Improve Your PowerPoint & Design skills by Andrew Pach on SkillShare
For charts, include key points as separate items in text on the slide (helps with clarity! most people are terrible at reading charts)
Take time to build versatile, useful templates for the primary slides (allows for more interesting and complicated slide designs that would be too complicated to design individually)
Make good choices on slide templates (a cool slide with limited uses just adds junk to sift through)
Javascript: Gentle Introduction for Beginners by Chris Dixon on SkillShare
Javascript is a programming language used to make things interactive,as standalone applications,
- Works offline!
Manipulate DOM means manipulating the CSS or HTML content
Emmet plugin adds content that needs to be in all HTML files (or other file types) automatically
Link to JS file from HTML file
Minor amounts of JS can also be put in HTML file (use script tag)
Strings are sequences of characters
Variables
Use var tag
<script>
Var variablename = “what variable represents”;
</script>
Allows you to reference back to one place for a piece of info
*Think about a formula calculator
For long “strings” of text or info, include it in single or double quotes
Challenge: Display user’s score
<script>
var player = “Name”;
var score = 0;
var displayScore = “<h3>” + player + “‘s” + “ score is” + score + “ points</h3>”;
</script>
Take note on how spaces between words and data need to be included within the quotes
<h3> tag sets text as header 3
.concat at the end of a string allows you to concatenate it with another string
.split will allow you to split strings
You can reformat text using Javascript