Last post I write about my growing interest in using Sass for CSS development. First I’ll review some of what I learned in the Sass Essentials Training course and then review my top takeaways from the CSS to Sass: Converting an Existing Site video course in part 2 of this series. In the Sass Essentials …
This Week in Coding: #003
So before I get into everything – I’ve had an interesting week and unfortunately it’s coming to an end with bad news … RIP Prince :-(. I started off the week strong-ish, hoping to through everything I outlined in my previous weekly update, but I didn’t make a dint in that list. Not to say …
FreeCodeCamp: Basic Front End Development Projects – Review – Part 1
Basic Front End Development Project #1: Tribute Page *completed on 4/18/16 The first basic front end development project is a tribute page. You’re asked to create a page fulfilling two user stories: 1) include text & images 2) link to an external web page for more information on the person you created a tribute page …
FreeCodeCamp: jQuery – Review
Just wanted to record everything I learned, although I took physical notes (ha! yes in the digital age, there are people still handwriting notes). The jQuery portion was a very high-level overview introducing functions and how they can be used to modify HTML/CSS and enhance the page. jQuery notes: All jQuery functions begin with $. …
This Week in Coding: #002
Got unnecessarily busy towards the end of the last week so I was not able to log my activities for the week, but here they are! Self-paced coding activities: Completed the HTML5/CSS section of FreeCodeCamp.com. Completed the Responsive Design w/Bootstrap exercises on FreeCodeCamp.com. Reading Materials Intro to Bootstrap (will need to go through each individual …
An introduction to CSS preprocessors
I saw that one of the local bootcamps was hosting a crash course on Sass so I decided to enroll to see what it’s about. I have no experience with Sass and until I started googling it the night before the crash course, was absolutely confused about how it could help with css and what …
FreeCodeCamp: HTML5/CSS
I finally started the FreeCodeCamp curriculum today, beginning with HTML5/CSS. I’m pretty proficient in both so it was a welcome refresher. I completed that section of the course in 2-3 hours, although they estimated 5. It included 68 mini-lessons or challenges, as they’re referred to in the curriculum. I watched Love & Hip Hop ATL …
Learning Git and GitHub
Note to self & others: The folks at CodeNewbie suggested blogging for beginners and while I’m not a complete beginner, I’m not sure that my blogging is meaningful at this stage. There’s a lot I don’t know and I’m not able to fully explain. As a writer it’s difficult to share these “half-thoughts” and under-developed …
This Week in Coding: #001
This week was very lowkey as far as activity. I plan to actually have assignment-based goals for next week as I kind of fell off for a bit due to a number of personal things I needed to complete. Either way, below is a list of the what I completed this week. I attended a …
a few thoughts on programming & “technical ghettos”
I read this article a few weeks and the title is hella triggering. While I see where they’re going, I think a few things are off. With all the talk about how certain jobs in tech are in demand and everyone needs to run, sprint to school to learn all of these critical keys needed …