Recently I went to my first ever dev conference: Conf & Coffee. I wasn't actually planning on going, but I saw a call for volunteers and realised that I was being silly by thinking that I was too much of a beginner to go to a conference- going to a conference as a beginner is … Continue reading Bi-Weekly Learning Update (40!)
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Bonus Bi-Weekly Learning Update (33!)
I’ve been learning about REST and RESTful routes this week. REST stands for Representational State Transfer, and it’s a set of conventions we follow when routing. Routes aren’t something I’ve ever played around with before, so while initially, I felt a little out of my depth, having a clear set of conventions to follow made … Continue reading Bonus Bi-Weekly Learning Update (33!)
Colour Game Code-Along
The latest part of the Web Development Bootcamp course that I tackled was a really fun code-along project. I've talked before about how valuable I've been finding these code-alongs, and this project was great because it was so comprehensive. It's a pretty simple idea: the player is shown an RGB value, and has to click … Continue reading Colour Game Code-Along
Wikipedia Viewer [fCC Project]
One of the things that really helped me regain my motivation when I came back to web development was finally finishing the Wikipedia Viewer project for freeCodeCamp. It was a project that I really struggled with, so even if it had been removed from the curriculum [I know some projects are due to be removed] I … Continue reading Wikipedia Viewer [fCC Project]