Week 3 Day 1 - Catch your Breathe -

[mdewey]

Catch your Breathe

We have been going a fast pace for the past couple of week. Every so often, you need to reflect on how far you have come.

For tonight, we are going to take a little code break and create a blog post. Blog posts are a good way to reflect on what you have done and also share some knowledge. The best way to get better at talking about technology is practice. Blog posts are a way to practice that skill.

Objectives

Explorer Mode

• [x] On medium.com(https://medium.com/), create a blog post that talks about a concept we have went over in class. This could anything topic from HTML, CSS or JavaScript. Or it could be a lesson that learn from the past couple of weeks. All I am looking for a developer focused blog post.
• [x] to turn this in, submit to me, via the github issue, the link to the blog post

Adventure Mode

• [x] As we progress, we will be using different tools to work our brain. Today, head over to hackerrank.com (https://www.hackerrank.com/). This is another tool, like codewars to practice our developer skills. As a start, head into the algorithms section, and try this one: https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/grading/problem.
• [x] To turn this, create a gist (gist.github.com) of your code and put it on this issue

Epic Mode

• [ ] Go back and finish up any oustanding work.
• [ ] Go back to an old assignment and work on it some more. This could trying to tackle a harder level. Or going back and working on the UI/UX of an assignment, refactor the code to a new idea that we covered (EX: functions and abstractions) or adding unit tests to a something
• [ ] to turn this, put the github repo here, and tell me about what you did.

Info on the Hack-a-thon

You can find info on the hackathon at: http://synapsefl.com/innovationsummit2018/challenges/hackathons/

They should register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdNOVNIRIkRzUODo4bEt-UU_yLgNq9mTt51z-Mb5aSpQ-wqag/viewform

The livestream will be on this facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/227298157831280

The address for tonight’s Info Session is below.

Please park in the lot across Palm Avenue from the ECC.

Entrepreneur Collaborative Center 2101 E Palm Ave, Tampa, FL 33605

Immediately following the information session the challenges will be published in a Google Drive folder on synapsesummit.com/hackathons

Join the Suncoast Developers Guild Slack Channel and use the #innovationsummithack channel to ask questions, collaborate, find a team, and get updates! Be on the lookout for check-ins from the organizers. :slightly_smiling_face:

Link to join:

https://join.slack.com/t/suncoast-devs/shared_invite/enQtMzE1NzYyNjM3NzE1LTUwYmJiZmQwNzMwOTJlMTczMzQ4ODdiYmE5NDJiMDgwOGY2ODRmNDIxNTIzMGQ1ZmI3OTEwYmVjZmU3YzYzZjY

Let us know if you have any questions.

[katerigney]

https://medium.com/@katerigneydesign/my-love-for-if-else-statements-in-javascript-58f7a86ff996

[katerigney]

https://gist.github.com/katerigney/c6d2f242c7b5dbc40f24e1644061f8ba

[katerigney]

https://github.com/katerigney/blackjack

-I was able to make the card an object which is now causing code breaks all the way throughout the game. Need to refactor most of it. Was able to splice the deck, but, again, this is causing issues with the cards actually being dealt. The code examples help but I would like help with refactoring with out copying all the logic from lecture.

[mdewey]