My Daily Coding Blog

January 31 2017

• Completed Ruby Building Blocks project
• Caesar Cipher
• Stock picker
• Substring function

dictionary = ["below","down","go","going","horn","how","howdy","it","i","low","own","part","partner","sit"]
def substrings(string, dictionary)
    strings = Hash.new(0)

    dictionary.each do |word|
        if string.include?word
            strings[word] = string.scan(word).length
        end
    end
    return strings
end

The Odin Project-Blog Post 3

Week 3 - Course 1 Wrap-Up

January 26-28 2017

• Worked on and completed Ruby on Rails blog app project
• GitHub
• Finished Additional Important Topics and Tying It All Together sections in Web Developement 101

January 25 2017

• Followed along this Rails blog app walkthrough

January 23-24 2017

• TOP Blog Post #2
• Updated Weekly Goals
• Completed Ruby testing project
• Completed Khan Academy tutorial on SQL and read about relational databases
• Read this article on Ruby on Rails
• Read chapter 1 of Hartl's Rails book and created first rails app

The Odin Project-Blog Post 2

Week 2 - Etch-a-Sketch and Learning Ruby

January 20-22 2017

• Level 1 of RSpec tutorial on Code School
• TDD Tutorial
• Began Ruby testing project

January 19 2017

• Read chapters 4 through 10 of Learn to Program and completed exercises

class OrangeTree

    def initialize
        @age = 0
        @orangeCount = 0
        @height = 0
        puts "An orange tree is planted."
    end

    def height
        puts "Tree is " + @height.to_s + " feet tall."
    end

    def oneYearPasses
        puts "One year passes"
        @age = @age + 1
        @height = @height + 10

        if @age >= 3
            @orangeCount = @orangeCount + 1
        end
    end

    def countTheOranges
       puts "The tree has " + @orangeCount.to_s + " oranges!"
    end

    def pickAnOrange
        if @orangeCount > 0
        @orangeCount = @orangeCount - 1
        puts "What a delicious orange!"
            else
            puts "There are no oranges to pick this year"
        end
    end
end

tree = OrangeTree.new
tree.oneYearPasses
tree.oneYearPasses
tree.oneYearPasses
tree.oneYearPasses
tree.height
tree.countTheOranges
tree.pickAnOrange

January 18 2017

• Finished entire Ruby track on codecademy
• Read first 3 chapters of Chris Pine's Learn to Program

January 17 2017

• Completed etch-a-sketch project
• Began Ruby course on codecademy

The Odin Project-Blog Post 1

Week 1 - “Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of the trigger.”

January 14 2017

• Completed Code School's "Try jQuery" course
• completed Codecademy's jQuery course

January 13 2017

• Solved Multiples of 3 and 5 problem from Project Euler

function sum(){
        var result = 0;
        for(var i=0;i<1000;i++){
            if(i%5===0 && i%3===0){
            console.log(i += result);
                }
                }
            }

• Codecademy's first 3 jQuery sections
• Code School's first 4 "Try jQuery" sections

January 12 2017

• The Odin Project Developer tools sections
  • 2 Code School courses
  Began and nearly finished HTML/css project - google homepage copy
• Learned how to git -f push origin

Januray 11 2017

• The Odin Project
• Version Control basics
• Code School's Try Git course
• Codecademy's Learn Git course
• Completed Git Project
• Completed HTML/CSS Android tutorial Project and used git to push it to GitHub

January 10 2017

• Created a gh-pages site for this blog
• CodeWars problem - The function should take three arguments - operation(string/char), value1(number), value2(number). The function should return result of numbers after applying the chosen operation.

        function basicOp(operation, value1, value2){
            return eval(value1+operation+value2);
            }
            basicOp('-', 15, 18);//-3

• Began The Odin Project and completed section 1: The Basics
• Completed a command line crash course on Viking Code School
• Completed first two sections of Codecademy's command line course
• Installed Ruby, Rails, Heroku, RVM, Ruby Gems, and deployed my first rails app

January 9 2017

• Weekly goals page
• Learned how to make partial templates via the node tutorial video series - you make one file with, for example, a nav that can be included using javascript on all the pages of your site.
• Learned how to use queries and automatically fill input forms with them
• Added links to index navigation and tried to get the CSS right - unfinished
• Asked r/learnjavascript about on-site vs. online bootcamps

January 5 2017

• Design patterns
• Singleton pattern
• Mediator pattern - it's like the "flight tower" of your workflow
• Tried and failed to complete a CodeWars problem but got valuable pseudocoding practice
• Worked on blog
• added month name to header of each page
• added margins to body
• fooled around with index page CSS for awhile

Today was one of the days where I worked for seven or eight hours, but I feel like I barely accomplished anything. I can attribute this feeling to three reasons:

1. I had a hard time grasping the design patterns I studied.
2. I spent over an hour trying to hack a CodeWars problem but eventually had to unlock the solutions.
3. I spent the majority of my evening grinding my teeth and trying to get the index page of the blog right - unfinished business.

January 4 2017

• Created the January page and changed the a:hover effects
• Read about and practiced the module design pattern

//Module Pattern
var cartModule = (function () {
    //privates
    var cart = [];

    return {
    //return object exposed to the public
    addItem: function(items) {
        cart.push(items);
    },
    countItem: function() {
        return cart.length;
    }

  };
})();
cartModule.addItem("bread");
cartModule.addItem("soap");
cartModule.addItem("beer");
console.log(cartModule.countItem());//3
console.log(cartModule.cart)//undefined because it's private

• And the Revealing module pattern

//The Revealing Module Pattern
var fellowship = (function() {

    var quest = "adventure";

    var members = function(mems){
        return " " + mems + " are going on the " + quest;
    }

    return {

        setMembers: members,
        setQuest: quest

    };
})();

console.log(fellowship.setMembers("The fellowship"));//The fellowship are going on the adventure

January 3 2017

• Created folder on Weekly-Goals repository to store past weeks' goals/performance, and updated the Readme for the current week
• Continued watching Node JS Tutorial for Beginners
• Learned basic routing
• Installed nodemon
• Learned how to use express, and how much easier it is to route than using conditionals

//Basic Routing
var http = require('http');
var fs = require('fs');

var server = http.createServer(function(request, response){
    console.log("server was created" + request.url);

    if(request.url === '/home' || request.url === '/'){
    response.writeHead(200, {'content-type': 'text/html' });
    fs.createReadStream(__dirname + '/node.html').pipe(response);
    } else if(request.url === '/dec'){
    response.writeHead(200, {'content-type': 'text/html' });
    fs.createReadStream(__dirname + '/node-december.html').pipe(response);
    } else if(request.url === '/api/nfl'){
        var dolphins = [{name: "Miami Dolphins", conference: "AFC", division: "East", city: "Miami Gardens"}];
        response.writeHead(200, {'content-type': 'application/json'});
        response.end(JSON.stringify(dolphins));
    }
    else {
    response.writeHead(200, {'content-type': 'text/html' });
    fs.createReadStream(__dirname + '/node-404.html').pipe(response);
    }
});

server.listen(8000);
console.log("listening to localhost 8000");