So my daughter started school last week. No, seriously. At 2 1/2 years of age, my daughter is learning from a pre-school kit my wife purchased a little while back. For 90 minutes a day, my wife if teaching my daughter colors, shapes, and numbers. I watched them for a few minutes the other day, and it was extremely funny, cute, and exhilarating to watch — one of those moments where you’re a really proud dad.
My daughter loves to learn what my wife is teaching her. She soaks up every little bit. She loves learning new colors, playing matching games with them, and making crafts with materials of those colors. School and I didn’t get along nearly as much. Now don’t get me wrong, I could learn how to play a video game like it was nobody’s business; but don’t get me started on math. School was a necessary evil to me. And unfortunately, for so many people involved in the web, CSS (or Cascading-Style-Sheets) is a necessary evil as well. This attitude leads to unclean, sloppy, and often buggy design.
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