Programming By Stealth

By Bart Busschots & Allison SheridanTechnology

Programming By Stealth episodes

November 04, 2018 PBS 66 of X - Bootstrap Form Validation
HTML 5 gives us form validation for free, but it's not very nuanced. In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart will show us how to use Bootstrap to make our form validation a little less shouty and more useful for the viewer. He shows us how to take a little control, how to take a lot of control and how to take supreme control. That last bit scared me when he introduced it but he does a fantastic job of breaking down the building blocks for us. He builds up the form validation in logical steps, using tools we already know (but might have to dust off a bit.)
1 hr 34 min
October 22, 2018 PBS 65 of X — Bootstrap Input Groups
Chit Chat Across the Pond this week was Programming By Stealth installment 65 of X. This time Bart takes us through Bootstrap Input Groups. These are really cool. Think about a form that has information you have to fill in, but you're never sure what they're asking for. If they ask for money, what currency do they mean? Are you supposed to include the numbers after the decimal or not? With Bootstrap input groups you can put little symbols or words before or after the input field to make it obvious. As with all things Bootstrap, it's not something that can't be done in HTML, but it's so much easier to make them pretty and elegant without being a designer.
1 hr 1 min
October 05, 2018 PBS 64 - Bootstrap Form Layouts
In this Programming By Stealth episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bart Busschots teaches us about three more types of Bootstrap Form Layouts. It's not too tough of a lesson and we had a lot of fun working through the lesson. You can find Bart's full written tutorial at bartbusschots.ie/....
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57 min
September 23, 2018 PBS 63 of X — Bootstrap Buttons
This week in Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots and I spend a fair amount of time going over the homework challenge from PBS 62. The nuances combined with some refresher on how the pieces fit together was something I really needed so hopefully I wasn't alone. The new part of the episode is dedicated to the all-important Bootstrap Button. We'll learn how to turn things into buttons and why you might want to do that, and we'll learn how to make Button Toolbars which are really slick and pretty. We don't have new homework for this week but if you're like me you need time to properly finish last week's homework.
You can find Bart's tutorial and solution to the challenge at bartbusschots.ie/...
Support Bart on Patreon!
1 hr 9 min
September 16, 2018 PBS 62 of X — A Basic Bootstrap Form
This week's Programming By Stealth was great fun. Bart Busschots teaches us how to create a web form using the Bootstrap classes to do the job. He explains how Bootstrap literally insists that we make our code accessible, and how sensible it is to just that. We learn the importance of Form Groups, and how Checkboxes and Radio Buttons are a slightly different type of input to a form and so have their own Bootstrap class. It's great fun and the challenges look like fun too.
At the end of the episode I added what Bart likes to call a Palate Cleanser. I've been following a woman named Samantha Ming on Twitter and samanthaming.com where she posts fun little CSS and HTML tricks. I learned how to make the caret on an input field blink in pink, and how to make regular HTML text on a web page be editable.
Bart's tutorial for this episode is available at bartbusschots.ie/...
1 hr 12 min
August 30, 2018 PBS 61 of X — Bootstrap Jumbotrons & Badges
In this week's installment, Bart explains how to create two simple Bootstrap components, the Jumbotron and badges. A Jumbotron is a show-case area at the top of a website's front page that shouts out the site's main message and usually has a call to action. Badges are the little bubbles next to titles or within buttons that contain extra information. Often they contain a number, such as number of unread messages, or a short phrase like "New!" or "Best Value". It's a pretty easy lesson and the homework looks fun too as we figure out how to add badges to count the number of open alert windows and add a Jumbotron to our work.
52 min
August 13, 2018 PBS 60 of X - Bootstrap & jQuery
In this week's installment of Programming By Stealth Bart introduces us to Bootstrap Components how we can use jQuery to extend Bootstrap. This is the first baby step into JavaScript with Bootstrap. I'm glad Bart started slowly because my JavaScript muscles are just a bit stiff and dusty. You can find Bart's tutorial over at bartbusschots.ie/.... Please consider supporting Bart's work on Patreon.
1 hr 6 min
July 29, 2018 PBS 59 of X — More Bootstrap Breakpoints
Bart takes us back to Bootstrap content, now that we know all about breakpoints. He never told us when we were looking at things like margins and float and the display tag that they are also breakpoint-aware, because we didn't know about breakpoints yet. It's an easy lesson and it's great fun to learn more about how responsive design is done with Bootstrap.
You can follow along with the audio with Bart's awesome tutorials at bartbusschots.ie/...
51 min
July 15, 2018 PBS 58 of X - Bootstrap Breakpoints
In this week's installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots explains Bootstrap breakpoints. Breakpoints allow the designer to define how a web page reacts depending on the size of the viewer's screen. He explains how through some very simple Bootstrap classes, we can allow a semantic tag to be in the "correct" order for screen readers and search engines, and yet have the layout be visually appropriate across all screen sizes.
Follow along with Bart's detailed tutorial shownotes at bartbusschots.ie/...
0 min
July 01, 2018 PBS 57 of X - the Bootstrap Grid
Things take a turn for the mind-bendy in this installment about Bootstrap as Bart Busschots explains the Bootstrap Grid. He teaches us how containers have rows, rows have columns and the number 12 is really important. In the end he leads me to understanding but it was a bit of a bumpy road getting me there. You'll probably swim right through it without difficulty because of Bart's fabulous shownotes at bartbusschots.ie/.... If you a
1 hr 20 min

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A collaborative project between Bart Busschots and Allison Sheridan to sneak up on real programming in small easy steps, using the allure of the web as the carrot to entice people forward.