All right, so today is day 7 of my 7 day, 12 hours a day challenge. I went 6 out of 7 so far, with one day only studying 10.5 hours, but I made up for that with several other days over 12, including one at 14.5. So all in all, it was a great week.
Now, I would really like to top off this week with the completion of the wikipedia viewer project from FCC. I was stuck on that project for quite a while before taking a break on it to delve into other areas of the front end on Team Treehouse, and it would be a nice cherry on top to finish off the week. One of the courses I took at Team Treehouse this week was on Ajax, and it covered jsonp and how we use it to get around the errors I kept running into while working on my wikipedia viewer project.
So, I'm going to use what I learned over there and give this project another go today!
All right, so first, this screenshot:
That's a good start.
Okay, that took me several hours, but I SOLVED IT!
Woohoo!
Here's a screenshot, with bare bones CSS:
So awesome, my hard work this week paid off! Yes!
The main issue that was causing me difficulties was wrapping the request in JSONP, which can also be done by appending callback=? to the end of the request.
Also, I used an app called postman, which was a great help for this challenge, I highly recommend you install it, if you, my one reader (most likely zero) reader, is reading this, haha!
Over the past week, I've become much more comfortable with documentation, I've learned how to navigate it better, and how to quickly find what I'm looking for...it's great!
All right, so now I want to make the wikipedia project look nice, so I'm going to go take a course on flat design...or, I could start working on the next project, the twitch.tv API project...
All right, I went over the twitch.tv API and explored the documentation and the twitch site a bit, but I'm calling it a day. It's been a long week, and I'm closing it out feeling very accomplished.
Clocking out at 8 hours today, for a total of about 83 hours.
I'm going to treat myself to a movie, at home, in the comfort of my room, I don't feel liike going out right now, I feel like resting and kicking butt again tomorrow morning once I'm refreshed!
Tomorrow I'll come up with a study plan for the rest of the days before school. I'm thinking if I put in 8 hours a day, minimum, that leaves me a lot of time to go out for walks and for a swim in the forest, which I love doing, while still allowing me to make solid gains, and I can always study more than the minimum any day I'm so inclined.
8 hours a day, 7 days a week, would put me at 56 hours a week, but that's a minimum, so I'll end up doing more most weeks, with the exceptions of the one week a month when I spend two or three days down in South Texas visiting my mom and dad, but that's okay, priorities are priorities.
Also, I may be able to actually get more done in less time, as with only an 8 hour requirement, my mind will always be fresh when I code.
We'll test this strategy out for a week and then reassess depending on the results.
I'm looking forward to tomorrow and a good walk in the forest and a swim at Barton Springs!
Now, I would really like to top off this week with the completion of the wikipedia viewer project from FCC. I was stuck on that project for quite a while before taking a break on it to delve into other areas of the front end on Team Treehouse, and it would be a nice cherry on top to finish off the week. One of the courses I took at Team Treehouse this week was on Ajax, and it covered jsonp and how we use it to get around the errors I kept running into while working on my wikipedia viewer project.
So, I'm going to use what I learned over there and give this project another go today!
All right, so first, this screenshot:
That's a good start.
Okay, that took me several hours, but I SOLVED IT!
Woohoo!
Here's a screenshot, with bare bones CSS:
So awesome, my hard work this week paid off! Yes!
The main issue that was causing me difficulties was wrapping the request in JSONP, which can also be done by appending callback=? to the end of the request.
Also, I used an app called postman, which was a great help for this challenge, I highly recommend you install it, if you, my one reader (most likely zero) reader, is reading this, haha!
Over the past week, I've become much more comfortable with documentation, I've learned how to navigate it better, and how to quickly find what I'm looking for...it's great!
All right, so now I want to make the wikipedia project look nice, so I'm going to go take a course on flat design...or, I could start working on the next project, the twitch.tv API project...
All right, I went over the twitch.tv API and explored the documentation and the twitch site a bit, but I'm calling it a day. It's been a long week, and I'm closing it out feeling very accomplished.
Clocking out at 8 hours today, for a total of about 83 hours.
I'm going to treat myself to a movie, at home, in the comfort of my room, I don't feel liike going out right now, I feel like resting and kicking butt again tomorrow morning once I'm refreshed!
Tomorrow I'll come up with a study plan for the rest of the days before school. I'm thinking if I put in 8 hours a day, minimum, that leaves me a lot of time to go out for walks and for a swim in the forest, which I love doing, while still allowing me to make solid gains, and I can always study more than the minimum any day I'm so inclined.
8 hours a day, 7 days a week, would put me at 56 hours a week, but that's a minimum, so I'll end up doing more most weeks, with the exceptions of the one week a month when I spend two or three days down in South Texas visiting my mom and dad, but that's okay, priorities are priorities.
Also, I may be able to actually get more done in less time, as with only an 8 hour requirement, my mind will always be fresh when I code.
We'll test this strategy out for a week and then reassess depending on the results.
I'm looking forward to tomorrow and a good walk in the forest and a swim at Barton Springs!
SUMMARY OF CODING SKILLS
Books: Status
"Head First HTML and CSS," by E. Robson & E. Freeman Complete
"Head First HTML and CSS," by E. Robson & E. Freeman Complete
"A Smarter Way to Learn JavaScript," by Mark Myers Complete
"HTML and CSS," by Jon Duckett Complete
"JavaScript and JQuery," by Jon Duckett Complete
Team Treehouse (Front End Web DevTrack Complete): Status
How to Make a Website Complete
HTML Complete
HTML Forms Complete
HTML Tables Complete
HTML Video and Audio Complete
CSS Foundations Complete
CSS Basics Complete
CSS Layout Techniques Complete
CSS Layout Basics Complete
CSS Selectors Complete
Responsive Layouts Complete
CSS Flexbox Layout Complete
Git Basics Complete
Console Foundations Complete
Introduction to Programming Complete
JavaScript Basics Complete
JavaScript Loops, Arrays, & Objects Complete
AJAX Basics Complete
JQuery Basics Complete
Interactive Web pages with JavaScript Complete
Object-Oriented JavaScript Complete
Accessibility Complete
Website Optimization Complete
Front End Performance Optimization Complete
Aesthetic Foundations Complete
Design Foundations Complete
Adobe Photoshop Foundations Complete
Adobe Illustrator Foundations 66% Complete
Other Courses: Status
HTML and CSS (Codecademy) Complete
Introduction to Web Dev (The Odin Project) Complete
Web Dev 101 (The Odin Project) 33% Complete
Free Code Camp (FCC) Status
1. Get Started with Free Code Camp Complete
2. HTML5 and CSS Complete
3. Responsive Design with Bootstrap Complete
4. Gear up for Success Complete
5. jQuery Complete
6. Basic Front End Development Projects Complete
7. Basic JavaScript Complete
8. Object Oriented and Functional Programming Complete
9. Basic Algorithm Scripting Complete
10. JSON API's and Ajax Complete
11. Intermediate Front End Development Projects Complete
5. jQuery Complete
6. Basic Front End Development Projects Complete
7. Basic JavaScript Complete
8. Object Oriented and Functional Programming Complete
9. Basic Algorithm Scripting Complete
10. JSON API's and Ajax Complete
11. Intermediate Front End Development Projects Complete
12. Intermediate Algorithm Scripting Complete
13. Advanced Front End Development Projects On 4 of 6
14. Claim Your Front End Development Certificate
15. Automated Testing and Debugging
16. Node.js and Express.js
17. Git
18. MongoDB
19. API Projects
16. Node.js and Express.js
17. Git
18. MongoDB
19. API Projects
20. Dynamic Web Application Projects
21. Claim Your Back End Development Certificate
The Coding Boot Camp at UT Austin Status (starts 4/19/2016)
Week 1-6: Mastering the Browser (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery)
The Coding Boot Camp at UT Austin Status (starts 4/19/2016)
Week 1-6: Mastering the Browser (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery)
Week 7-10: API & JSON (RESTful API"s, parsing JSON, AJAX)
Week 11-14: Server Side (Node.js, MySQL, MongoDB)
Week 15-18: PHP (WordPress, CodeIgniter, Laravel)
Week 18-21: Full Stack Coding
Week 22-24: Final Project
CodePen: http://codepen.io/Adancode/
Week 22-24: Final Project
CodePen: http://codepen.io/Adancode/
GitHub: https://github.com/Adancode
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamcamacho1
Team Treehouse: https://teamtreehouse.com/adamcamacho
Free Code Camp: http://www.freecodecamp.com/adancode
Team Treehouse: https://teamtreehouse.com/adamcamacho
Free Code Camp: http://www.freecodecamp.com/adancode
Hours Spent Coding Today: 8
Total Hours Coding: 1,022
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