June 24th, 2020 – June 26th, 2020 Yesterday, I embarked on another group project. This time, we decided to make an e-commerce website for a coffee shop called The Java(Script) Joint, made entirely in vanilla JavaScript, CSS, and HTML: The project outline is as follows: This is a coffee shop containing five different drink options … More The Java(Script) Joint – Final Project Documentation
June 22nd, 2020 I didn’t get a chance to update my blog yesterday because I was studying for today’s assessment (see other blog post from today). But my focus for yesterday was functions. While I know how normal functions work, I was tripped up my anonymous functions and expression functions. Anonymous functions are just functions … More Functions
Today, we were asked to complete a lengthy and detailed assessment on our knowledge of JavaScript and coding fundamentals. I can say that this assessment allowed me to see where I stand in terms of my knowledge and showed me where I need to improve. While I did get 85% of the assessment done confidently, … More Assessment (Written)
June 17th, 2020 – June 18th, 2020 On Wednesday, I did some simple exercises with arrays . I wasn’t previously aware that you can make arrays using the Array() function. Something I also found interesting is that an empty array still has the data type of an ‘object’, not undefined as I would have expected. … More Array Properties & Loops
June 17th, 2020 Today in 30 Days of JavaScript, the focus was on booleans, operators, and date objects. Truthy values are anything that yields “true” in JavaScript. This includes all numbers except 0, all strings, and the boolean value “true”. Falsy values are anything that yields “false” in JavaScript. This includes 0, 0n, null, undefined, … More Truthy, falsy, and ternary operators
June 16th, 2020 Yesterday, I started a new challenge called 30DaysOfJavaScript and I could not recommend this more for beginners. It really breaks down the concepts, step by step, and it made me realize that there is so much I didn’t know about fundamental concepts I thought I was already a pro at. One example … More Seeing a new side to data types
June 15th, 2020 Today, instead of working on p5.js, I decided to work independently on JavaScript fundamentals. A practice problem I encountered was: “Write a function that checks to see if a number is in a list of numbers. If it is, return ‘true’. If it is not, then return ‘false’.” This problem combined my … More JS fundamentals in tandem
June 11th, 2020 – June 13th, 2020 The past two days have been information overload. We started learning p5.js as a way to refresh and solidify concepts in JavaScript. p5.js is a JavaScript library that allows us to create shapes–it gives you the opportunity to show your creative side! Which I love, since a lot … More p5.js
June 9th, 2020 – June 10th, 2020 These are the words that George Hofstetter said in his TEDx Talk called “How technology redefined can be a social justice super power“. In today’s world where police brutality is destroying our communities and taking lives, I am constantly thinking: “Is there a place in social justice for … More “Could an app have saved Trayvon Martin?”
June 5th, 2020 – June 6th, 2020 Yesterday, I was swamped with projects! Update on my skincare project–it’s looking and behaving a whole lot better!: I absolutely love how it’s turning out. The generate button has the behavior to store the user’s input and based on that input, generates the preselected skincare routine: I hard-coded … More Days 9: Projects Upon Projects
