Sunday, March 1, 2015

Day 77: Head First Javascript and Treehouse Javascript Loops Course

Today I continued working on the battleship game.  

As a side note, I'm changing my study habits to a goal of 4 hours a day, instead of 4.5, because round numbers are more pleasant to work with, lol.  I'll probably do an extra .5 today just to end up with a total number of hours that's a whole number.  What I like about a 4 hours goal is that if I do a "double" shift on some days, it comes out to the usual 8 hr workday, and if I do a "triple" shift, it comes out to 12 hours, which still leaves time for comfortable meals, a little socializing, and an errand or two.  I think it's an overall improvement, the main drawback is that I end up "short" 3.5 hours a week, but as long as I can squeeze in one "double" shift a week, that becomes  a non-issue in regards to my goal of 1000 hours by July 29th, 2015.

All right, I have quite a lot of work to do, back to the battleship game!  

I was introduced to the do while loop today.  It's similar to the do while loop, except that the do while loop always runs at least once, unlike the while loop, which may not run even once if the condition is not met the first time the code is run.

Programmers call the process of improving a program "refactoring."  I completed a Treehouse badge today, "Javascript Loops."

SUMMARY OF CODING SKILLS

Total Treehouse Points: 5,280

Treehouse Points by Subject Matter (Miscellaneous not included): 
HTML:                                663 
CSS:                                1,599 
Design:                            1,193 
Development Tools:            747 
Javascript:                      1,015

Treehouse Ranking (%): "You have more total points than 94% of all students."

Treehouse Badge(s) Earned Today:

Javascript Loops

Treehouse Courses Completed:
How to Make a Website
HTML
CSS Foundations
CSS Layout Techniques
Aesthetic Foundations
Design Foundations
Adobe Photoshop Foundations
Adobe Illustrator Foundations (66% complete, switched focus from web design to web dev)
Git Basics
Introduction to Programming
Javascript Basics

Codecademy (& other) Courses Completed:
HTML and CSS (Codecademy) 

Books Read or in Progress:

Completed: "Head First HTML and CSS," by E. Robson & E. Freeman
In Progress: "Eloquent JavaScript," by Marijn Haverbeke (On pg 27)
In Progress: "Head First Javascript," by Eric Freeman and Elisabeth Robson (On pg 56)

My Progress on The Odin Project:
1.  Introduction to Web Development             100% Complete
2.  Web Development 101                                29% Complete
3.  Ruby Programming                                       0% Complete
4.  Ruby on Rails                                               0% Complete
5.  HTML5 and CSS3                                           0% Complete
6.  Javascript and JQuery                                  0% Complete
7.  Getting Hired as a Web Developer                 0% Complete

Hours Spent Coding Today: 4.5
Total Hours Coding: 370

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