It’s finally over. That day that I have been dreading since week 1 of semester 2 2014, the horrifying HTML exam is DONE. To be honest, I am not quite sure why I was as nervous as I was. Maybe because I feel the need to be so particular, prepared, and anxious about any sort of “professional” job or task that I am being judged on. “I am at university, this is serious s**t, this is an exam, I need to do well”, was all that was running through my head. Upon entering the class I realised that I was not in the same boat, everyone was nervous to some degree…I mean…who wouldn’t be? I know that we had already gone through this process the week before, but I haven’t used HTML since my junior years at high school and I am afraid I am getting old.
So there I am, sitting in my chair, trying to remember all the different codes and little symbols for HTML before we were allowed to start. Let’s see…<> to start a command, </> to end it, h is header, p is paragraph, I am sorted. The sheets were handed out and we were allowed to start.
The one thing I forgot to do before I should have started anything else was to type <!DOCTYPE html> at the start of the code. I had already started doing everything else for my first page and completely forgot about this crucial step. Never mind, at least I remembered about 5-10 minutes into the test so it was no problem.
My memory was serving me well, I was following the sheet thoroughly and everything seemed to come back to me. The only real issue I had was forgetting to put the “.au” after “.org” for the Mediafactory website. Other than that, there were no troubles! However It did take me ages to do, and I can’t help but think about all the other different types of codes there are such as C++ and how people can do this all day, every day. I take my hat off to them. It really is a useful skill and I feel that the possibilities with yourself and the Internet are grown exponentially by knowing even the basics of HTML coding.
My website/HTML page/exam can be viewed here.
“Internet1” by Rock1997 – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.