) at http://bartb.ie/pbs.

In this week's episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond we have Bart Busschots with another installment of Programming by Stealth. He covers the syntax for images and links in HTML and the attributes you can apply and more importantly why you should apply them. He promises that with the first 5 episodes under our belts we'll be ready to move on to understanding CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets. You can read along with his detailed tutorial and download the example files at \bartbusschots.ie/s/2015/12/27/programming-by-stealth-5-of-x-images-links/.

In the previous installment Bart introduced us to the concept of block-level tags, and in-line tags. Block level tags define blocks of text like headers, paragraphs and lists, and starting a new block-level tag generally starts a new line in the page. Inline tags on the other hand effect a part of a block, and opening an inline tag generally doesn’t start a new line. In the previous installment we looked at some of the most important block-level tags, in this installment we’ll look at some of the most common in-line tags.

In the previous instalment we introduced HTML, learned about HTML tags in the abstract, and looked at a basic template for all HTML pages. Over the next few instalments we’ll be working our way through the common HTML tags.

Bart Busschots is back with episode 2 of his Programming By Stealth series. He’ll take us on our first baby step towards programming by explaining how the Hyper-Text Markup Language works, better known to us all as HTML. HTML is not a true programming language, it is instead a simpler beast known as a markup language – it adds context to text. Bart’s companion tutorial can be found on his website at bartbusschots.ie/s/2015/10/23/programming-by-stealth-2-of-x-basic-html.

In this inaugural episode of Programming By Stealth, computer scientist and linux system admin Bart Busschots explains what his approach is going to be on teaching us to program. He plans to emphasize methods and concepts while teaching us specific languages along the way. As he says, "The tool you happen to use most today is unlikely to be the one you use most a decade from now." Bart has over 20 years of programming in X86 Assembler, BASIC, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, BASH, Lisp, Maple, Matlab, and more. We don't know how long this series will go, hence the "of X" in the title. The written tutorial that accompanies Bart’s Programming By Stealth – 1 of X can be found at bartbusschots.ie/s/2015/10/09/programming-by-stealth-1-of-x-introduction/.