Suzanne Calling

I think I missed a couple of semesters, but this is one of the rare occasions where I'm not typing documents on the computer...

Over the summer, I learned a little bit about JavaScript before I learned my limitations and waved the white flag and dropped the class. The professor for that class posted the syllabus and book material after the semester started, took a hands-off approach to teaching the course, and looked over my code when I was having problems, declared it good-but didn't offer any suggestions of what to do to get it to work on my machine. Basically, I needed someone who could tell me why good code wasn't working. When I dropped the class, I consoled myself with the belief that this course is better suited to a 15 week semester with a professor there to answer my questions in real time. Tonight, I had my first class of the same course and I was more than a little worried about it. I'd wondered if this was going to be an exercise in futility-as well as a minor worry that he'd tell me I was crazy for taking both of these courses in the same semester. At least I had...

1. It doesn't seem to like me coding it in Dreamweaver split view. 2. It doesn't show up in my Safari browser window because, apparently, Safari 5.0.5 is incompatible with it. 3. I'll have to downgrade my version of Safari to 4.0.5 to fix this issue. 4. JavaScript was native to Netscape Navigator, and as such, the textbook we're using for class recommends coding and debugging in this browser. 5. Netscape Navigator hasn't been around since 2007, which gives you an idea how old this book is. 6. The textbook also suggests utilizing a text editor named Homesite, as it's the author's absolute favorite for coding JavaScript. 7. That website and associated product has been gone since 2009. 8. That this *slightly* outdated textbook would have cost $443.00 to print out, had I chosen to do so via Staple's website. 9. In store, with the THREE binders and 744 pages printed, it cost just under $80.00 to have a hard copy of the textbook that I could mark up and hig...