Day 239, 240, and 241: First Day Working on Node and RPG Project!

All right, I had to choose whether to dive into React or Node first, and although I prefer to go with React first to really solidify my front end education, the UT Boot Camp will be going into Node heavily before we even touch React, and since my priority right now is excelling in the boot camp and helping my fellow students excel, that means I need to get a good grounding in Node first, so I can be prepared to help my classmates out when the time comes.

Okay, so let's get to it!

I organized my Udacity courses on Node, so those are waiting for me now, but I'm starting off with some Treehouse material, since I've used them before and they're pretty solid, sometimes a bit too much hand-holding, but I'm ok with that right now in regards to Node, since this is my first exposure to it.

All right, so the instructor in the video said that writing an application in Node.js is writing an application in javaScript, but outside the browser.

Also, I'm going through the Eloquent JavaScript book whenever I get a chance to on my new kindle, it's pretty neat.  Here's a function that multiplies the argument entered by every number below it:

function fac(n) {
if (n == 0) {
      return 1;
    }
else {
      return fac(n-1) * n;
    }
}


fac(4);

So that yields 24, as in 4 x 3 x 2 x 1.  24.

Okay, I had to start working on a homework assignment, so I set aside my Node work for now.  Here's what I have so far on the homework assignment:

It's a game where the characters fight each other, and we've got to build it in jQuery.  It's coming along.  

In these last few days I attended two 4 hour classes for the boot camp, read a bit of the Eloquent JavaScript book, explored how the stack works in recursive functions like the one earlier in this post, got started (very briefly) on an introduction to Node.js, and started working on the code for the project pictured above, using jQuery, since that's what we're going over this week.

Tomorrow's Saturday, I'll have class for four hours and then I'll continue my work on this project.

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

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