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daily progress

A collection of 33 issues

Event Handlers in Check Yo Self

Since starting Check Yo Self a month ago, I have been at a loss as to what the logic should be, how to register click event handlers with jQuery, basically everything I learned the past two years, I drew a blank on . This baffled me. How could I know so

Check Yo Self Update: Eliminating Dev Dependencies

I worked like a fiend over the weekend on Check Yo Self, reading documentation, implementing features, and taking some away. Going over the write-good issues on GitHub to see how if it could parse extra characters . I saw an issue where a guy implemented using his GitHub Project Page to

Hacking on a Project: Getting Out of the Tutorial Loop

For a long time now, I have been increasingly bothered by my lack of Open Source contributions on GitHub and of real world projects to put on my portfolio and resume. Everyday, practically, for the past two months, I have been irritated, by my lack of production. I have the

Hacking with Java Algorithms

So I have been pretty knee deep in algorithms and Java lately. Coming from Free Code Camp last spring, I have found that I’m finally understanding the methods, algorithms, etc, that I am currently working on in class. One of the best parts about CS0401 is Tim Hoffman, the

100 Days of Code, Day 10: 30 October 2016

Today’s Progress:This is for yesterday. I worked on my “Captivating Contacts App”. I added the navbar plus some other pages. I played around with some of the bootstrap elements that I couldn’t get to work. I did it for an hour, maybe two. Thoughts:Since I am

100 Days of Code Day 9

Day 9: 27 October 2016Today’s Progress:It’s been a while! I programmed quite a bit but didn’t write anything. So it’s 100 Days of Code Day 9 for me. I whipped up some cool JavaScript from CSS-Tricks website to help with the search on the Pricing

ES6 and Lambdas

I am taking the JavaScript ES6 course on Treehouse. I should have waited a bit, as I am still learning ES5. Eric Elliott made the case that newbies should be learning ES6 right now as it is the current standard. So I am diving in. One of the things that

Plan for Success

So, in two weeks, I will be back at Pitt. I know I’ve talked about it a lot but I am honestly excited. I joined the College of General Studies Student Government in the hopes to meet some cool older folks to hang out with. I’ve been here

Random Quote Generator Finale

So I am finally finished with the Free Code Camp Random Quote Generator. I can breathe a sigh of relief until next project. I finished it at 1 am yesterday morning. I wasn’t going to sleep until it was finished and I didn’t. I tweaked it well into

Knowing Your Limits

I had to give up on my Random Quote Generator design. It was far too difficult for my skill level. I didn’t want to admit this. I still want to build it. I still think I can, and maybe I can, but not right now. Hubris maybe a factor