Jan 14
- #project hail mary
#cats of tumblr
#the amazing digital circus#batman#dc#dc comics#bruce wayne#tim drake#dc fanart#batfamily#dick grayson#batfam
- #lana del rey
#deltarune- #pride month
#heated rivalry- #wlw
#batman#dc#dc comics#bruce wayne#tim drake#dc fanart#batfamily#dick grayson#batfam
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W6 / D5
We had sex for the first time since finding out I'm pregnant! I have been kind of scared really. Even though I know it's perfectly safe. I bleed a little, but I'm not surprised - just happy that I get a scan tomorrow! Even though I expected to bleed, it still took some of the mood off to see. 🙈 I know it's stupid, but I'm still afraid to use a vibrator. A part of my brain is convinced I will somehow vibrate the baby out or maybe course it brain damage. No one have had any luck to convince me otherwise yet.
W6D5
Today I Learned: how to use AJAX
And the week is over. Wow. This week we covered a lot of ground.
Topics covered this week:
How to curry functions in JS
How to chain inheritance in JS
How to use Canvas
How to use CSS
How to use jQuery
How to write a lite version of jQuery
How to use AJAX
I felt sort of lost all week long. I'm glad I have very competent cohort-mates to discuss how to do this or that (hah) with.
Anyway, we began the day with an assessment on JavaScript. It tested a variety of methods but was a fair test. I did well.
After a brief Q&A regarding AJAX, we split up into our pairs to work on the day's project: AJAX Twitter.
My partner and I were able to get through toggling follow/unfollow and creating a dynamic search bar. It was cool to be able to interact with the browser without reloading the page.
I will have to review a lot of the week's material over this weekend as well as begin learning about React!
App Academy: Week 6, Day 5
Today we used Ajax to build a miniature version of Twitter that dynamically responds to its users' input without having to reload the page. Having only updated pages in response to user input using redirects and rendering whole new pages with Rails prior to this, it felt really cool to have built something where the user can type something and immediately have the page display new data for her without any sign as to what's happening behind the scenes.
The primary way in which we achieved such dynamic feedback was by setting up event listeners using JQuery on elements for which the user might expect some kind of feedback or new data from the page. For instance, when typing in the name of other users in a search bar, the user might like to see a dynamically updated dropdown of users who match the search that she has typed so far. To achieve this, we wrote callbacks for our listeners that issue an Ajax request to the web server for whatever data is needed to properly update the page. Then, withint our Ajax request we wrote callbacks that actually do the work of updating the page with the retrieved data using JQuery to append HTML elements, change the classes of pre-existing elements, or inject text into pre-existing elements. And since the request-response cycle of an Ajax request happens without a page refresh or any indication to the user that her page is requesting new data from the server, the resultant user experience feels much smoother and natural than if the page has to flicker and refresh everytime we want to display some new information.
Ajax - w6d5
Knocked out the assessment, learned cool things about Ajax - and implemented some of it.
AJAX
Today we did a JavaScript and Rails project, using jQuery Ajax methods to make requests to the server and get data. In this way, we’re able to get applications to render data without making a new request from the browser. I will get back to you when I finish the project.
W6D5
Today we wrapped up our Javascript curriculum by learning AJAX. AJAX is "asynchronous JavaScript and XML" which allows you to run queries and functions in the background of your page without having to reload the page. We utilized this to build twitter plug-ins including a reactive button to follow/unfollow people as well as disable it while a request was pending as well as real-time searching that would fire off a search query with every character that was put in and not wait until 'search' was clicked. Not only was this a real neat feature to learn but it also gave us a lot of practice with jQuery to get me ready for Backbone starting next week.