I won't expand on Michael's excellent summary of using SASS, but he did
leave out one crucial bit -- it comes in two formats, which causes some
confusion.  The format that Michael was describing is the second one, SCSS,
which is basically CSS with some fancy nesting patterns that you can't do
natively in CSS, as well as variables and math functions. The original
format, SASS, omitted the {} braces and used a whitespace indenting style,
purposely emulating Ruby and Python in that regard. SCSS has the shorter
learning curve and, in fact, you can just use your usual CSS to get started
go on from there. In SASS, you have to refactor all your old CSS to the new
format, but my understanding is that there may be some things you can do in
SASS that you can't do in SCSS (not sure what, though).

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Nate Hill <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Huh.  Michael, I'd love to know more about why I should care about SASS.
> I kinda like writing CSS.
> I see why LESS http://lesscss.org/ makes sense, but help me under stand
> why
> SASS does?
>
> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Ethan Gruber <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Google is more useful than any reference book to find answers to
> > programming problems.
> > On Nov 1, 2012 4:25 PM, "Bohyun Kim" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all code4lib-bers,
> > >
> > > As coders and coding librarians, what is ONE tool and/or resource that
> > you
> > > recommend to newbie coders in a library (and why)?  I promise I will
> > create
> > > and circulate the list and make it into a Code4Lib wiki page for
> > collective
> > > wisdom.  =)
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance!
> > > Bohyun
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> >
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