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I have always found it much easier to write almost everything down when learning in an educational environment. I seem to find the act of writing it down helps it sink into my head. I did lots of this at both college and university and I think it was time well spent.

Some people record lectures with their smartphone or a dicta-phone, I used to sit there with a pen and notebook. In the digital age and certainly when the laptop is my only source of education, this time, and writing in a notebook is not always practical.

Internet browsers such as Google Chrome, Edge, Firefox etc all have ‘tabbed browsing’ which makes it very easy for me to have a Google document open on one and my code camp on another. This is my Code Camp learning method.

My method

All I do is copy and paste the whole question into the Google document – formatting holds very well and document tabs are automatically created. Once I have completed the question I then copy and paste my code into the Google document just below its relevant question. I notice that the formatting is again kept the same – very useful.

The beauty of all of this is that when I find myself having to create a similar piece of code whether that is CSS or HTML, I can just look back over the document and find it. Further to this there are two other tools I use; a reference book and YouTube.

Helpful resources

The reference book, written by John Duckett ‘HTML and CSS Design and Build Websites‘ I find really useful as it lays out on a page, the result of code written and explains about the different ways to approach your CSS when planning your work. The YouTube channel I have most useful is created by Landon Schlangen who has a very good pace method that works well for me. I have embedded his video below for the landing page project which is where I am now in my journey on FreeCodeCamp.