Marie talks with Christina Gorton about how she uses CodePen to learn as well as teach code. Christina has a new Skillshare course that shows you how to learn to code by creating art.
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Time Jumps
- 1:00 Who is Christina Gorton?
- 2:05 Tell us about the Skillshare course.
- 8:25 What attracted you to being a front end developer?
- 11:55 Moms Can Code
- 14:50 What did you have in mind for the target person for your course?
- 16:30 Being creative with what you build to learn and keep it interesting.
- 17:50 CodePen is a great way to learn preprocessors
- 21:15 The SVG Phoenix
- 22:30 CodePen Presentation Mode and other hidden CodePen features
- 26:10 What are you learning about right now?
Show Links
- Christina Gorton on CodePen
- Christina Gorton on Twitter
- Marie on CodePen / Marie on Twitter
- “Learn Code by Creating Art: Developing CSS Skills in CodePen” on Skillshare
- Coffee Craft Code
- 100 Days of Code
- Spray painting with CSS
- Moms Can Code
- Paint with CSS: Persistence of Pizza
- Sarah Drasner on CodePen
- VueJS