Weekly Round-up #3
Tags: codenewbie, css, html, javascript
Published: 2019-06-01 02:41:46

Welcome back to another <em>Weekly Round-up</em>. This one isn't going to quite as long as last weeks. It's been pretty crazy around here since I'm getting ready to head to New York for some fun military training. 

This week has been more family time than coding time, but I will give you guys, and gals, some insights into the coding I did accomplish.

This week in review:
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<li>Saturday - Played around with <a href="https://www.netlify.com/">netlify</a>. It's a great platform with a pretty impressive deployment speed. Just connect to your repo from your prefered repo site. Mine is <a href="https://github.com/">github</a>. Got some great feedback on the site, so I started tweaking the aesthetics. I also performed some code refactoring, which inevitably broke something. The menu decided it didn't like the refactor, and refused to work. Thanks to my buddy Sean for helping me find the problem in a pair debugging session. I created another branch via git, and we worked from that branch. Turns out I had a space where a space didn't belong. He also helped me upgrade the jQuery for the drop-down menu. He also explained where that code should go, and why. Sean has been very helpful in the short time we've known each other. Go check out his tutorials on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyH4i2twA5tdJhZVcSoNZRQ">YouTube</a></li>

<li>Sunday - Enjoyed time with my family. We had lunch with my wife's parents, and grandparents. I worked on merging the branch Sean and I worked on to fix the issues the refactor had caused via git. Pushed the changes to github, and then checked the deployed version to make sure the changes had been applied. I'm finally feeling confident with git, as well as flexbox.</li>

<li>Monday - Spent time with my parents and grilled out for Memorial Day. Someone suggested using a textured background for my site, and sent me <a href="https://transparenttextures.com/">here</a>. I played around with the different textures until I found one I liked, and added it to my site. Got some positive feedback on the changes I've been pushing, as well as some constructive criticism on some of the little details. Now that it's the little things I'm getting comments on I feel confident in moving on to the next project.</li>

<li>Tuesday - I did not move on to the next project on my list. I enjoyed teaching the second of nine lessons in the financial peace course my wife and I are coordinating. Got home after the lesson and had to pack up for my whirlwind trip down to stay with a friend that lives close to where I have an interview on Thursday. I'm excited, and nervous, about my interview. This will be my first tech job. It's an IT Customer Support/Help Desk job.</li>

<li>Wednesday - No coding today. Spent a good bit of my evening driving down to my friends house, and spent time with them before heading to bed so I can be well rested for that interview tomorrow.</li>

<li>Thursday - Went to that interview. Unfortunately I did not get the job. There will be other opportunities though. After I got home I signed up for, and started, Flatiron School's <strong>FREE</strong> <a href="https://flatironschool.com/free-courses/coding-bootcamp-prep">Coding Bootcamp Prep Course</a>. Gotta love free!</li>

<li>Friday - I jumped into more JavaScript on Scrimba's <a href='https://scrimba.com/g/gintrotojavascript'>Intro to Javascript</a> course. Attempted to dive in to <a href='https://www.npmjs.com/'>npm</a>, which I decided I wasn't ready for yet. Looked at <a href='https://bulma.io/'>Bulma</a>, which seems like a pretty cool framework, but is also something I'm not ready to dive into just yet. I decided to jump into Wes Bos' <a href='https://javascript30.com/'>JavaScript30</a> course which seems like a lot of fun, and full of real world examples. 
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Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to follow up on my week. Your time is appreciated.

If I get the chance to sling some code this week I hope to get deeper into JavaScript, get a few of the JavaScript30 exercises accomplished, and maybe even watch some Bulma and npm tutorials. 

><em>Don't forget to check out the links in the post. They lead to some cool things, as well as things that you probably already know about if you're further along than I am in your coding journey.</em>

Thanks again for joining me on my journey. See you again next week.

-Jeff