Healthy Sized Granules

Benjamin Reinecke
Aug 31, 2018 · 1 min read

Squinting my eyes at the Bootstrap documentation page, I was about 6 hours in. My task was to read through the documentation of three of the top CSS frameworks. There had to be a quicker way to get to the objective of this checkpoint. They couldn’t actually want me to read through all the documentation in its entirety. I asked myself 2 questions: 1. What is my return on investment on this? and 2. What is it that this checkpoint wants me to learn?

I realized that I couldn’t just read through everything. I decided that my best return on investment in this task was threefold: 1. Determine what are the major pros and cons of each of these frameworks. 2. Scan the headings of each section simply to see what the framework offers, not exactly how it implements each. 3. Recognize that I can implement most of these CSS styling features by adding the appropriate class name to the appropriate HTML tag.

My take away is that when somebody gives me a large, unspecified task, that I’ll take it in levels. For example, start reading only the headings of the sections to get an idea of what its about. Then dive deeper into some of the heading descriptions. Then, if needed, I can go deeper into the implementation.