Teaching and coding
In January this year I applied for a scholarship to attend Webstock 2016 in mid February. I had seen information about the scholarship a few weeks before I applied but I wasn't too sure if Webstock would be good/useful to go to being a very new developer. I didn't actually really know what Webstock was … Continue reading Webstock 2016
About a year ago I dropped a bombshell on the senior management at school. I had decided I wanted to take a year out of teaching to learn how to program, develop websites and overall have a better understanding of what it is all about. Reasons why I wanted to do this: I couldn't see myself … Continue reading From teacher to developer – my journey this year
The last three to four weeks have been very hectic. I started Phase 3 on the 15th of June. The first week of this Phase was Rails week, the first half of the second week was doing more in Javascript and then on the Thursday we started our final project.The final project went for a … Continue reading Phase 3 and Final Project – Dev Academy
This past week at Enspiral Dev Academy I have had a fantastic time! In the guide for this phase it has this: Phase 3 is the most exciting phase here at EDA. In this phase we no longer view you as students or developers-in-training, rather we look at you to be valuable, albeit junior, collaborators … Continue reading Hello Rails! Week 1, Phase 3 – Dev Academy
Wow, so another phase completed and the final phase to go. I have enjoyed Phase 2 a lot. It has been great getting out of the console and onto the web. I like making sites look good and felt pretty confident with HTML and CSS before Phase 2. It has been heaps of fun to dive … Continue reading Phase 2 done – Dev Academy Bootcamp
I have completed Phase 1 of Enspiral Dev Academy bootcamp! Yay! I am really excited to get into Phase 2 as we graduate to Sinatra - a domain-specific language, which we will be using to create web applications! It is like graduating to secondary school! During Phase 0 I really enjoyed working with HTML5, CSS3, Javascript and JQuery, … Continue reading Phase 1 Completed! Dev Academy Bootcamp
Dev Academy Bootcamp: Phase 1 - Week 2 -- Object Oriented Programming The focus of this week has been Object Oriented Programming. During this week I have learnt: a lot about classes and fruit trees! (The first activity was creating an Orange Tree Grove and then converting it into a Tree Grove with different types of … Continue reading Dev Academy Bootcamp: Wk 2 — OOP
Week 8: Databases + Review We did this stuff: Treehouse: Database Foundations Review JavaScript Objects with Codecademy: JavaScript - Data Structures, Objects I, and Objects II. JavaScript Gradebook JavaScript Tally Votes Fizz Buzz Super Edition Nums to Words Javascript Olympics I quite liked learning more about SQL as I had learnt a little bit while … Continue reading DevAcademy: final two weeks of Phase 0!
Note: 2 May - whoops, this one has been sitting in my drafts for about 5 weeks! Last week I learnt a lot about JavaScript and JQuery. One of the challenges for Week 3 of Phase 0 (for Dev Academy) was adding interactivity to our own site/s. I added a simple Lightbox effect to my … Continue reading More JQuery – mobile drop down menu
WEEK 5 Week 5 of Dev Academy was about building on what we covered in Week 4. Last week you built up a toolkit of ruby methods. You practiced with them and gained a good intuition of how they work, what they're used for, and so on. This week you'll use that toolkit to solve … Continue reading Dev Academy: Week 5 – Algorithms and Week 6 – Classes = lots of hard work!
SchuKnight's Learning Journey 