Day 285 - 315 (All of August): Express Review and Working with Sequelize, Building a Scraper, Reviewing MongoDB, and Diving into React

August has been extremely busy for me.  It's Sept 3, and I've put in 215 hours of coding this past month.  Here's my Rescue time screenshots for the last 5 weeks:

Week 1 of August:

Week 2 of August:

Week 3 of August:

Week 4 of August:

Final week of August/first few days of Sept:

The number in the upper left of the screenshots is the amount of time I was actually on my computer that week, which doesn't mean anything, the actual productive time is right at the bottom of the circle.  This month (plus the first couple of days of Sept.) I racked up 215 HOURS of web development.  The vast majority of that time was time spent on the ATOM text editor, coding.

I'm not going to count the extra hours I spent coding in July, because I had my Rescue Time time tracking app turned off at that point, and I've not gotten into the habit of using but It had to be an extra 40 or so, at least.

I dove really deep into the back end this month, and I'm at the point now where I just want to dive deeper into web development, both front and back end.  I enjoy creating these apps.  Here's my group's app, Spare Space:

Here's a Redesign of it that I'll keep working on if I redo that app in MERN, which I may decide to do as my final project for my boot camp:

And here's a MERN stack project I created that pulled data from the New York Times API:

I know the UI is super simple on that one, but it's my first crack at a React project, I'm going to dive much deeper into it, that's actually my plan for the next few days.

As an aside, my group won "Best in Show" for Spare Space, the project we built for the boot camp.  :)

So that's my update for August, it's a high-level update, I'm not getting into the details so that I can use that time instead to dive into React and keep leveling up my skills on the entire MERN stack.

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)                              Complete

Week 15-18: PHP (CodeIgniter, Laravel)                                                In Progress

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: 215

Total Hours Coding: 1,711