Sunday, March 13, 2016

Day 205: Harvard CS50 (Computer Science Course), Week 0

All right, I took yesterday mostly off to do some networking and give advice to newbies on Facebook, and now I'm back to work.

Since I've now earned my front end certification at Free Code Camp, I'm switching gears and turning my focus towards completing Harvard's CS50 class, which I was given as an assignment for The Coding Boot Camp at UT Austin.  

I've got to complete this computer science class before the boot camp starts on April 19th.

I'm going over ASCII, Binary, and Scratch, which is a program that allows us to practice programming via a graphical interface.

Our assignment for problem set 0 is to create a game with scratch that:


  • Your project must have at least two sprites, at least one of which must resemble something other than a cat.
  • Your project must have at least three scripts total (i.e., not necessarily three per sprite).
  • Your project must use at least one condition, one loop, and one variable.
  • Your project must use at least one sound.
  • Your project should be more complex than most of those demonstrated in lecture (many of which, though instructive, were quite short) but it can be less complex than, say, Pikachu’s Pastry Catch and Ivy’s Hardest Game. As such, your project should probably use a few dozen puzzle pieces overall.
All right, let me get to it.

O.k., I made a pretty awesome game.  So, there's a thunderstorm and lightning is flashing all around, and the mother bat needs to save the baby bat from the storm!  Here's a pic!




Neat, that was fun!  Here's what code looks like on that platform, although this is only one piece of code:




Good stuff!

Ok, I completed PSET0 and submitted my Scratch game, so I'm done with Week 0!  Time to move on to Week 1!

I pulled an all-nighter, it's 7:24 a.m., but I'm not going to credit the hours after midnight to this post, I'll only credit the 2.5 hours I coded before midnight to the post, and I'll credit the 6 hours that I coded after midnight to the next post.


SUMMARY OF CODING SKILLS 

Books:                                                                                               Status
"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 Dev Track 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
12. Intermediate Algorithm Scripting                                                     Complete
13. Advanced Front End Development Projects                                       Complete
14. Claim Your Front End Development Certificate                              Complete

Harvard CS50: Intro to Comp Sci                                                             Status
12 Week Course (Plus Week 0), Pre-Work for UT Boot Camp                  Week 1 of 12

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 Projects: http://codepen.io/Adancode/
GitHub Projects: https://github.com/Adancode
LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamcamacho1
Team Treehouse Profile: https://teamtreehouse.com/adamcamacho
Free Code Camp Profile: http://www.freecodecamp.com/adancode

Hours Spent Coding Today: 2.5
Total Hours Coding: 1,074.5

No comments:

Post a Comment