Forem: Tony Greeley

100 Days of Code - Day 6

Tony Greeley — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 02:30:07 +0000

Started section 4 of Modern HTML & CSS From the Beginning which is a simple project of creating a website for a hotel using just HTML and the basic CSS covered in section 3. I have decided while doing the projects in this course I want to practice committing often and writing good commit messages. The first part of the section was setting up the file structure and creating the navbar on the index.html page. With my wanting to practice improving my commits, this one part took over an hour so I think starting tomorrow I think I'm going to change my approach to the rest of this section. Since I already have web development knowledge from the bootcamp I took, I'm going to challenge myself to finish the rest of this project on my own as opposed to following along in the video and see how close I get to the courses end result. Wish me luck!

100 Days of Code - Day 5

Tony Greeley — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 01:23:12 +0000

Finished up section 3 of Modern HTML & CSS From the Beginning, Basic CSS and I have to say I am quite proud of myself. After covering the display property and positioning was given a challenge in which was given a html file that contained a form and an image of what it should look like and had to style the page to look like the image, and I got pretty probably 98% close to the exact image, was only pixels off with some padding and some margin settings. CSS has always been a struggle for me so it is pretty confidence boosting to have been able to have done it without much frustration. Looks like section 4 of the course brings the first "project", so gives me hope I might do ok at it.

100 Days of Code - Day 4

Tony Greeley — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 01:42:19 +0000

More CSS, yay! Completed the next couple of lessons of section 3, CSS Basics of Modern HTML & CSS From the Beginning and while I do not dislike CSS any less, I can say I have a much better understanding of the box model and floats than I had gained during my bootcamp cohort. I remember not really grasping the concept at all back then and simply using trial and error until I got the look I wanted hopefully causing less of headache. Finished up by a review of pseudo classes and used them to style an anchor tag and button tag to look exactly the same.

100 Days of Code - Day 3

Tony Greeley — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 01:54:00 +0000

Day 3 of Modern HTML & CSS From the Beginning begins a review of my mortal enemy of code, CSS. As much as I dislike CSS, this review is very much welcome as it will only help me grow as web developer, if you never practice a skill because you don't like it, how are you ever going to get good at it?

The first half of the review covered the very basics, the 3 ways to implement CSS, selectors, fonts, color types, backgrounds and borders. Fortunately these are things I don't struggle much with. Tomorrow brings the parts that frustrate me the most: box model, float, alignment all the stuff in which you make one small change and everything gets moved and messed up. Well, fortunately, that's tomorrow, not today.

100 Days of Code - Day 2

Tony Greeley — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 17:11:42 +0000

Day 2 is in the books! Completed the second section of Modern HTML & CSS From the Beginning on Udemy which was a nice refresher on HTML which reviewed the meta tag, the new semantic tags, inline vs block elements, the form tag and different input fields etc... While it was all mostly review getting a high level overview of the meta tag and the information that can put in it and seeing how it effects SEO was new and nice to learn.

New Year New Start

Tony Greeley — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 16:46:31 +0000

Day 1: January 1, 2022

Well, they say third time is a charm right?

Admittedly, this is my third attempt at the 100 Days of Code challenge, and I'm going to do my best at making sure I complete it this time around. It was in March of 2019 that I graduated from Northwestern's full-stack web development bootcamp, where I fell in love with coding which surprisingly seemed to have been a natural talent. However, the anxiety and fear in making a career path change got the best of me so I stayed in IT support where I where I was comfortable. Just about a year ago, I started at Kin + Carta, a consulting firm for digital transformation as an IT support coordinator.

Recetnly, during a Slack conversation with the head of our web and mobile practice, Ricky Kelller, I was inspired yet again to start working to transitioning my career path from IT Support to web development. Admittedly I'm out of practice with my coding so Ricky gave me some Udemy courses to work through and help me get back on the path of a career in web development, which I'm going to use to help kick off my third attempt at the 100 days of code challenge and am starting by going back all the way to the basics taking Modern HTML & CSS From the Beginning on Udemy.

Today started off by getting through the first section of the course which gave a nice refresher on the web works, the roles of HTML & CSS in web development, and a quick intro into using VS Code. I wrapped up my time setting up a repo on GitHub, cloning it down to machine, get some starter files for the second part of the course added, and a brief update of its README with the details of the course.

A very simple day 1 to get my feet wet, there's 99 more to go, and I got this.

100 Days of Code ~ Day 8

Tony Greeley — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 23:05:08 +0000

Completed activity 9 of JavaScript30 which covered various console methods that can be used, most of which I'd never even heard of, which was cool. I particularly liked console.group and console.time interesting and may to try to using them in my development stages.

Finished off by completing the current section I was working on for the Udemy course I'm taking about TDD With React in which I finished up testing on the first connected component with out any Redux middleware and the next section covers testing with Redux Thunk which I'll start tomorrow.

100 Days of Code ~ Day 7

Tony Greeley — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:41:32 +0000

Moving out of my place was more work than originally planned/intended so needed to put the challenge on pause, so am picking up right where I left off.

Completed activity 8 of JavaScript30 in which learn about the HTML canvas element and make a page where you draw on the screen with a brush that dynamically changes color and shape, which was pretty cool.

To wrap things up, the last time I was working on the Udemy course on TDD with React, I still had a couple of tests failing, and had to hunt to find the errors causing so, and as always, when the answer is hard to find, its a dumb syntactical error, which I was just discussing with a student in the bootcamp I TA for the other day, lol.

100 Days of Code ~ Day 6

Tony Greeley — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 03:21:37 +0000

Have been a little busier than normal as started moving out of my apartment today, and while I couldn't get in a full hour, wanted to make sure I got some coding in.

I did manage to complete activity 7 of JavaScript30 which happened to be another one involving array methods, specifically some, every, find, findIndex, and splice. This time went ahead and challenged myself to actually work my own solutions as opposed to coding along with Wes Bos and was able to get them all on my own!

100 Days of Code ` Day 5

Tony Greeley — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 21:56:39 +0000

Completed activity 6 of JavaScript30 which was pretty cool as did something I have never done before, make a type ahead with an AJAX call. While I have a working knowledge of RegEx was unaware of using "new RegExp()" in JS to create an expression which I found pretty cool

Finished up by completing the current section of the Udemy course I'm still working on which gave a nice review on testing connected components, something I haven't done in a loooooooooong time!

100 Days of Code ~ Day 4

Tony Greeley — Sun, 27 Dec 2020 20:21:45 +0000

Today started with activity 5 from JavaScript30 which included practicing CSS flex box and changing them with vanilla JavaScript. Wasn't super excited about this one as CSS and flex box are most certainly NOT my friend, but it did make me realize that they are simply skills I need more practice on so will be looking to do so in the near future, any recommendations on good sources for such are most definitely welcome!

Finished up by completing more of Udemy course I'm also working on React Testing with Jest and Enzyme where we moved into setting up Redux for the app were making by configuring the store, setting up reducers, including the root reducer, setting up the actions and tests for all of the above. The course actually also offers a path of making the app with React hooks instead of Redux and I'm planning on doing it both ways as while I'm very familiar with Redux, I haven't taken much time to familiarize myself with React hooks and look forward to doing so!

100 Days of Code ~ Day 3

Tony Greeley — Sun, 27 Dec 2020 00:43:43 +0000

Well, did take a day off for the holiday, but made sure I was right back at it today!

Completed the 3rd and 4th activities from JavaScript30. Activity 3 was updating CSS variables with vanilla JavaScript and activity 4 was a review on array methods. Having been out of practice for so long the array methods were a tad rusty, especially reduce so the reviews were very helpful and I will have to remember to spend much more time practicing them in the future.