evoingram

On November 12, 2019, I started blogging about what I learn at Lambda to document my experience there.  The 
original purpose was so that, when/if I need it, I have a list to consult of things I've learned here at Lambda and so
other people can see how far I've come in my time at school.  I started off on LiveJournal, but today I am going to 
move my blogging over to GitHub Gists. 

I'll be reposting all my previous posts here shortly.  It was going just fine over there for several weeks, but 
they suspended me for some as-yet-unknown reason with no notice.  So I didn't know until I went to log in and post 
one day after being busy with school and ReactJS all week.  So I don't even know how long it was down before I noticed, 
nor do I know how long it will be before they respond.  Really not happy about being treated this way.

evoingram

Hello, this will be a journal about my Lambda School experience as I complete it so as to document my experience.

Obligatory:
Codewars - https://www.codewars.com/users/evoingram
Company  - https://www.aquoco.co

Just started codewars like a week or so ago. So I'm 38, have owned and operated a court transcription business for 
the last decade, still do, and I'm enrolled in Lambda School's full-stack web development track. I did Geocities 
and all that back in the day. I've always been interested in coding. But my real start in coding didn't come until I 
needed for my company, A, a website and, B, an end-to-end workflow/production management system. I was the only employee 

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Pre-course work covered basic HTML, CSS, and JS.   Week 1 covered 'user interface and Git'; Git, HTML5, and moderate CSS.   
This was a very productive week for me.  I learned how to use Git, and instead of having a separate repository for each 
project every day of the week like they taught us, I learned how to make one big repository just for Lambda and use branches 
and a numbering system to maintain the projects correctly.  It is not perfect, but my GitHub is moderately clean as a result, 
and easy for me to navigate.  I also learned more than I ever wanted to know about VS Code and Emmet through Burke Holland's 
Frontend  Masters course on it, as a six-month sub is included in the Github Student Pack that comes with Lambda enrollment 
(student pack is very cool, btw; tons of cool useful things in there).  I plan to watch a lot of the videos @ FM, as what 
I've seen there so far has been extremely useful/helpful.

Week 2 covered 'advanced CSS'.  Here, I learned, over and above the curriculum, about CSS an

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Week 4, this coming week, is build week, and that project encompasses everything I learned in the rest of the unit.  Very excited 
to put together everything I've learned to produce a real, working product.  All four tracks of the school come together into 
groups to make an app, each with their own things to do corresponding  with their track.  Then we present on Friday.  The piece 
of the app you  do has to meet certain requirements corresponding with what you've learned in the unit.

In anticipation of build week, I've  been learning Bootstrap because that is one of the extra credit items  for build week, to 
use a framework.  I have a tentative design laid out  and plan to learn how to use XD this weekend.  Soon, I might be able to 
afford a fine-tipped stylus and a glove for my touch screen so I can  properly write and draw on it.

Bootstrap - https://getbootstrap.com/

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This weekend, productive was my middle name; I learned XD and used it to create a mock-up, which i uploaded to the BW repo, 
crafted an HTML skeleton for BW project, finished up taking notes for Unit 2, week one, caught up on JavaScript 30 projects; 
just finished day 5; and gave VB.NET a go. I would like to port my database to an online app, so now I'm finally sticking my 
toe in the water with that. But i also learned you can make sprites for css with Adobe Animate, which I have access to; :D. 
So Animate is definitely going on my to-learn list.

How to Make Sprites in Adobe Animate - https://theblog.adobe.com/create-a-css-sprite-sheet-in-adobe-animate-cc/

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Got into VB on Visual Studio and just learned about ASP.net; whew that is exciting!  I can pretty much create all of my 
database's forms and user interface with what i just learned from Lambda in Unit 1 and with Bootstrap.  I also got LESS 
hooked up to it, watch compiler and all.


Bootstrap - https://getbootstrap.com/
LESS - http://lesscss.org/
Visual Studio - https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/
VB - https://www.tutorialspoint.com/vb.net/index.htm
ASP.net - https://www.tutorialspoint.com/asp.net/index.htm

evoingram

Today I didn't learn much extra; worked on my website for build week.  Learned how to use Bootstrap collapse and incorporated 
several different animations into the page (from outside left to middle, outside right to middle, and then bottom to middle).   
Also learned how to make a checkmark with SVG and animate it being checked, so i now have six of those in my website.

I actually screwed up today; i thought we were only doing stand-up with our build groups, and mine has two international folks
very far apart in  time zones from each other and me, so ours isn't at the regular time  and i didn't go to the stand-up.  
But once i figured out what i did, i turned in my stand-up report and told them what happened, showed them what i worked on also.  
Forgot to give them an assignment i will give them in tomorrow's stand-up.

Today is day 7 of javascript 30.  Possibly tomorrow i will begin working on next week's assignments.  i found out so much about 

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I am sooo excited; I learned how to do a digital JS timer (https://github.com/evoingram/LambdaSchool/compare/21a1?expand=1).

Monday we're supposed to do DOM I, beginning DOM elements, and because I've already substantially completed the BW project with
every stretch goal as i am aware, i went to start next week's assignments.  I have also made all notes for next week's lessons 
in my notebook.

The stretch for Monday's assignment was to create a digital timer, and then there were stretches on top of the regular stretch 
timer, and i did all of them; pretty proud of myself for that.  Took me quite a while to figure out what i was doing wrong, but 
i got it eventually.

evoingram

Today, having done my project already, I did the first three days of Unit 2, week 1's assignments, where I learned about 
components, utilized gsap, how to deploy to heroku and with heroku/git, and that's about it for today.  Most of today was 
finishing touches on the site, getting it deployed, and then just basic assignments.

Tomorrow is feature freeze day and on Friday we present.

Next week's Thanksgiving, so I guess we're not having school, time to load up on (paid transcription) work next week.  A whole week!  
How far ahead will I be able to get on my assignments???

How to Deploy a Website on Heroku - https://blog.teamtreehouse.com/deploy-static-site-heroku

evoingram

Today, I learned about basics of React, caught up on my careers assignments through the next assignment which is not due yet 
(week 5), and talked to a careers person during office hours about Lambda's hiring partners.  I did some reflecting on what I 
want when hiring time comes.

I'm not posting any Lambda videos, but I will post other ones I watched such as these: 

Brad Traversy's ReactJS Crash Course - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBws8MSXN7A