very opinionated thoughts on the web, by tiff

daily progress

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 1. This baffled me. How could I know

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 1. I saw an issue where a guy implemented using his GitHub Project Page

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 1 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

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 2016 Today’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

ES6 and Lambdas

I am taking the JavaScript ES6 course on Treehouse [https://teamtreehouse.com/library/introducing-es2015]. 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.