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So I am finally finished with the Free Code Camp Random Quote Generator. I can breathe a sigh of relief until next project.

I finished it at 1 am yesterday morning. I wasn’t going to sleep until it was finished and I didn’t. I tweaked it well into the morning, finally falling asleep after decompressing with The Forensic Files on Netflix around 4:30 am. I was so anxious and on this programmer’s high that I couldn’t sleep.

I shared it on Twitter and mentioned Free Code Camp and I got a lot of likes and retweets as Free Code Camp retweet it.

I took my design and existing code and reengineered it for what I needed it to do.

Learning While Building

So a funny thing happened while I spent my Saturday heads down, headphones on coding this thing for 7 hours:

The more you build, the more you learn.

Screenshot2016-07-24_08-12-22_PM

This has been repeated to me many times. I was in a tutorial loop, partially because the gamification is so rewarding and also because I was afraid of making something broken and ugly.

My portfolio is super ugly. I have made it private on CodePen 1 and am thinking about making it a Portfolio 2.0 some time down the road.

I was so frustrated after I started it at the end of June because I would look at code and not understand what it did. My design was needlessly complicated, and I was just all over the place with it.

I went back to Treehouse after scrapping my design and taking a week and a half break from it. I worked on it here and there. But Saturday while working on it and looking at documentation and googling the hell out of my issues, I actually understood the API code I copied and reengineered it. I consulted the documentation for jQuery and decided on which methods and event handlers to use pretty much on my own.

I was proud of what I had done. While a lot of that code was not mine, I made it mine, my design, everything.

Looking Ahead to the Weather App

I am not sure I will have enough time between now and the start of the semester to work on the Weather app. I will be using the Forecast.io API because it is the most accurate 2. Dark Sky and a few other apps use it so I want to give it a shot. I took all of Sunday off to decompress from the high of completing the Random Quote Generator. I am writing this article at 12:30 am and am getting a bit tired. I just wanted to share the progress I made as a developer and on the RQG. You can find it here: 3 

http://codepen.io/twhite96/pen/XKqrJX

 

  1. I am a pro user. A lot of features come in super handy while building apps in there for Free Code Camp ↩︎
  2. Hopefully it is free to use ↩︎
  3. There’s a caveat, though and that is there is a bug in Twitter sharing that adds a <p> tag to the beginning of the share. I am looking into it and will hope to fix it in the next few days. ↩︎
    4. celebrate So I am finally finished with the Free Code Camp Random Quote Generator. I can breathe a sigh of relief until next project. I finished it at 1 am yesterday morning. I wasn’t going to sleep until it was finished and I didn’t. I tweaked it well into the morning, finally falling asleep after decompressing with The Forensic Files on Netflix around 4:30 am. I was so anxious and on this programmer’s high that I couldn’t sleep. I shared it on Twitter and mentioned Free Code Camp and I got a lot of likes and retweets as Free Code Camp retweet it. I took my design and existing code and reengineered it for what I needed it to do.

    Learning While Building

    So a funny thing happened while I spent my Saturday heads down, headphones on coding this thing for 7 hours: The more you build, the more you learn. Screenshot2016-07-24_08-12-22_PM This has been repeated to me many times. I was in a tutorial loop, partially because the gamification is so rewarding and also because I was afraid of making something broken and ugly. My portfolio is super ugly. I have made it private on CodePen 1 and am thinking about making it a Portfolio 2.0 some time down the road. I was so frustrated after I started it at the end of June because I would look at code and not understand what it did. My design was needlessly complicated, and I was just all over the place with it. I went back to Treehouse after scrapping my design and taking a week and a half break from it. I worked on it here and there. But Saturday while working on it and looking at documentation and googling the hell out of my issues, I actually understood the API code I copied and reengineered it. I consulted the documentation for jQuery and decided on which methods and event handlers to use pretty much on my own. I was proud of what I had done. While a lot of that code was not mine, I made it mine, my design, everything.

    Looking Ahead to the Weather App

    I am not sure I will have enough time between now and the start of the semester to work on the Weather app. I will be using the Forecast.io API because it is the most accurate 2. Dark Sky and a few other apps use it so I want to give it a shot. I took all of Sunday off to decompress from the high of completing the Random Quote Generator. I am writing this article at 12:30 am and am getting a bit tired. I just wanted to share the progress I made as a developer and on the RQG. You can find it here: 3  http://codepen.io/twhite96/pen/XKqrJX  
    1. I am a pro user. A lot of features come in super handy while building apps in there for Free Code Camp ↩︎
    2. Hopefully it is free to use ↩︎
    3. There’s a caveat, though and that is there is a bug in Twitter sharing that adds a <p> tag to the beginning of the share. I am looking into it and will hope to fix it in the next few days. ↩︎