brigleb/forkme — pull request #7 by cpodemayo (2013-08-25 19:32:00+00:00)
Title: Charlotte Koh's Needmore Answers

Hi Needmore!

I had never used Compass and Sass before and had only dabbled in GitHub during a workshop, so this was a pretty cool learning experience. I spent a few hours getting the hang of Compass and Sass, which was a lot less intimidating than I thought it would be. Github took me about an hour to get the hang of.

The majority of my time (about two hours or so every day after work, and most of Saturday) was spent poking and prodding in the browser to determine a nice design. I decided to build everything in plain old CSS first before diving into Sass, which I think helped make my transition a bit easier.

My only real issues came about when I was installing Ruby, and later when I was trying to use Github. I got a bit turned around with Ruby (I’m on a Windows machine) and ended up installing it, uninstalling it and installing it again before everything clicked for me. With GitHub, I encountered a few errors with GitHub for Windows, so I ended up using the command line, which was a lot less confusing.

Overall, this project was a lot of fun and I’m glad to have finally tried out Sass. Thank you for your consideration!

Charlotte Koh