Mini-post: Killing Time with Code

 

 

I start my new job on the 18th! In the meantime, I've been working on smaller projects to keep my skills sharp!

So far I have:

• Used JFrame for the first time to make a Java-based version of Flappy Bird, which even after I slowed down the speed, I am decidedly bad at
  
• Created a command line mortgage calculator
• Decided the mortgage calculator needed some pizazz and made web application using HTML/CSS and JavaScript. Screen shot above. 
• Watched a ton of tutorials on Udemy and Code With Mosh
• Katas, katas, katas...
  

I post most of my code on GitHub, if you'd like to see anything in detail. 

A lot of the material I'm going through is review, but I'm so happy to be doing it at my own pace. Tech Elevator was great and I definitely wouldn't understand this stuff without having attended, but it is incredibly fast-paced. To be honest, I felt stupid most of the time.  It's nice to go back and see that even though I struggled, I did retain a lot of the information. 

I considered making some tutorial videos, but they'd probably go like this:

1.  Intro that no one cares about/everyone skips over
   
2.  Basic code that everyone else knows/could write more concisely
3. Cursing. Lots of cursing. 
4. Off-putting camera angles that make my face look like a potato
5. "Plz subscribe, lolz"
   

I do have an idea to make one on basic CSS layouts. Just a few tricks to get your site out of the 90's. Perhaps I'll do that later, if I get bored and feel like opening myself up to another venue of potential internet criticism.  ;)