Confession: I’m a recovering perfectionist. I try to get everything just right the first time and that hold me back a lot. For example, I’ve worked on my WordPress boilerplate for the last few weeks and yes it’s a boilerplate that I should use for other projects but having not completed it is sort of …
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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 …
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 …