Day 01 - 03-03-20 - 1 hr, 46 mins
- Continued reading Head First Design Patterns, focusing on strategy pattern. See notes here.
Day 02 - 03-04-20 - 3 hrs, 57 mins
- Continued reading Head First Design Patterns up to page 117, but really don't like it's teaching style and how it teaches by round-about example, instead of by foundations first, then brief example for application. Way too drawn out for me, so dropping. See notes so far here.
- Spent some time looking for a replacement for Head First and decided on Dive Into Design Patterns, Alexander Shvets (2019).
- Read the first two chapters of Dive Into Design Patterns, mostly just review on OOP basics and basic design principles, but good to go over many times to help concrete learning. Notes here.
Day 03 - 03-05-20 - 2 hrs, 34 mins
- Some maintenance and small feature work on the site. Updated weekly favicons as all recent were improperly set to JS favicon. Add iframes with notes in PDF across recent weeks at page bottoms.
- Continued reading Dive Into Design Patterns, covering design principles, and did practice work with tightly coupled vs program to interface, decoupled code
Day 04 - 03-06-20 - 3 hrs, 40 mins
- Site practice weeks CSS refactoring. Previously each practice week page had own css file for bulk of CSS for page. These files often contained duplicate code, and sometimes styled identical structures (ex. code block) to look the same or similar, but with different CSS. Went through CSS for all practice pages and put built uniform CSS for repeated components, split into seperate CSS files, and seperated only page unique CSS into weekly CSS files.