Week 2 of the CenterCentre fellowship was a rollercoaster of information. The speed at which I am learning new systems and processes is blowing my mind. I quickly got a handle on the marketing emails that are supposed to be the majority of my job in the first three months of this fellowship. I'm to... Continue Reading →
I'm trying to find as much time to practice PHP as I can in between holiday festivities. I had a chance to write a short word-based game in PHP for one of my Codecademy assignments. I liked it so much, I decided to create a repository to remember it! What Is This? For this Codecademy... Continue Reading →
During my job search, I had the opportunity to interview for a backend engineering position that uses PHP. Most of my experience with backend languages is in Python and NodeJS, so I decided to sign up for the Codecademy PHP course to learn the basics of PHP. I have been learning this language for the... Continue Reading →
As a teacher, I often had to track student behavior for a variety of reasons. Most of the tracking was logged on paper and, occasionally, an Excel spreadsheet. I hated these antiquated methods because they usually involved carrying a clipboard or laptop from lesson to lesson or room to room. I wished there was an... 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 →
