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Showing Up Everyday and Other Things
In my latest newsletter, I posted about having a routine and doing the work.It’s been two months now, and that is basically what I’ve done…
Burnout, Health, and Starting Over
This post is a recycled newsletter I just recently released but with extra content.From the newsletter:Last year’s hell is this year’s…
Q1 Goals Update: Some Meh, Mostly Good
I started out the year in bad shape. By February it was on: coding almost daily, diving into projects, making good on doctor’s appointments…
Twitch, YouTube, Egghead, and Zoom: My New Projects and Setup
I do have a Twitch channel.There’s nothing here though.Why?Introverted. Black. Female. Out of shape. The list goes on.It is not so much that…
Music Friday's Playlist: Dirty, Grungy, Sweaty Rock
If you were a teenager in the mid-nineties, I don’t need to remind you of the amount of pessimism that occurred during that era; from Kurt…
Some Music I'm Vibing To This Spring
Photo by Ilya Ilford on UnsplashI am a big time music head. All kinds.I am thinking of sharing things I’m listening to.I stopped my Spotify…
Three Ways to Pass Props to Components Outside of Parent/Child Relationships
It is really late here on the East Coast but I have been wanting to get this out for weeks now. If there are any errors or wrong examples…
Open Source and the Role of a Good README
I spent the better part of last week working on a project I started almost two years ago.The premise? Create a repository of books for web…
Realizations & Breakthroughs
Photo by Stink Pickle on UnsplashI have been working on Check Yo Self for quite a while.At first, it was because I was deciding on the tech…
Setting Up a New Mac with a Shell Script
Photo by Pankaj Patel on UnsplashThe concept of setting up a new Mac with a shell script in the programming community is not a new thing…
Bugfix: Spelunking in Someone Else's Code
I love CodeSandbox. It has pretty much replaced CodePen for me unless I am fiddling around with CSS or freeCodeCamp front-end projects.I…
End of Year Wrap-up and 2019 Goals
Let’s start this post off with a bit of honesty:This year has been hell, emotionally, mentally, physically, and professionally.I will be…
Big O Notation
Big O: How to Determine the Efficiency of Some FunctionTo determine what the the efficiency of some function is, first we have to clarify…
Building a JavaScript CLI Tool
I am currently building a small CLI tool based on my current React project, Check Yo Self.The app is a web interface for checking the…
How to Bind this in React Without a Constructor
in React is a reference to the current component. Usually in React is bound to its built-in methods so that when you want to update state…
Destructuring Objects in ES6
What is destructuring?Destructuring is a way to extract values from nested arrays and objects.When you use destructuring, you are taking a…
2017 Wrap-up and 2018 Goals
Wrapping up a year is never a thing one wants to do. At least I don’t.2017 was an amazing year; I built a full-stack app I was proud of with…
ES6 Modules
ES6 modules allows us to have reusable code, in separate files. We do this to eliminate initially massive js files, like in a Node and…
DRY Code and Using IIFEs to Clean Up Code
DRY: Don’t Repeat YourselfAs you may have seen in my last post, I have some ridiculous conditional statement blocks going on to show/hide…
Background Image Hacks in CSS
Yesterday I found myself in a situation where the background image in my freeCodeCamp Weather App on mobile was cut off at the bottom…
Check Yo Self Update & Eliminating Dev Dependencies
I worked like a fiend over the weekend on Check Yo Self, reading documentation, implementing features, and taking some away.Going over the…
CRUD and My New App, Check Yo Self
I have taken a bit of a break from the coding/learning thing as I suffer from a bit of depression every now and again, outside of the usual…
Concise, Modular JavaScript
Working with JavaScript again at Treehouse, I went over the Arrow Syntax again.Before it really wasn’t making much sense. I mean, I thought…
Breaking Things
This semester, this whole year even, has seen a dramatic increase in productivity and a conscious effort for self-care— making necessary…
100 Days of Code, Day 11
31 October 2016Today’s Progress: Web Development class was cancelled today— our professor most likely had to take his kids Trick or Treating…
CSS Animations
Transition Timing Functions, Delays, and TransformsYou can do some really cool things with CSS that I wasn’t sure I would like.I’m a big…
100 Days of Code Day 9
Day 9: 27 October 2016Today’s Progress: It’s been a while! I programmed quite a bit but didn’t write anything. So it’s 100 Days of Code Day…
100 Days of Code Day 8
Day 8: 8 October 2016Today’s Progress: I know I haven’t written about the challenge of late but I have been working tirelessly on this e…
100 Days of Code Day 5
Day 5: 5 October 2016Today’s Progress: Yesterday was a rough one as far as sleeping. I was up pretty much all night trying to push feature…
100 Days of Code Days 3 and 4
Day 4: 4 October 2016Today’s Progress: I went to InfoSci class today. When I got home, I ate, and went to work on the e-commerce site.I…
100 Days of Code Log, Day 2
Day 2: 1 October 2016Today’s Progress:I worked on the file. I added a different color navbar, added some more shepherd anchors. I also am…
Working on the E-commerce Site for Class
I am going to be making a mock ecommerce site for my Web Development class final project.It consists of two parts:The foundation with HTML…
Function vs. Block Level Scoping with let and const
This is an exposé on the difference between function and block level scope using and in JavaScript. The following explanation is how I’ve…
ES6 and Lambdas
I am taking the JavaScript ES6 course on Treehouse. I should have waited a bit, as I am still learning ES5. Eric Elliott made the case that…
Algorithm Solutions
I’ve completed three more Free Code Camp algorithms since my last go on May 30th.I needed less guidance on these particular algorithms, all…
Completing Algorithms
So, the last time I wrote an article here, I was struggling with the Truncate String algorithm.I took to the forums again and a guy named…
Algorithms…Again
Contacts App Update
I haven’t written an article in a week or so. I have lost time or something because I don’t remember what I did while I was away. I did work…
Digging Into OOP JavaScript
On Treehouse, I am going through their Full-stack JavaScript track and we came up on OOP JavaScript.Learning about Objects, state, and the…
Crawling Before You Walk
I am reading Data Structures and Algorithms in JavaScript and I’m up to Chapter 8 when we are talking about hash table algorithms.I had to…
Expanding and Diving Into Small Apps
I have completed both front-end projects for Free Code Camp and I have taken a longer than usual break from programming for personal reasons…
Completed The First Front-End Project
So I finished the first front-end project for Free Code Camp in a couple days. It doesn’t render really well on mobile. I can’t seem to get…
College vs Self-Learning
I wrote a story over at Medium about my recent decision to drop out of school.Give it a look.
Array Methods in JavaScript
Different Types of MethodsThere are a few basic methods to work with arrays in JavaScript. The most basic and, perhaps the most familiar, is…
Confidence Through Self-Talk
This first assignment was a bear.All during my time working on it, I began to feel small and worthless as a programmer. But let’s back up a…
Bonfire Tears (Free Code Camp Edition)
There comes a point in every new programmers life when they hit a barrier, a wall, a threshold of understanding or non-understanding of the…
Day 10: AJAX
So a few days ago, I started the AJAX track at Treehouse. So with AJAX, all sorts of cool things happen, like a Google Maps, Gmail, etc…
Day 9: Finishing Intermediate JavaScript on Treehouse Plus: New Contributor
So I learned more about traversing the DOM with JavaScript instead of the sugary jQuery library which makes me feel great. I like jQuery and…
Moving Right Along in CS 0007, Intro to Programming in Java
So class is moving along at a regular clip. I am learning about syntax and seeing similarities between other languages. I have written four…
Day 7: Drawing App
We used more HTML5 and JavaScript in this exercise. We had an HTML5element which we have to use JavaScript interactivity to; we can’t use…
Day 8: HTML Tables and The DOM
So today was basically going over HTML tables. Easy. Then we went through MDN JavaScript Web API to learn about the DOM.Went inside Chrome…
Day 6: Password Forms & Tooltips
Here we just iterated on what we learned previously with:We learned two new methods,andin relation to making it so the tooltips showed up…
Day 5: Mobile Dropdown Menu
We went over more of the same but learned some new methods and event handlers.We learned about GET methods likewhich manipulates the DOM to…
Day 4: Lightbox
So yesterday we made a simple lightbox for a set of images, which I found hard to follow the lesson somehow.Assigning jQuery elements to a…
Day 3: Event Handlers and Animations
I only did one jQuery class today as I had a lot to get done otherwise, but we went over documentation (which I never use the browser for…
Day 2: Rehashing jQuery Basics
So today I went over jQuery basics, documentation and a total disruption of what I learned on Free Code Camp and Codecademy.At both Free…
Day 1- Java with Multiple Strings, Formatters, and Conditionals
What I learned…errr last night was about using multiple strings with formatters in Java. For instance:This is sort of like when I was doing…
New Post Idea- Daily, Bi-Daily Updates
If you aren’t reading my fellow Code Newbie Nick Queen’s blog you should. It’s great. Besides being great, the format has given me an idea…
Back and Forth I Go... All the Pretty Languages!
There’s really no way around it– tutorials are time sucking entities that are making my head spin.I went to a meetup last week, a Girl…
Making Good Habits, or Coding Regularly
I have to say, after getting in my groove two weeks ago, smashing all the Free Code Camp challenges left and right, I got upended by having…
Off-Topic: Nerves, College Admissions, and More Nerves
Being a resident of Pittsburgh and all the companies here that hire tech talent (not to mention the startups coming in and the influx of…
Episode 3 Is Live-- With Some Oddness
Well, this episode is a tad off— monitoring myself while recording throws off my speech— I would assume it does it to everyone that listens…
Argument Variables and ValueErrors in Python
Going through more Zed Shaw tutorials with Learn Python the Hard Way and finding it excellent as it gets more challenging. We are working…
CSS and Stack Overflow
My friend Piper put me on the correct path for my footer with the following code:But that left me with some janky (my new favorite word…
Alice First Look
Alice
