Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Day 268 - 284: Boot Camp Survey/Test, Node, Express, and Handlebars

This is an entry for the last 12 days of July in which I had class, plus 6 extra days in which I coded a lot.  I'm not counting the other days in which I didn't code more than an hour or two.

I started the first day by completing a 3 hours test/survey given to us by the boot camp to see where we were at.  I finished with that, then started on a class on React and touched briefly on React Router, Webpack, Babel, and Axios.  Babel converts the JSX into JavaScript.  Axios makes http requests. 

I made a back end project called "Liri" which dealt with accessing songs on an API via node.js/arguments on the command line.

I made a project called Friend Finder, which doesn't use a database, here it is, it's very simple, and it's deployed on Heroku (https://thawing-journey-78394.herokuapp.com/survey):





I made a full stack CRUD app, called "Eat Da Burger," which allows the user view the burgers currently on the menu, to create a burger and add it to the menu, to remove burgers from the menu and add them to the "devoured" area, and finally, to delete devoured burgers from the database altogether.  It's also on Heroku (http://gentle-brook-29511.herokuapp.com/burgers):





I'm learning a ton.  We used handlebars also, which allows us to use templating for our html, it's part of the V in MVC (Model, View, Controller), which I've been learning about all month.  I had class 12 times since the last entry, and each time we have class is at least 5 hours of coding for me, as I get to class early (but usually more like 8 or 10 hours).  For example, my Tuesday/Thursday class begins at 6:30 p.m., but I'm usually at the coffee shop a few feet away from our classroom sometime between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., because I don't want to get stuck in traffic.  So I get to class 4 to 8 hours early on those days.  On Saturdays, class usually starts at 9 a.m., if we have a speaker, and at 10 a.m., if we don't, but we usually do (but I don't count the hour listening to a speaker as coding).  Then, after class, I usually keep studying.  For example, yesterday after class, my friend Michael Desantis and I went to a tea house/coffee shop and kept coding until 9 p.m.  We got a lot done, we were working with Sequelize, which is an ORM we were taught to use this week.

I've learned a LOT in the last few months.  Our project for this coming Saturday is to make the "Eat Da Burger" app, which used vanilla mySQL, again, but this time using Sequelize as the ORM.

Again, I apologize for not updating the blog too often, I'm just quite busy with coding.

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)          Complete
Week 7-10: API & JSON (RESTful API"s, parsing JSON, AJAX)                    Complete
Week 11-14: Server Side (Node.js, MySQL, MongoDB)                             In Progress
Week 15-18: PHP (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 During This Blog Entry: 92
Total Hours Coding: 1,496

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