Udemy Programming Class for the New Year

Each New Year Udemy offers a discount on their classes.  This year I signed up for about 5 classes.  One of the classes is Introduction to Modern Programming with PHP.  I decided to freshen up my skills and expand my knowledge a bit in the web development arena.  I love working with web applications, but I have never formally studied it.  Most of the time I have gained knowledge under the pressure of fixing something that is broke or because there was no one else available to work on it.  This year I decided to take control and learn at my own pace and enjoy what I am learning.

Two years ago I started playing around with Twitter Bootstrap and never went anywhere with it.  Last night and today I learned more about Twitter Bootstrap than I ever did fooling around on my own.  In the course I also learned about a wonderful Text editor named Atom.  I have been using Notepad and Adobe CS6 Dreamweaver to write code in and now I will always use Atom.

Here is a screen shot of Atom and my code for my Boot Strap page.
I have a live link to my UDEMY Introduction to modern programming with PHP. Class Section 3 Lecture 10 here.
My Bootstrap page with a table of cartoon characters.
I like building stuff, virtually as well as physically.  I cannot wait to build some stuff using my newly created MariaDB cluster.  For this class we are using the PostgreSQL database.  I guess I will have to build a PostgreSQL cluster next.

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