It has been a busy few weeks at my house with Thanksgiving and traveling to Virginia to be with family. I haven't posted in a while and a lot has been happening in my coding journey. Before Thanksgiving Break, I did a quick TypeScript course on Codecademy, which helped me better understand how TypeScript complies... Continue Reading →
After many months and many long days, my capstone for the MITxPro Coding Bootcamp is finally finished! I used my frontend Bad Bank website and added a backend and database to it. Specifically, I created the backend using ExpressJS and NodeJS, and incorporated a MongoDB database. I deployed my frontend and backend on Heroku and... Continue Reading →
This week, MITxPro introduced us to serverless services with Firebase. This platform was developed by Google and provides developers the ability to create mobile and web applications with services. It gives developers tools that they often would have to build themselves like fire storage, databases, authentication, and many more. For example, in today's challenge, I... Continue Reading →
## What It Is This is a Codecademy project in which I used React, Bootstrap, and a couple of APIs to create an app that provides the user with math facts, trivia, and practice. The purpose of the project was to utilize APIs and provide the user with 'messages'. ## How It Works When the... Continue Reading →
I am currently working on a Bad Bank Front End Application for the MITxPro coding bootcamp. I built it using Create-React-App and Reactstrap. This project is the second portfolio project for this bootcamp and will be the basis for our capstone project at the end of the cohort. Building this app has been challenging, but... Continue Reading →
This week we are focusing on React and simple components. We were tasked with creating a ATM machine app. The user is able to deposit money or take out a "cash" withdrawal. The app keeps track of the account balance and utilizes a drop-down menu that allows the user to choose "Deposit" or "Cash Back."... Continue Reading →
Hi, Friends! It's been a while. I spent a few weeks traveling with the family and had a Break Week from MITxPro. I continued to work on my Full Stack Codecademy Path during the break, but I didn't add any new projects to my GitHub since my portfolio. We are currently learning React in both... Continue Reading →
Part 1 of my coding bootcamp ended with a portfolio project where we had to create a functional website. I hosted my website on GitHub and you can check it out here! I'm glad I had a chance to create a portfolio website for my Codecademy course, because this prepared me for this current project.... Continue Reading →
What Does It Do? This program identifies the locations of every bus in Boston using the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority website and uses markers to identify them on a Boston map. Every 15 seconds, the program updates the location of each bus by pulling the longitude and latitude from the MBTA data. Originally, the program... Continue Reading →
For this MITxPro challenge, we were tasked with making a game that factory produced PacMen. Then we had to make the PacMen bounce off the walls continuously. To challenge myself, I made the PacMen chomp as the moved across the screen. Then I made them face the direction of their movement while chomping. What I... Continue Reading →
