Day 230 and Day 231: JavaScript Race & Uploading Simon Game to GitHub

Okay, today I attended an event hosted by MakerSquare, a coding boot camp here in town.  It was a JavaScript race, with really basic JavaScript problems combined with an easter-egg hunt, so we were given clues at the end of each challenge that would guide us to the next challenge, and so on.

My team won 1st place, and I won a $750 class, but I ceded the prize, since I couldn't attend the class due to the UT Boot Camp being partially at the same time.

So I got a $20 gift card to Torchy's Tacos instead.

It was a good day.

On Monday, I started the process of uploading my CodePen projects to GitHub, so I have to create files linked to each other and to CDN's, to hold every project.

The first project that I uploaded was my Simon Game.  There is an issue with the Simon Game code on Firefox and Safari, and I spent over 6 hours trying to find a way around the issue, but it remains.  Nonetheless, it works on Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Opera, so I added appropriate notes to the README.md file.

Here's a productivity screenshot from yesterday:

Also, I ran my JavaScript through JSLint, and there were some issues, not huge ones, but they needed to be addressed nonetheless.  I'm using validators regularly now, they're so important.

I'm using GitHub daily now, which is pretty great.

Oh, also, I'd been having an issue with my Chrome browser not opening index files in a new tab, it would only open index files if Chrome was closed.  Well, I contacted Chrome support on a message board for that, and a fellow named Johnny suggested a setting change which could be changed to resolve that issue, and it worked.  It wasn't anything I had done, it was just some setting that causes that in some cases.

Tomorrow we've got class again, and I'm super excited!

So now my Simon Game is uploaded on my GitHub, I turned in my class assignment about a week early, and all is well with my family.

Life's good.

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
Framework Basics (Bootstrap and Foundation)                                    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)         In Progress

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


My Web Dev Portfolio: www.adamcamacho.com
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: 7.5

Total Hours Coding: 1,211