JuniorLearnsToCode

I got a new logo! I talked my designer friend into making a logo for me, since I suck at design.. I wanted it clean and simple here it is: Keep coding!

I got a shout out from Coding Phase, just a word of warning; one of my favorite past times is making up brand new ancient proverbs.. Here's a meme to sum it up: That's all for today, thanks for stopping by!

Recently I applied for an internship in a pretty cool company and they gave me a task.  I was tasked with building a simplified Twitter clone, without registration and a login. I learned a lot from it but it think the most important lesson is when faced with a challenge that seems to difficult is to break it into small problems and solve those small tasks one by one. First thing that came to my mind was that there was no way I can do any of this! I was required to use either MERN MEAN  stack for the mini app. I was in a bit of a dilemma on choosing  between React/Flux and AngularJS. I went with AngularJS since I took a few Angular tutorials before and haven't played around with React yet. For the entire first day I just felt stuck and stupid so I didn't get any work done... The next day I finally snapped out of it and started with some pseudo code. I started with basic HTML layout and some basic CSS styling. The next road block was when ...

You probably took plenty of online courses , but! Michael Kornblum, from the Real Tough Candy gitter chat room/community has taken his time to teach web development on Mondays, at 7pm US Central Standard time using Google Hangouts every subsequent Monday at the same time in the same place. Here is the short description of the first class, held on September 11th: Web Development 101 Welcome Front-end Developers This class is an introduction to front-end web development. It is intended to teach students the fundamentals of this subject in a manner which follows best practices, namely progressive enhancement and accessibility. The class will begin on Monday, September 11th at 7pm US Central Standard time on Google Hangouts and meet every subsequent Monday at the same time in the same place. In order to get the most out of this class, you will need to have the following software installed and operational on your system. A Text Editor Ideally you will wa...

 Should you do UNPAID Developer Internships?    Stefan Mischook answered my question in a vlog, if the topic interest you check out the video:

Dev Spotlight Series  Real Tough Candy (a web development YouTube channel and Blog) just started a new series of interviews with aspiring web developers on her website , I'd highly recommend that you check out her out site (not because the first interview is with me, haha) and subscribe to her YouTube channel! First part of the Dev Spotlight Series:  https://365blottochallenge.com/dev-spotlight-series Candy's YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC54NcJvLCvM2CNaBjd5j6HA Real Tough Candy gitter chat room:  https://gitter.im/realtoughcandy-community/Lobby

Falling in love with jQuery! No big discovery here, but as I was starting the jQuery section of  Colt Steel's Udemy Bootcamp course I immediately fell in love with the simplicity and the intuitive implementation of jQuery! All the bashing jQuery gets is completely unnecessary in my (rather noobish) opinion, John Resig made one of the best JavaScript libraries ever made, and the fact that it has been widely adopted by so many websites and still is widely used speaks enough of it's quality. Many libraries and frameworks coming and going, jQuery has been around since January 2006 - 10 plus years is a LOT in IT terms. One last thing, as I was going trough the course lessons I took a small break to check what's up on YouTube, and Beau from Free Code Camp just published his tutorial on jQuery!  Maybe Fate wants me to learn jQuery...