aok1425 / my-js-project

Steps

Next steps

• read through the 5 JS learning resources to decide your learning roadmap in order to "know" front-end JS well enough
• set specific, achievable, ambitious goals by next wk's status update, and fill out below

Learn JS for front-end

• some JS learning resources:
  • https://sivers.org/learn-js
  • http://www.theodinproject.com/javascript-and-jquery
  • https://www.codeschool.com/courses/javascript-road-trip-part-1
  • https://medium.com/@_cmdv_/i-want-to-learn-javascript-in-2015-e96cd85ad225#.tequmir0f
  • https://medium.com/javascript-scene/learn-javascript-b631a4af11f2#.2x8v367y9
  • Henry might know which of the resources mentioned are best
  • I can give a $500 allowance on books. Just lmk which ones you buy.
• commit some app that shows you know the material ($100)

Decide collaboratively what website you want to build out

(You don't need to decide on your webapp now, since it will take a while to learn the JS "well-enough", so I'm moving this section down.)

• decide on content
  • a site with static content is fine for your first website
    • one idea is a single-page application with each Smite character like a baseball card that you can flip around, telling its stats, etc.
    • you can also have the card contents be automatically filled out by pulling from some API, or in a more time-consuming method, by scraping the contents off of a site and putting it into a database.
  • ideally it provides some kind of functionality, solves some problem for the end-user
    • see examples here: https://hackbrightacademy.com/blog/29-web-apps-created-in-4-weeks-by-hackbright-academys-spring-2015-software-engineers/

Learn Python or Ruby on Rails or Ruby + Sinatra or Express.js for back-end ($100)

• chat with Henry to get a better idea which one to use

Create "Hello, World" website ($230)

• commit that website to this repo

my-js-project's Issues

goal a bit too ambitious

Looking at Free Code Camp, it looks like they estimate ~400+ hours to finish the frontend cert. You only have until this Friday to do it, which is 5 * 24 = 120 hours! Can you set a more manageable goal?