Trying to repair a computer this weekend has involved self-tutoring. The tutor mentions the beloved “blue screen with white bird near green branch.” If you don’t know the screen mentioned in the title, you might be lucky. I’ve encountered it…
Trying to repair a computer this weekend has involved self-tutoring. The tutor mentions the beloved “blue screen with white bird near green branch.” If you don’t know the screen mentioned in the title, you might be lucky. I’ve encountered it…
Tutoring, I just love to bring up neat new topics. The tutor mentions word-spacing. This sentence has no word-spacing set. This sentence has word-spacing at 150% (which apparently doesn’t change the rendering). This sentence has word-spacing at 1em. This sentence…
Yard work is constant self-tutoring. The tutor shares an observation from it. Today I was disassembling some reinforcements made last fall for an abandoned project. The reinforcements were triangular, consisting of landscaping ties and 2×6 boards fastened with lag screws.…
Tutoring English, definitions are useful. The tutor distinguishes between two types of nouns. Concrete noun: a noun that can be perceived with one of the five senses. Therefore, book, thud (from something hitting the ground), aroma (as from coffee), pin-prick…
Tutoring English, this topic is a classic. The tutor recalls hearing it decades ago…. A modifier gives more meaning to its sentence, but isn’t the main idea. Some examples (with modifiers in italics): Sitting around the campfire, we noticed a…
Tutoring Java programming, you might be asked to clarify about overriding. The tutor shares some thoughts. In Java, when you override a method, you either define its performance (give it a “body”), or else redefine (change) its performance . Case…
Tutoring Java programming, this error message might come up. The tutor talks about a couple of its causes. The message error: non-static method MethodX() cannot be referenced from a static context has a couple of causes I know: The class…
Tutoring, definitions are important. The tutor shares the difference between CSS properties and html attributes. A CSS property is something you change to affect the appearance of an element. For instance, the color property can be set to the color…
Anyone tutoring web design knows that CSS is practically a universe. The tutor mentions CSS resize. To make a div element resizable on a desktop, the CSS property resize can be used. For example, the resizable div This div is…