Day 01 - 01-02-18 - 1 hrs, 54 mins
- Modified code from last weeks form styling for GetLoudNow.com, as per comments on pull request.
- Updated resume.
Day 02 - 01-03-18 - 5 hrs, 9 mins
- Created Week 12 pages and updates necessary headers, index, etc.
- Spent some time comparing different stacks since I now feel pretty confident in HTML5, CSS3, & JS. Decided on MERN, except with MySQL instead of MongoDB, plus react-router, fetch, & lodash for React. Then, spent a bit more comparing different learning resources and peoples' opinion on which they think are best. Decided to go with the following as primary initial learning resources:
- MySQL: Database Systems: Introduction to Databases and Data Warehouse, (Jukic 2017) - refresher on RBD modeling, normalization, etc..
- MySQL: MySQLTutorial.org - refresher on SQL syntax.
- Express: Express in Action, (Hahn, 2016)
- Express: MDN Express Guide
- Express: Express.js Official Docs
- React: React Quickly: Painless web apps with React, JSX, Redux, and GraphQL, (Mardan, 2017)
- React: React Official Docs
- Node:: The Net Ninja Node JS Video Tutorials
- Node: Node.js Design Patterns, (2017, Cascario)
- Node: Node.js Official Docs
- Functional JS: Functional-Light JavaScript, (Simpson 2017)
- Major re-structuring of roadmap page with greater details to account for defining next part of study plans in further detail. Details added for React, Express, Node, Functional JS, DB & SQL. Ordered re-done as now plan to learn Node as back-end tech prior to moving onto Python.
- Edited roadmap for grammar, spelling, & redundancy. Also a bit of css re-styling.
- Read first half of Eloquent JavaScript ch 20: Node.js
Day 03 - 01-05-18 - 10 hrs, 07 mins
- Read through Eloquent JavaScript Node notes from earlier this week for review.
- Read second half of Eloquent JavaScript ch 20: Node.js
- Read first half of official React docs Main Concepts section
- Read React Quickly ch 04: Making React Interactive with States
- Read Functional-Light JavaScript ch 01: Why Functional Programming and ch 02: The Nature of Functions, with additional outside material on closures.
- Did some small exercises to brush up on spread parameters, deconstructing, default parameters, high-order functions
- Did some short work with using closures in inner functions via outer functions which return inner functions
- Re-did my React stock app, making it much more functional and stateless instead of as stateful and imperative (except for a single new class component IntervalBoxGroup, which uses setInterval() to keep track of a changing state for switching images). Much cleaner code as a whole with more proper use of setState and excessive number of this calls gone.
Day 04 - 01-06-18 - 1 hr, 25 mins
- Read the first half of Functional-Light JavaScript ch 03: Managing Function Inputs
- Went to a friend's house and worked with them for a bit to better understand the flow of arguments and closers when using high order function calls in combo with nested fat-arrow functions.