Friday, October 17, 2014

How to Break Down Skills

Today I learned the idea of breaking skills down into mini skills.  For instance, if I’m going to practice one of the sub skills in writing, such as learning how to craft suspenseful sentences, I will spend time practicing on this one skill for an entire week to greatly improve it.  The idea is that by practicing this sub skill you will increase its level.
The sub skill can be an attribute like strength (headlines), agility (suspenseful sentences), or intelligence (master sentences).  The character is writing itself and when you work on strength (sub skill) you gain experience and increase the characters strength.
After learning about this I decided to break down the mockup website into sub skills.  Image responsiveness, grid (rows, columns), modals, DOM tree, CSS:classes, HTML:head, HTML:body, Bootstrap, Javascript, and Jquery. 

I also plan on breaking skills down for project 2: resume, setting aside time to work on deliberate practice of the skills.  One deliberate practice I will do for a week is try and replicate the grid design of different websites, focusing only on rows and columns.  I believe this will sharpen my eye for detail and give me experience with different grid designs.

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