Started the MERN (Mongodb, Express, React, and Node) stack, finishing up MERN tonight and on to the last section of class, State.
One word of warning if you ever take this kind of camp course: don’t say “I’ll catch up later.” Missing one class or weekly challenge mounts up.
OK, now I’m lost. I have to rewatch last night’s lecture on Apollo server and GraphQL. It’s based around Mongodb, using Mongoose.
Finished PWAs and started on React for two days. What a hot technology. It’s exciting stuff. Fast fast fast.
The end of class is only about a month out.
As a threat, China is looming large in the graduations of thousands of engineers every year. Pretty sad with all the sex ed and 1619 nonsense here.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/2-Chinese-officers-charged-in-plot-to-obstruct-17530628.php
Theft, lies, chicanery, subterfuge, and treachery. That’s a lot to say, but accurate.
Ventured into Mongo Atlas for last day of NoSQL.
Webpack Tuesday and tonight. Now this is cool. Webpack lets you use web technologies instead of Obj-C (Swift) or Java for apps. Progressive Web Apps are downloadable from a website (save to home screen). Exciting! This is the cutting edge of dev.
Monday was a holiday. Spent Tuesday and Thursday discussing MongoDB, MongoDB Compass, and Mongoose. Will be finishing up Mongo on Monday.
I still am trying to finish the second project. I didn’t know if it was I who didn’t complete my part, but the other guys got 65% and that’s what I have until I finish.
Today I was on the ball. At least I knew what was going on! Just a bit about recursion and then we did a mock interview session with classmates. Tried to act as interviewers to the other classmates. Eleanor is a smart cookie. She has some interviewing skills and it came through.
That’s where I am. Trying to learn how to respond in coding interviews. These kinds of questions about sorting algorithms are common.
The second project is behind us and we’re on to computer science for javascript. It reminds me of the CS50 class I took at Harvard online. We heard briefly about sorting algorithms last night and tonight we learn a bit about functional programming. This camp is giving us a great span of computer science and coding knowledge that we can build on later throughout life. It’s a neverending process this learning in our field.
P.S. Have to learn functional programming better as React is based on it.
We’re in the thick of it on this second project. We can use it in our portfolios for work experience. Presentation is tomorrow night. I feel woefully unprepared. But the other guys on my team are really smart and seem to have a lot ready. Just looking to add to the team. Upwards!
Started on our second, two-week project. We decided on doing an inventory system (SwiftInv) and have to pull all our studies together for this one: Javascript for Node, Express, Sequelize, Handlebars, MVC paradigm, and of course HTML and CSS.
Had to work for Peter for 9 hours today and was so beat that I did not do any work on the project. We meet again for tomorrow night’s class.
Model-view-controller has always sounded sciency. But it’s not a difficult concept, but there is a lot of work to catch up on. Just turned in my Sequelize project tonight, too.
Kind of interested in cyber still and my employer still has work! yay!
Just neat stuff that I like to learn here in class. Kind of the geek in training.
Sequelize is just beautiful for abstracting SQL.
But spent the last 5 days or so working on the challenge due tonight. The next one is going to be a bear though. I am still doing catchup on Express and Sequelize.
Moved on to Object Relational Mapping. Didn’t know what to expect here. We are getting to know all the oft-used tools of the trade:
– Sequelize is an abstraction layer through which a developer no longer has to write SQL statements! Very cool.
– Insomnia for getting/posting/putting/deleting through HTTP. So quick and visual.
– Heroku for deploying node.js apps. Look ma, no hosting!
– Express for creating servers and request/response actions and middleware.
Continuing on SQL. How to use schema.sql and seeding DBs. Tonight we get into the topic I have never grasped: joins.
Update: this rocked me.
Express seemed easy–too easy. We’re adding gradually onto our skillsets by using each skill with the others. Tonight we went in to SQL, of which I had some knowledge. But it’s great to put it all together. I can imagine the usefulness here.
Last night I built my first middleware. Still some distance to go tonight.
Express! Our first full-stack work! It came together from my work with servers/VMs and my client side coding.
I am still working on a challenge this week for node.js. It’s been a tidal wave of things to catch up on.
OOP day 2: we focused on test-driven development last night. Not following this new content and have a tutor lined up for tomorrow.
Spent a lot of time over the weekend on working a new services page for the site. Should probably not have done that 8^)
OOP! Polymorwhat? Some stuff that I knew–but never all together. This class was a little less interpersonal. Previous study groups said something, anything.
Some people in the main chat are lost as I am on certain things. Just soaking it in.
OK, now am I officially behind. And this is with basic node.js. The instructor is showing his Google expertise. Today will be spent doing my own research. I even missed my morning prayer group because of an alarm issue. I know I’m not alone in some confusion, but definitely in the minority.