Week 08 Study Log

Day 01 - 12-03-18 - 8 hrs

• Created new week pages and updated roadmap and index headers and index body to reflect
• Modified week 06 & 07 nav bars to be sticky
• Ran all html docs and css stylesheets through W3C validation to check for errors and corrected any that existed
• Pushed Commit to Github for Week 07 work
• Read Eloquent Javascript Ch. 05: High-Order Functions and did exercises as detailed in book.

Day 02 - 12-04-18 - 7 hrs, 4 mins

• Spent awhile reading up on various programming paradigms (assembly, functional, procedural, object oriented, event driven, etc.), their workings, uses, commonalities and differences, types of execution (interpreted, compiled, etc.), characteristics (dynamic vs statically typed, weak vs strong typed, etc.), and types of structured based programming. Took notes for future reference and expansion on.
• Read first half of Eloquent Javascript Ch. 06: The Secret Life of Objects, supported by book You Don't Know JS - This & Object Prototypes, MDN JS Guide: Inheritance and the Prototype Chain, random internet articles, and a few videos, to make sure I really have down the concepts of the JS prototype-based inheritance model, classes, constructors, etc. in JS, etc.

Progress Note: Day 06 of Eloquent JavaScript. 108 out of 338 pages read. 28% Complete. At current pace, will finish about two weeks from now (12-18-18). Once learn event driven programming, DOM manipulation, Forms, and client/server data transfer, start working on various small projects (calculator, to-do list manager, etc.) and start work on a larger project. Add smaller projects and completed components of larger projects to site, to use as portfolio, and edit site interface and content to be employer ready.

Then, early January, start applying for jobs and learning Python. At current pace, by April, I should have a decent grasp on core JavaScript and Python, and can then start learning more on frameworks, such as REACT, Bootstrap, and Django.

Day 03 - 12-04-18 - 6 hrs, 56 mins

• Finished Eloquent Javascript Ch. 06: The Secret Life of Objects

Day 04 - 12-05-18 - 5 hrs, 2 mins

• Finished Eloquent Javascript Ch. 06: The Secret Life of Objects
• Finished first half of Eloquent Javascript Ch. 06 exercises (some fun work creating data structures of various specifications...Love me some data structure problems).

Day 05 - 12-06-18 - 2 hrs, 12 mins

• Read some more on the JS iterator interface via various sites online. Good JS resource: JS Rocks
• Finished second half of Eloquent Javascript Ch. 06 exercises

Day 06 - 12-09-18 - 6 hrs, 28 mins

• Experimented with different programs for formatting JS code to be displayed on websites. Decided on highlight.js
• Formatted week's JS practice code for Week 08 practice page and typed descriptions for concepts behind practice work and functionality. Useful for re-enforcing my memory as well as creating a clear display of code and output.

TOTAL TIME = 35 hrs, 42 mins