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GirlThatLovesToCode

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A unique blend of social work graduate and self-taught programmer. I wish to empower and support all who are trying to learn to code, especially women. Fan of Python and good friend with CSS.

#ChooseToChallenge: Don't just bring me flowers

Mar 3, 20218 min read

When I was a teenager, March 8 was just a day that women got flowers. But in the last few years, International Women's day became more and more important to me. As blog posts of my fellow coder's show, we're nowhere near the goal of men and women bei...

Dipping my toes in Test-Driven Development with Python

Mar 1, 202110 min read

Intro When you start learning you create an application, maybe even deploy it on some free server, but that's it. There is no unsatisfied customer that found some error, there is no client that changed their requirements 3 hours after you pushed to p...

Delightful accordion

Feb 19, 202117 min read

Accordions are useful when you want to present key information right away and give interested users the ability to learn more about the topic with a single click. In this tutorial, you'll create a stylish accordion. Along the way, you'll learn how to...

RegEx by example (Python)

Feb 11, 202111 min read

Introduction Regular Expression or RegEx for short is a tiny language that allows you to search matches in strings. In Python, it is accessible through the re module. Using it, you can check if the string is in the correct format, if the string cont...

CSS specificity - What overwrites what

Jan 27, 202115 min read

Introduction We access elements we want to style in different ways, depending on what we want to style. Tags for general styling, classes for a group of elements, and IDs for single elements. But sometimes we need to overwrite a particular set of ele...

Help! I need some motivation.

Jan 13, 202117 min read

There are so many tips on how to be productive and motivated. Here I listed some of the things that are working for me. You don't need to follow all of them. What works for someone, maybe won't work for you, so feel free to cherry-pick. At the botto...

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