Programming By Stealth

By Bart Busschots & Allison SheridanTechnology

Programming By Stealth episodes

March 18, 2016 PBS 11 of x - Tables
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/...
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March 04, 2016 PBS 10 of x - Yet More CSS
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/
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February 20, 2016 PBS 9 of x - More CSS Positioning
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/....
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February 07, 2016 PBS 8 of x - CSS Positioning
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/....
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January 23, 2016 PBS 7 of x -More CSS
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/....
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January 09, 2016 PBS 6 of x - Introducing CSS
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.
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December 28, 2015 PBS 5 of x - HTML Images & Links
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/.
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November 21, 2015 PBS 4 of x - HTML In-line Elements
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.
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November 08, 2015 PBS 3 of X - HTML Block Elements
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.
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October 24, 2015 PBS 2 of X - Introducing HTML
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.
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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.