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:
- Intro that no one cares about/everyone skips over
- Basic code that everyone else knows/could write more concisely
- Cursing. Lots of cursing.
- Off-putting camera angles that make my face look like a potato
- "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. ;)
