This week at my Web Dev Fellowship at Center Centre - UIE, I was given a task that tested my skills as a PHP developer. The Goal The ad banner at the bottom of a specific article needs to be different than the ad banner on all other articles. Dr. Leslie Jensen-Inman's "Yes. And..." article... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Codecademy Challenge: Build a Portfolio Website. Background Image of Portfolio Website What I Built For this challenge, I had to build a Portfolio Website that showcased some of my previous projects. I created a home page with a nav bar, three featured projects, links to my LinkedIn, GitHub, and email, and an additional About Me... Continue Reading →
