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.