10 day Sprint Goals:
- Finish Basic Javascript module with freeCodeCamp's JS Algorithms and Data Structures Cert
- Finish non-project modules of Responsive Web Design Cert
- Start projet modules of RWD cert
- Complete js module in my bootcamp
- Update favicon for portfolio site
- Write weekly recap on dev.to
- Make an open source contribution
Yesterday recap:
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I did a whole bunch of set up for #100daysofcode. Including:
- dev.to posts
- checking out the site
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I also worked on the freeCodeCamp Javascript Cert and RWD cert Minor changes to my portfolio site
Today's plans:
I'm continuing with freeCodeCamp's JS cert. I figured out how to make a golf nickname calculator with par and stroke inputs!
Struggles:
Trying not to overwhelm myself. I need to pace myself!!
- I wrote out my goals in my #100daysofcode intro dev.to post
Links:
- 100 Days of Code & Scrum Series' Articles by Rammina on dev.to - Helped me formulate a structure for my daily logs and weekly goals
Yesterday recap:
- A whole bunch of set up for #100daysofcode. Including:
- dev.to post
- forking thAlgorithms and Data Structuresis repo
- I also worked on the freeCodeCamp JS Algo and D.S Cert
- Commented on Rammina's #100daysofcode post.
Today's plans:
- Work on the JS Cert with fCC
- Start RWD project for fCC
- Check out the #100daysofcode tag on dev.to
- Play around with my open source issue
Struggles:
JS is kicking my behind. The switch operator lesson in the cert made no sense. I had to check the hint and see others struggling and saying the same thing. So I felt a lil better. But I am shaken. 2 days in a row. I'm going to make a post about it.
Links:
- Technical Documentation Page for fCC RWD Cert - got the skeleton done. Gonna laid down the CSS this week. Looking forward to using
overscroll-behavior.
Yesterday recap:
- Started on fCC RWD project
- Tinkered with open source project in browser
- Commented on fellow #100daysofcode post.
- Questioned whether or not I wanted to dive into JS like this.
Today's plans:
- Work on the JS Cert with fCC
- be ready for week 2 of bootcamp
- Complete one RWD project for fCC
- Check out the #100daysofcode tag on dev.to -Play around with my open source issue
Struggles:
Time management is now a concern. I worked on the fCC JS course all day. I'm not feeling too well so I wasn't on top of my time management game.
Thoughts:
This is a roller coaster. I'm struggling with objects again lol I'm gonna give less time to the fCC course tomorrow and dive into my open source issue.exercism
Links:
- Exercism - Checked out this site for more js practice!
Yesterday recap:
- Struggled with fCC JS task
- made it to week 2 tho!
Today's plans:
- Comment on my open source issue
- Work on the JS Cert with fCC (but not all day!)
- Make progress on one RWD project for fCC
- Check out the #100daysofcode tag on dev.to
Struggles: My open source issue is down on gitlab and I'm not sure if I should say something? I think I'll check again tomorrow and if it's still not working I'll reach out. I'll work on a RWD project for now.
Thoughts: I took it easy today. After yesterday I could use a break from going so hard in the code. I at least figured out what the issue was in the lesson I struggled with all day, and had help from the community. That felt good.
Links:
I turned GitHub into my own Billboard by Thomas Harris on dev.to - I read this post this morning and was blown away by the ability people have! This was so inspiring!
Yesterday recap:
- Completed fCC task that gave me trouble
- Tried to tinker on open source issue, but it was experiencing a bug
Today's plans:
- Comment on my open source issue
- Change og info portfolio site to show different fav icon/sm photo
- Figure out how to get commits into my contribution graph
- Draft up a couple of DEV.to articles
- my favorite keyboard shortcuts
- my hacktoberfest experience
Struggles: Understanding when to say "Hey something's wrong" on my open source issue. I didn't want to add fuel to the fire, but I also don't want to withhold info.
Thoughts: I'm realizing that my experience contributing to open source projects was really valuable. I'm gonna talk that up.
Links:
My portfolio site - Updated the og:image property on my site so the social link isn't a huge 👩🏾💻 emoji lol
Yesterday recap:
- Commented on my open source issue
- Updated my portfolio
Today's plans:
- Test on my open source issue
- Figure out how to get commits into my contribution graph
- Work on JS cert
Struggles:
Now I'm stuggling to manage timing a "hey I need some help," response haha. I'm trying to make a footer stick to the bottom of a page. My solution works when the height is signifigantly taller than the width. However, when the width is wider than the height (ex. mobile screens in landscape mode) the footer blocks content on the screen. I think, I'm almost positive there's a way to write a media query that'll style accordingly, but that's over my head at the moment. It's all part of the learning experience tho.
Thoughts:
I've made it to loops in my JS cert and I'm playing around with push / unshift. I can make an array list even and odd numbers backwards using a simple loop, with either method, and it makes me happy.
Yesterday recap:
- Test on my open source issue
- Figure out how to get commits into my contribution graph
- Work on JS cert
Today's plans:
- Talk to someone in my network about their role and job applying experience.
Struggles: I'm feeling a little bad that I'm not going to be able to do as much on the weekends but I'm also ok about that too. I need to manage how much time I do this and have a life.
Thoughts:
I was really happy to have had talked with a dev in my network. I'm really inspired to start the job hunt and I feel less presure to "know everything".
Yesterday recap:
- Reached out to dev in my network
- Work on JS cert
Today's plans:
Make one change and relax
Struggles: Not really struggling right now. I'm happy to have made my lil change and keep today about life outside of the computer
Thoughts: Enjoy the weekend! Hope the fork detaches soon!
Links:
My portfolio site - Updated the meta: description property on my site so the content matches the message about me I want to communicate.
Yesterday recap:
Updated description on portfolio
Today's plans:
Make one change and relax
Struggles:
Thoughts:
Links:
- Technical Documentation Page for fCC RWD Cert - Added
ids per test requirements. It was uncomfortable adding special characters in the names of theids. I honestly thought you couldn't so I learned something there!
Yesterday recap:
Edited fCC project
Today's plans: Make one change and relax
Struggles:
Again it felt super weird to add special charaters to hrefs.
Thoughts:
Gonna get back into JS now that I've made some progress in my fCC project.
Links:
Yesterday recap:
Edited fCC project
Today's plans:
- Work on JS Cert
- Update resume
Struggles:
I'm struggling to understand how to use the length of an array in a recursive function. The profile lookup task has me stumped.
Thoughts:
My pomodoro clock of choice now doesn't work. I'm struggling to find an app that'll work in the background and allow me to change up the focus/break state. I wanna do it with JS but also make my own app if I have to.
Yesterday recap:
Work on JS Cert Update resume
Today's plans:
Update my github readme
Struggles:
Not much today. I think I need a lil bit of a challenge to make up for the slack of the past week-ish.
Thoughts:
I like doing the fCC JS activities, but I don't like that there's no interface or a way to save my code. I think I'm gonna try and build something around one of the tasks. Especially on that uses JSON data. I'm gonna take a look at frontend mentor to see if I can get some design ideas/inspo.
Links:
Yesterday recap:
Updated github profile readme
Today's plans:
Work on RWD Cert projects
Struggles:
I don't want to lose steam on my RWD project, but I also don't want to get too into the weeds with styling. Especially when it's not required.
Thoughts:
I finished a RWD project!!! WHOO!! 1 down, 4 more to go. It's not my best design work (no design) and I need to clean up the code, but it's passing. I can breathe.
Links:
Yesterday recap:
Work on RWD Cert projects
Today's plans:
- One change and relax
- JS Cert (maybe?)
Struggles:
Thoughts:
I'm going ahead and starting the tribute page. I can always go back and add the styling to these projects.
Links:
Yesterday recap:
Work on RWD Cert projects
Today's plans:
Work on RWD Cert projects
Struggles:
Keeping motivation, but I'm showing up at least.
Links:
Yesterday recap:
- Work on RWD Cert projects
Today's plans:
- JS cert
- Code Assessment for job application
- Prep job materials
Struggles:
Not being able to figure out the code assesment was a lil bit of a blow to my confidence.
Thoughts:
I'm still glad for the expereince. It was the best code assessment I've encountered. I can actually understand how data structures fit in the real world. I'm a lil more interested in learning how to extract info from JSON. The JS cert was a step in the right direction for that.
Yesterday recap:
- Code Assessment for job application
- Prep job materials
Today's plans:
RWD project - tribute page
Struggles:
Darn it. I missed pushing to github yesterday. And I did a ton of coding yesterday in fCC!!
Thoughts:
Next time I notice I didn't commit for the day, I'm just gonna stop and do something. Lesson learned.
Links:
- Tribute Page for fCC RWD Cert - building out the skeleton one test at a time.
Yesterday recap:
RWD project - tribute page
Today's plans:
RWD project - tribute page JS cert
Struggles:
Thoughts:
Just plugging along with JS and the tribute page. I don't like building without a design so this is a challenge for me. I"m going to mimic the fCC design and just leave it at that. I'm missing the frontend mentor projects now. On the brightside. Ithink with what I've learned in th JS course I can build out some of the logic to some basic game or calculator.
Links:
- Tribute Page for fCC RWD Cert - building out the skeleton one test at a time.
Yesterday recap:
RWD project - tribute page
Today's plans:
RWD project - product landing page
Struggles: I'm pausing on the tribute page because I'm struggling on ideas of who to pay tribute to!! Also, I'd need to figure out a way to get the src right.
Thoughts:
I'm not going for an hour of coding. I'm just coding a lil bit and keeping it pushing. I really need to start building out a JS project to solidify what I'm learning.
Links:
- Product Landing Page for fCC RWD Cert - building out the skeleton one test at a time.
Yesterday recap:
RWD project - tribute page
Today's plans:
Apply to jobs JS cert RWD prject Draft #100daysofcode update
Struggles: I started applying for jobs heavy on the 1st and I can feel my time management skills being tested. I'm setting my expectations for coding to be something like any lil bit I can do or learn, and I'll be happy.
Thoughts:
I need to do an update and rehash out what I'd like to get out of #100daysofcode. I think I want to define some projects to build out but we'll see haha
Yesterday recap:
- JS Cert
- Applying to jobs
Today's plans:
- JS cert
- Draft #100daysofcode update
Thoughts:
I'm on to regex now and I think I'm getting the hang of it, but the random charater flags is going to be tricky. I wonder if there's like a flashcard / game to help getting use to the syntax in a fun way.
Yesterday recap:
- JS Cert
Today's plans:
- JS cert
- Draft and publish #100daysofcode update
Struggles:
I'm behind on my bootcamp. And I'm also worried at all the JS knowledge is disappering right before my eyes.
Thoughts:
I'm a lil behind on my JS bootcamp. Just about a week and I haven't attempted any of the projects, but I'm thinking I'll work on it tomorrow. Today I haven't been in the best mood, I think writing a retrospective of my 25 days will be a nice break.
Links:
- Proper Way to Make HTML Nested List - Strange but I didn't realize or maybe I forgot that in order to nest list, the ul/ol must be inside the li tag? Reminder that it's always good to review the basics!
Yesterday recap:
- JS Cert
- Draft and publish #100daysofcode update
Today's plans:
- JS cert
Struggles:
Thoughts:
Not feeling the best today. I finished the regrex section of the JS cert and was thinking to start a project. But, I'm going to relax a bit and see how that goes for me.
Links:
- Day 25 Check-in post - Here's the finished post of my first 25 days!
Yesterday recap:
- JS Cert
Today's plans:
- RWD project
Links:
- Product Landing Page for fCC RWD Cert - I think I know what the content of the page will be.
Yesterday recap:
- RWD project
Today's plans:
- Applying to jobs
- JS cert
Struggles:
I've just been applying to jobs nonstop. I haven't coding as much as I wanted. Or really done anything other than job stuff.
Thoughts:
I thought of the idea of creating an email finder. I think a simple project would be to create a form that takes the first and last and company domain name. Then using regex create 3-5 possible emails from the input. Something like:
{first}.{last}@company{f}{last}@company{first}{last}@company
Then the next step would be to figure out how to get the emails verified and return the one that's the highest most likely match.
Links:
Yesterday recap:
- Applying to jobs
- JS cert
Today's plans:
- Applying to jobs
- JS cert
Struggles:
Balancing health, rest, and completing this daily task
Thoughts:
I feel awful today. I haven't slept much at all today and had to cancel everything and keep a watch on me. It's evening and I'm feeling better than I was 12 hours ago, so I may just do one JS cert task and call it a day.
Links:
Yesterday recap:
- Applying to jobs
- JS cert
Today's plans:
- Email Generator
- JS cert
Struggles:
Balancing health, rest, and completing this daily task
Thoughts:
I'm feeling much better today thankfully. Still not sure if I'm out of the weeds just yet, but I'm hopeful.
I started my email generator project today. Thinking more about it I'm kinda like, "how am I going to do this?"
I'm writing each function out separtely, but I'm not sure how I'm going to get them to chain together.
Links:
- Email Generator - I hate not having some design for it, but I'm gonna worry about making it work before anything else.
Yesterday recap:
- Email Generator
- JS cert
Today's plans:
- Email Generator
Struggles:
Balancing health, rest, and completing this daily task
Thoughts:
I'm trying to write out a function that'll log each of the inputs. I think I know how I want to do that using var.value then either creating an array or just apply regex? I'm not sure, but I'll figure it out.
Links:
- Email Generator
- How to Plan and Build Programming Projects - I read this today and thought it was super helpful for breaking down how to tackle personal projects that you may not have a road map for figuring out.
Yesterday recap:
- Email Generator
Today's plans:
- Email Generator
Struggles:
Balancing health, rest, and completing this daily task
Thoughts:
Well I'm amazed that I got the function to log the input and push to an array. I'm now wanting to create key value pairs, somehow. Naming the index, so instead of:
0: firstNameValue
it would look something like:
firstNameInput: firstNameValue
I'm also wanting a more elegant solution for going through the inputs, like maybe using a do while or for each loop? Idk. But I think there's something I could other than list each input out.
Links:
- Email Generator
- Python Tutor - I couldn't use it how I wanted today, but this site is super helpful for visualizing how data flows in your code.
Yesterday recap:
- Email Generator
Today's plans:
- Email Generator
Struggles:
Balancing health, rest, and completing this daily task
Thoughts:
Ok So! I've gotten a function to show first@domain but! It only works with the log. Whenever I comment out the log it doesn't show on the page :(
I think it has something to do with the preventDefault that I have on the submit click event, not allowing for the output message to show.
Links:
- Email Generator - Can't wait to add some CSS
Yesterday recap:
- Email Generator
Today's plans:
- JS Cert
Struggles:
Balancing health, rest, and completing this daily task
Thoughts:
Doing on change and relaxing. Enjoying Valentine's Day.
Links:
- Email Generator - Can't wait to add some CSS
Yesterday recap:
- JS Cert
Today's plans:
- JS Cert
Struggles:
Trying to have a life and code and apply for jobs.
Thoughts:
I've fallen off with my JS cert tasks. I'm glad to be working on it again, becuse it's giving me some ideas for the email generator.
Yesterday recap:
- JS Cert
Today's plans:
- Email Generator
Struggles:
Trying to have a life and code and apply for jobs.
I'm getting a lil stuck on how to get the mulitple outputs to show up using .innerText? Maybe I'll create a p tags for each output? That sounds like something I could be able to do with JS.
Thoughts:
Figured out another function!! Using temperate literals is the way to go haha
Links:
Yesterday recap:
- Email Generator
Today's plans:
- Open Source Contribution (yay!)
Struggles:
I can't figure out how to make what was suggested to work. I'm trying to make a footer stick to the bottom and these are the changes I want to make:
html,
body {
height: 100%;
}
/*container div*/
.__next{
height: 100%;
min-height: 100%;
position: relative;
}
/*footer*/
.makeStyles-root-121{
min-height: 300px;
/*(min-height because it's dynamic not hard height defined) */
position: absolute;
/* toggling the posistion sometimes makes things better sometimes it does make a difference */
bottom: 0;
}It looks great until devices are in landscape mode with more content :(
Thoughts:
I'm glad to have gotten back in touch with the maintainers of my project. That's been on my head for a while.
Yesterday recap:
- Open Source Contribution
Today's plans:
- JS Cert
Struggles:
Just trying to balance life and code.
Thoughts:
Reminding myself that I don't have to do the most. Just what I can.
Yesterday recap:
- JS Cert
Today's plans:
- JS Cert
Struggles:
Just trying to balance life and code.
Thoughts:
The light is flickering. It's hard to stay motivated. I think I'll read some dev.to posts of others doing the 100days challenge. Help me recontextualize my experience.
Yesterday recap:
- JS Cert
Today's plans:
- JS Cert
Struggles:
Just trying to balance life and code.
Thoughts:
Same as yesterday basically. I"m stuck on a task with splice() and don't really feel like fooling with it right now.
Yesterday recap:
- JS Cert
Today's plans:
- JS Cert
Struggles:
Just trying to balance life and code.
Thoughts:
I needed this semi-break. I'll be back fresh tomorrow working on my open source contribution and my email generator!
Yesterday recap:
- JS Cert
Today's plans:
- Tackle Take Home Project
- Open Source Project (was down again)
Struggles:
Trying to come to terms that I'm struggling with this full-stack take home challenge. I couldn't understand what to google to even get me on the a track.
Thoughts:
I'm trying not to be discouraged and take it as a learning experience, but it's hard to disapoint others.
Yesterday recap:
- Tackle Take Home Project
- Open Source Project (was down again)
Today's plans:
- Tackle Take Home Project
Struggles:
Avoiding this take home project because it's overwheleming to me. I don't think I can do it and I'm struggling with even beginning when I know I'm going to fail.
Thoughts:
I need to try or either go to sleep.
Yesterday recap:
- Tackle Take Home Project
Today's plans:
- Tackle Take Home Project
Struggles:
Stil avoidant but I got some very encouraging words from my Virtual Coffee community.
Thoughts:
I need to try.
Yesterday recap:
- Tackle Take Home Project
Today's plans:
- Coderbyte assessment
Struggles:
Still struggling with the fear of not being "good enough"
Thoughts:
I had an assessment that wanted a function that had a rating system between 0 - 5 with .5 increments. For every 1 log full and for the half log "half" and if there were less than 5 items then log "empty." I only had an hour to figure it out. They didn't want an array which confused me, but I almost got it and was tinkering when time ran out. I was surprised that I would get as far as I did. But I didn't like not being able to leave and save my work to check out the other question. I never got to see it :(
Yesterday recap:
- Coderbyte assessment
Today's plans:
- Github profile README
Struggles:
Balancing coding time and having a life
Thoughts:
I'm just doing what I can. Helping my partner move and I'm not stressing about doing the most today.
Links:
Yesterday recap:
- Github profile README
Today's plans:
- JS email generator
Struggles:
Balancing coding time and having a life
Thoughts:
Like yesterday, just doing what I can. I can't wait to get the email generator going.
Links:
Yesterday recap:
- JS email generator
Today's plans:
- Coding assessment
Struggles:
Balancing coding time and having a life
Thoughts:
I'm mad I missed posting to my log because I had a code assessment with toggl. I was using my js file for my email generator to check my answers and the code haha
Links:
Yesterday recap:
- Coding assessment
Today's plans:
- JS Cert
Struggles:
Balancing coding time and having a life
Thoughts:
I can't believe I'm already almost halfway with the #100day challenge! I'll put a post out soon on my dev.to as a reflection/look ahead.
Yesterday recap:
- JS Cert
Today's plans:
- Email generator
Struggles:
Balancing coding time and having a life
Thoughts:
Amazed that it's been 50 days. I need complete a project or two soon to feel accomplished. My email generator is coming along. I need to figure out why the functions themselves are logging and not the function with given parameters.
Links:
Yesterday recap:
- Email generator
Today's plans:
- JS
Struggles:
Balancing coding time and having a life
Thoughts:
Still need to reflect. It's hard for me to do so with a daily challenge. I need to incorporate a scheduled day for thinking and not just doing.
Yesterday recap:
- JS Cert
Today's plans:
- JS Cert
Struggles:
Balancing coding time and having a life
Thoughts: No thoughts — just doing!
Yesterday recap:
- JS Cert
Today's plans:
- Email Generator
Struggles:
I can't figure out how to get slice to extract all but the first character of a string.
Thoughts: I need to clean up the logic soon but so far it's ok. I kind of have a plan for how I want to combine all of the pieces in a huge function that'll take 3 parameters and then run through all of the combos.
Links:
Yesterday recap:
- Email Generator
Today's plans:
- Email Generator
Struggles:
The logic is killing me.
Thoughts: I need to clean up the logic soon but so far it's ok. I kind of have a plan for how I want to combine all of the pieces in a huge function that'll take 3 parameters and then run through all of the combos.
Links:
Yesterday recap:
- JS Cert
Today's plans:
- Open Source Contribution
Struggles:
I can't figure out how to create a PR for this and Gitpod is a headache. I pushed some commits and now need to delete them somehow because my acutal email is being exposed.
// in web/pages/_documents.tsx
<body>
<Main />
<NextScript />
<style jsx global>{`
/* Adds global styles to html, body and main id*/
html,
body {
height: 100%;
}
#__next {
height: 100%;
min-height: 100%;
position: relative;
}
`}</style>
</body>
// in /web/componenets/Footer/Footer.tsx
const useStyles = makeStyles((theme) => ({
root: {
display: "flex",
flexDirection: "column",
width: "100%",
minHeight: "300px",
// (min-height because it's dynamic not hard height defined)
position: "absolute",
// toggling the posistion sometimes makes things better, sometimes it does not make a difference
bottom: "0",
},Thoughts:
I need to pair program more often. I got this far with someone in my Virtual Coffee Community and I've learned so much about .tsx and .jsx in those couple of hours.
Links:
- Gitpod exposes emails - be aware!! You will need to run
git config --global user.email "ID+username@users.noreply.github.com"for every project. I'm in such a bind right now. - Styling Global Components in Next JS
- Virtual Coffee
Yesterday recap:
- Open Sourece Contribution
Today's plans:
- Take home tests
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts: I just got 3 take home tests today. It's def a good problem to have, not only so I get to exercise my skills, I also get to be in the place and work through the mental blocks I have with these things. I'm not losing whatever happens. That's what I'm trying to tell myself.
Yesterday recap:
- Take home tests
Today's plans:
- Take home tests
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts: I roughly completed the take home for the company I'm most excited for. I'm gonna polish it up a bit tomorrow and send it out. It's due Thursday. I'm planning to give half a day to another and the weekend to the final test.
Links:
Yesterday recap:
- Take home tests
Today's plans:
- Take home tests
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts: I didn't really do much today, just thought about my take homes.
Links:
Yesterday recap:
- Take home tests
Today's plans:
- Take home tests
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts: I finished the take home and feel pretty good about it. I recreated the screenshot almost to the t. I even reached out an asked some questions.
Links:
Yesterday recap:
- Take home tests
Today's plans:
- Take home tests
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts: I had to reassess the take home. I was supposed to use js to dynamically build the site. I didn't think I could do it but I didn't run into too many difficulities. I learned a good bit too like I knew off createElement but never got to build something with it, using my own hands. I didn't get to all of the design elements, but just being able to go outside of my comfort zone and surprise myself, was a very valuable experience.
Links:
Yesterday recap:
- Take home tests
Today's plans:
- Take home tests
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts:
Had the round two interview going over the take home assignment. I think it went well? I was excited to be asked questions about the js aspect and while I can't say I felt confident, I at least could pick up on the questions after my memory had been jogged a bit. I need to speak more about js and get into that habit.
Links:
- Take home - Thank you again Rob and Lise!!
Yesterday recap:
- Take home tests
Today's plans:
- Take home tests
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts:
I peeked at the Jekyll take home and yikes lol I'm in over my head. I wish I had the bandwidth to start earlier.
On the flip side, thanks to my other take home, I was able to incorporate some createElement() in my javascript for the email generator.
Links:
- COIL Take home - Thank you again Alessandra and Victoria and Meg!
Yesterday recap:
- Take home tests
Today's plans:
- Take home tests
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts:
I got the meat of the project done and I think I feel ok about what I accomplished. I think if I had more time I would have matched the design a bit closer.
Links:
- COIL Take home - Thank you again Alessandra and Victoria and Meg!
Yesterday recap:
- Take home tests
Today's plans:
- Write up a README for job interview
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts:
I was so excited about this opporunity that I create a README with all of my questions for the info session.
Links:
- Netlify Team Questions - Thank you again Tara and Prince!
Yesterday recap:
- Write up README
Today's plans:
- Take home tests
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts:
I got another take home test that's more backend focused. It would have overwhelmed me but I think I have a direction to go into now at least.
Links: These came up during the course of my day interviewing and talking with fellow devs. A couple came up twice!
- The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track by Will Larson Recurse Center
Yesterday recap:
- Write up README
Today's plans:
- Email Generator
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts:
Links:
Yesterday recap:
- Email generator
Today's plans:
- React practice
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts:
I couldn't decide whether or not to start a new react project for a presentation and started a new repo with create-react-app
Links:
Yesterday recap:
- React practice
Today's plans:
- ??
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts:
Legit missed today I guess
Yesterday recap:
- Write up README
Today's plans:
- Email Generator
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts:
I'm just doing a little by little.
Links:
Yesterday recap:
- Email Generator
Today's plans:
- Email Generator
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts:
Reiterating on functions one by one.
Links:
Yesterday recap:
- Email Generator
Today's plans:
- Email Generator
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts:
Updating my email generator for a presentation.
Links:
Yesterday recap:
- Email Generator
Today's plans:
- Take home test
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts:
Did a coding take home that had unclear instructions. I could parse what it was asking but only have 30 mins to execute. I'm not hopeful for the role, but it was interesting practice. I think I'm getting a lil over coding and these take homes tbh.
Yesterday recap:
- Take home test
Today's plans:
- Updating log
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts:
I haven't updated this in a week. It's hard to keep up now for whatever reason. I'm already over 70 days and I feel like I have very little to show for. Idk. Feeling a bit demoralized by everything.
Yesterday recap:
- Take home test
Today's plans:
- Updating log
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts:
Yesterday recap:
- Updated log
Today's plans:
- Take home
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts:
I went to my communities Thursday get together and idk I felt remotivated to make some changes to my porfolio and code a bit. I was inspired by my after VC chat to complete more projects. Especially now that I'm in the final stretches of this challenge. I need something to show and to keep from stagnating.
I think I'm going add some js to my portfolio site and make it so that my card dynamically upate, instead of hard coding them in.
Might even do that for my skills list as well.
Yesterday recap:
- Updated log
Today's plans:
- Take home
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts:
I didn't do anything on the weekend and I think I needed it. I needed the break from the pressure of doing something for the contribution graph.
Yesterday recap:
- Take home
Today's plans:
- Take home
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts:
I got to work on this take home. I'm finally making headway on this assignment. It's tough because it's for a role that I've very interested in yet just didn't have the mental capacity for it.
Yesterday recap:
- Take home
Today's plans:
- Take home
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts:
I figured out the logic for part one of my take home. I had the general idea for the take home but didn't really put it into code until today and yesterday.
Yesterday recap:
- Take home
Today's plans:
- Take home
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts:
I mob programmed (kinda?) with a few people and it was so intimidating but I felt like I was in good hand and wasn't ever gonna get stuck with. I had to figure out how to get a .txt file read by js without using node. Without their help I would have never figured out what to do on my own. I want to learn more about promises and resolving async functions as they relate to the dom.
Yesterday recap:
- Take home
Today's plans:
- Take home
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts:
I paired with someone in my community and I learned so much. I can't begin to explain the amount of growth and omg wow youu can do it moments I've had in an hour and a half!!
For example I learned the cmd + D and F2short cuts. Find patterens to not only write code but also to edit!
Yesterday recap:
- Take home
Today's plans:
- Take home
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts:
I forgot to create a gh-page for the take home assignment I've been working on. So I did that and updated the Readme!
Yesterday recap:
- Tak home assignment
Today's plans:
- Update log
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts:
Just coming in to update the logs. I can't believe I'm almost on day 80!
Yesterday recap:
- Update log
Today's plans:
- Update log
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts:
I worked on learning Cypress using their docs
Links:
Yesterday recap:
- Update log
Today's plans:
- Update log
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts:
I missed publishing the log yestrday but today I'm watching another dev debug!
Yesterday recap:
- Update log
Today's plans:
- fCC JS bootcamp
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts:
I worked on the fCC JS bootcamp by stating a project finally! I figured that I've been learning a ton recently and that I probably knew more than I gave myself credit for. It turns out, I can figure things out and solve them with a bit of help from google!
Link:
- My Solution to fCC Palindrome Checker - Palindrome repo
Yesterday recap:
- fCC JS bootcamp
Today's plans:
- fCC JS bootcamp
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts:
I completed a project finally!
Link:
- My Solution to fCC Palindrome Checker - Palindrome repo
Yesterday recap:
- fCC JS bootcamp
Today's plans:
- fCC Web Dev bootcamp
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts:
I worked on another stalled in progress project. It hard letting go of the design and just focusing on the coding. I feel a way because the design is lacking, but I really just want to code it up well then maybe come back and make it look like something later. I just want that cert!!
Link:
- My Solution to fCC Product Page - Product Page codepen
Yesterday recap:
- fCC Web Dev bootcamp
Today's plans:
- fCC Web Dev bootcamp
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts:
Making a lil progress on this project. Maybe tomorrow I"ll sit down and finish it.
Link:
- My Solution to fCC Product Page - Product Page codepen
Yesterday recap:
- fCC Web Dev bootcamp
Today's plans:
- Coding content
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts:
Today I worked on writing content about my experience job searching as an entry-level dev! No links yet but hopefully they coming.
Yesterday recap:
- Coding content
Today's plans:
- Coding content
- Teaming up on a project
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts:
I wrote a little more. I'm tackling an interesting problem that another dev friend came across and I want to see if I can solve it my way haha
I'm tackling the JS for creating something like a progress indicator where classes are added to the previous milestones and removed as needed.
Link:
Yesterday recap:
- Coding content
Today's plans:
- Teaming up on a project
Struggles:
Trying to keep my confidence and momentum with growing my skills
Thoughts: I'm still working on the problem, but I feel close?? Although I think embedding a do..while inside a forEach isn't the best practice lol
Link: