App Academy: 12 Weeks of Coding

A daily chronicle of the first leg of my journey to becoming a professional programmer.

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w9d2

Today was the second day of the last week of the capstone. I worked extensively on cleaning up my fetching of data from Backbone (I'm sure that reads super exciting!)

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w9d5

Today I worked on CSS to finish my project. I presented in the afternoon. was a great success....now on to the job search !

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w8d4

Today I worked on CSS, mainly on Project form and backing form views. Tomorrow I will implement authorization for payments and extra CSS. Final day!

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w9d3

Today was our third to last day of working on our capstone projects. I worked on pagination and infinite scrolling, entirely on the Backbone side!

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w9d1

First day of last week of full-on balls to the wall work at App Academy. Halfway through my capstone project!

http://www.cash-cow.io/

there it is!

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w8d5

I ended the first week of work on the capstone with a fair bit of refactoring as well as eliminating N+1 queries on the rails side.

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w8d4

Today was the 3rd day working on the capstone projects. I worked on Omni Auth using Twitter, as well as some basic CRUD actions for follows and backings. Have all the pages I need now for my CashCow / Kickstarter clone :)

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w8d3

Today was the second day of our capstone project. I worked primarily in Backbone, working on displaying various combinations of all the projects, for the root and the discovery page. Beginning with more Rails models and controllers (follows and funding) tomorrow!

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w8d2

today was my first day doing my capstone! exhausted...

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w8d1

Today I finished my Trello Clone. Worked almost the whole day on dragging and dropping lists and cards!

Cheers, Griffin

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w7d4

Today, Ari Weitzman and I worked on a News Feed app, which involved writing Backbone from the ground up. Put a lotta back into it, if ya know what I mean!

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w7d3

Today Adam Gaynor and I worked on a Journal App in Backbone. This was a great exercise in bringing together Views, Models, Collections, and Routers (with the slight help from the backbone on rails gem).

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w7d2

Today was our second day of working on the Pokedex App, in which we restructured our Backbone code to dynamically change the page through a backbone router with associated views for different URL fragments.

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w7d1

Yesterday we built a Pokedex in Backbone, which introduced both a new subject (Backbone) and one I hadn't thought about since the 3rd Grade.

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w5d5

Today we worked on a Twitter clone project involving the use of Javascript plug-ins. These plugins took control of user events to issue ajax requests behind the scenes, allowing for a smoother experience. First experience with Ajax was a success!

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w6d5

Yesterday we wrote 3 plugins in Javascript. Great practice with CSS and DOM manipulation via event handling! Assessment is today ... wish me luck :)

Cheers, Griffin

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w6d3

Today I wrote 2 games in Javascript designed for the browser: TicTactoe and Towers of Hanoi. Involved pulling together our work on Javascript, CSS, JQuery!