Day 212: More Responsive Design with Bootstrap (a refresher), and Starting on Foundation

All right, today I'm starting off with the "Build a Website with Bootstrap" section of the Framework Basics course.

We learned how to make a custom Bootstrap build.

Here's something I saw on Stack Exchange, regarding making a jumbotron take up the full width of the page:

From the bootstrap docs "To make the jumbotron full width, and without rounded corners, place it outside all .containers and instead add a .container within.

Okay, I finished the Bootstrap work, now I need to decide whether to move on to foundation, or start wire-framing and coding up my portfolio in Bootstrap.

I'm going to go ahead with learning Foundation, even though I want to build my site already, it's better if I learn Foundation first, because maybe after learning Foundation, I will prefer Foundation over Bootstrap, and if so, then I can build my portfolio in Foundation instead of Bootstrap.

All right, so, learning Foundation now.  So, Foundation is developed in SASS, a CSS pre-processor. 

Foundation uses zepto, which is like jQuery, but with a lighter footprint, which helps performance on mobile devices.  If we remove the zepto file, Foundation will fall back to jQuery however.

Today was a short day, tomorrow I plan on finishing the Foundation coursework, then starting on wireframing my portfolio with Balsamiq...that, or making my portfolio pieces responsive with Bootstrap and THEN working on the wireframing.

We'll see, but I've got plenty to do.

I'll watch Superman versus Batman also, we'll see if it's really as bad as some of the reviews make it out be.  :)

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

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

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