Read the first 5 chapters of CODE, recommended to me by @zfogg
I keep notes in notepad as I learn, and tonight I cleaned them up and put them on a webpage, so I could play around w github pages. christinaasquith.com/practicepages I also fixed the dns configuration for my domain name by adding custom resource records, which i’m pretty happy about bc DNS on google domains is pretty confusing for beginners
used GitHub pages to open a repo and clone it into VSCode…usually I start in VSCode and then use the command line to push to GitHub. It was cool to just figure out a new way on my own that’s actually easier
Built a birthday party invite website, and used GitHub and Google domains to configure the dns and get it online
The Charlotte Bridge, a substack which I shipped last month w some journalism friends, now has raised more than $4k on Hack Club bank, and has 1k subscribers in my small town (pop. 3,700). Huge appreciation 👏 to everyone helping me improve the landing page design @garytou2@bellesee1212@fayezmohammed23@ella
building my first bots for slack - thanks @sampoder
building my first bot for Slack
Followed @adisonlampert workshop, and built a word cloud generator, and then turned it into a birthday gift website for a family friend! lilymaeis12.com
built a website for someone in my town, used terminal to create a repo and push changes to github, and got it up online w github pages. hoping to get them on hack club bank, too.
was checking out the IBM selector typewriter… in the 70s the Soviets installed a tiny circuits invisible to the eye into these typewriters inside the US embassy in Moscow, that sent data typed via radio waves to a listening post. Considered one of the earliest hacks
watched 30 mins of Harvard’s free CS50 intro to CS class- just finished explaining binary numbers and is now giving an overview of basic programming, including the concepts of if/then, loops, variables and functions
Read a chapter about the history of the marketplace for bug bounties, which secretly (and suspiciously) started with the US government in the ’90s, and includes a more recent exploit of HP printers
Reading a new book about cybersecurity by a NYT journalist, and its explaining the Russian hacks of Ukraine a few years ago
Practiced writing loops in javascript
Really cool conversation about cryptocurrency with @zfogg and Lightening Lab’s founder Elizabeth Stark-- she’s coming to Hack Club as our next AMA to chat about bitcoin!
Started Harvard’s CS50 free Intro to Computer Science course, and am an hour into a lecture explaining the basics of binary numbers
Really fun to run my first Clubhouse conversation about Hack Club Bank yesterday with @zrl - and Hack Clubber @tmb hopped into the conversation, which was super cool
Cloned a repo for a notetaking app I found on GitHub, modified it and then created a new repo on GitHub. Got a little stuck in the terminal around how to add files. Good thing I sit next to @JulieGauthier now so i can ask her today…..
Studied the code of a friend on GitHub, and tried to learn from how she built something, and then try it out myself. ran an NPM install for the first time
This morning I tried to build a to-do list in JavaScript …. Top of my list of things to do was to go skiing. I DID go skiing (w @matthew!) but I didn’t totally figure out how to code a to do list
building a javascript project of my own (not from a tutorial…)
discovered font-awesome and chose a cute paw button
trying to figure out .addEventListener by building this to-do list in javascript, and also creating branches in github each time. . . . just cause I can!
updated my learn to code blog at christina.cool, added links my favorite tutorials, fixed all the dead links and did a copy edit
Kinda finally nailed how to make a commit on the command line, and also created my first branch
Learning loops!
halfway through @dwivedihari987 password generator workshop... any suggestions on the simplest way to center align it?
cloned my github repo using command line for the first time; and watched this video tutorial
building another website with the confetti generator library/ easter egg because it's just fun to make my first JavaScript project, and see it actually work
successfully added an easter egg from Konami to my spin the wheel by adding the confetti library
Playing around w workshops-- I tried to add an easter egg from @fayd's konami workshop to the spinning wheel website i built w @dwivedihari987's workshop..... it's not working... something is stuck w adding the confetti generator. ... but the fact that I'm even as far along to be adding libraries in js is cool to me!
added Rambo :gun-right: to @fayd's Konami workshop
reviewing some javascript basics and practicing them
Started this awesome thing....
yesterday i made a website that you could click to change the color. Today, I added an image, and tried to make it so I could click to change the image but got stuck..
building more websites using simple js
Applying querySelectors and eventListeners in javascript to a practice website so to change the color of a box--it worked!
I’ve done a bunch of projects and workshops and now I’m going back and reading up on javascript basics. Ive made it to arrow functions. It’s definitely starting to all come together (this is Zell Leik tutorials)
Really liking Zell's Liew's javascript "road map" and after reading his newsletter, I'm going to sign up for the tutorials
made my first basic interactive website from scratch and (finally) used terminal to upload my git
finished the stopwatch workshop, ⏰ and am adding divs so I can practice document.querySelector in javascript
Reading up on strings and functions in javascript in the Flatiron's free introduction class
typed some javascript into the console to explore diff data types
decided I’m going to spend a week going back over the js projects I’ve built (a stopwatch and a memory game) and just tinker w them until I finally understand what queryselector is ..... I didn’t code today but i did go sledding w a friend yesterday
Not a bad first year on GitHub.... this morning I practiced adding a password field to one of my websites
Last sunset of 2020 over the NY Adirondacks. Happy New Year!
Discovered signs of a bear in my woods
I'd been hearing a lot about Bootstrap here (@bellesee1212) so I checked it out this morning. i've never built a website using a framework before. looks amazing and I can't wait to try it
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Javascript: just reviewing variables and strings again, before I move onto function and eventlisteners
worked on javascript and did some debugging w assistance from @fayd
finally debugged my spinning wheel (an extra space was causing all my design issues!!!) and it's finished! Thanks @dwivedihari987 - i loved this workshop
Trying to finish Spin the Wheel workshop by @dwivedihari987 but something's gone horribly wrong . . .. . 😱 🔲
started @dwivedihari987 workshop: spin the wheel; about one-third through
Built this in like 40 minutes, including using inspect to copy code and manipulate it. Managed to get the Hack Club colors and the banner; and change the font, and photo size. Now I have to figure out how to collect data in a form
Still working on the data.json file with Theo
Cloned a github repo, ran an npm install, and then modified the file in data.json- first time for all 3!
added a feature to a website i'm building that changes color of the text. I copied this code from W3 and I'm confused about putting javascript in my html.index, but it does work
regularly using inspect/console now to check why my code isn't working. Also, successfully added a second question to my website w an auto-generated answer, but the answer is displaying in the wrong place....
Connected a form I made in HTML to my javascript file
worked w @tmb to download a json file he'd created from GitHub, and write some of my own javascript. (Separately, last night I made pumpkin manicotti from scratch to welcome friends who just moved to my town.)
Wrote some basic functions in JavaScript. Also, followed up on our AMA by writing a long email to Gwynne Shotwell about Hack Club
Played around w GitHub. Taught someone to open an account and make a first commit for a website she built in replit ash-birthday.mariannafairwea.repl.co
practiced some CSS this morning, including the box model, with padding, height, width and ids
here's the first of probably a bunch of simple websites I'll be shipping in coming days as I practice some basics of css and github
trying to build my first project w JS, but realized i had to go back to review some css basics like divs and classes which was great. But then got stuck creating a repo on GitHub and things got crazy 🤯
Ran a coding club for two 11 year olds in my town, and helped them build their first websites in html and css
spent some time looking at a friend's code and tried to figure out how Vercel worked. . . also met Gwynne Shotwell!
just practicing writing JS code right now
practiced === ternary operators, truthy falsy, || and some other javascript conditionals but I haven't applied them yet in a project so that's next
Created a GitHub repo and pushed my code; got my latest site online, and my first interactive site with javascript christina.cool/runners (it doesn't do anything right now)
Starting my first JavaScript project, using HTML, css and script.js files Zach Day! 🎂 You're the best to work with and a huge inspiration. Wishing you big, crazy year!!! Happy Birthday @zrl !!!!
Building a magic 8 ball with control flow in JavaScript, but still getting error codes. . . .
did @matthewvandyke08 new programming workshop and tried out some loops
wrote some code using Switch statements in JavaScript and finished another level in Codacademy
building some Else If statements in JavaScript and getting better every day. Kinda excited to start a project
Reviewed w a friend some JavaScript concepts like if/else and variables and operators--which was great. Going to finish @fayd workshop tmrw and start my own first project soon,
writing functions to build my clock; linking CSS to my JavaScript file
Woo hoo! Finished the splatter paint workshop (thanks @zrl for getting me through the VSCode issues)
Just enjoying the Fall in Vermont
Thanks JavaScript! I successfully used Ternary Operators, if/else, to tell myself to vote for Joe Biden
Wrote a couple new lines of code for the first time, including function and Math.floor
attempting Hack Club's Splatter paint workshop...
practiced rewriting a JavaScript tutorial on building a tip calculator
I spent an hour thinking about coding after Lachlan explained to me how he used JavaScript's truthy/falsy to build different features at Hack Club Bank. Something clicked, and I finally understood what a programmer does and how cool and limitless the world becomes when you know how to build w code.
Did a tutorial on truthy and falsy and found it confusing.
checked out the new CSS workshop by @sampoder -wow
built a button in javascript by looking at how @abby did it thank you! (the top code is hers. The bottom code is my trying "if", "else" statements which totally did not work
updated my blog "Learning to Code" on my website christina.cool with small step-by-step instruction on integrating VSCode with GitHub to publish a website. 1 thing i'm excited i finally nailed down was getting photos from my desktop onto my website.
Practiced some really nice "if" "then" conditional statements in JavaScript at the instruction of my cat, but Codacademy is giving me an error!
I'm doing a lot of fundraising this week so I didn't do much coding yesterday or today. This morning, I was applying to a Melinda Gates grant.
Wrote a few more lines of code today
calculated ages in dog years in JavaScript. And yesterday (altho i forgot to post 😞 and lost my streak) I figured out how to add JavaScript to my existing websites by adding a .js file to my console and adding a line to my index file that looks something like this: src="/script.js">/script
finished my first JavaScript project in Codacademy. It actually took me 2 weeks, but i'm beginning to get it
I'm following @matthew Splatter Paint workshop. Something's not right, tho bc nothing is displaying....
Got to YouTube video #6 on an Intro to JavaScript series I'd otherwise really liked, but I got totally stuck and confused. Tmrw I'm going to try something new....
Sent out Hack Club’s newsletter and engaged in an epic battle against hundreds of tomatoes in my garden
Writing a few lines in JavaScript/
Moved over to Free Code Camp and it's much better
Following a YouTube tutorial on JavaScript and I finished the fourth video and wrote a line of code
Spent the morning watching a series of JavaScript tutorials that were very cool
Love that moment when I'm 2 hours in and I see I still have 99% of the codecademy course to go......
Worked on lets and vars in JavaScript this morning. Here’s one of my favorite photos of the summer- w friends on Lake Champlain
Created a variable in JavaScript...... that's it there....
JavaScript: Learning about string concatenation, properties, and methods and builtin objects. Got stuck on .ceil....
Starting the JavaScript workshop in Codeacademy.....
This morn, I did a deep read on GitHub, mostly on the wikipedia page, trying to understand different parts of it. I also reread my own learning to code blog at christina.cool, and practicing some website stuff like adding images, converting them from png to jpg and sizing them.
Joined my first ship showcase! and am learning the process of buying a domain name and connecting it up my file host
Practiced linking inside a page lia href="#lead" and also CSS today- I have 3 websites I'm building atm, and one I'm beginning to do collaboratively on GitHub, which is really exciting.
Ran my first online Hack Club workshop yesterday w @sg69926, hosting and moderating on Zoom, while also screen-sharing the fundraising deck of my guest, Emily Ramshaw of the 19th News. Thanks to @dinaelhanan for prepping w me! This is one of Emily's slides- she has raised $9million this year, and I learned a lot listening to how she did it
Later today, I'll build a presentation for my mini AMA w Emily Ramshaw on raising money. This morn, I added pages to my personal website, html and css
Still spending the week building websites in HTML. Today, I played around with HMTL color picker and Google fonts, as well as padding and line height in the CSS
Making improvements to my personal website and practicing html: Christina.cool Friday I wrote my first line of Python in @dinaelhanan's workshop. Separately, I finished Intro to HTML course! I'm going to just build websites for a week but getting excited to move on to new things
Hired a spokesperson for Hack Club Learned Preview in Mac- thanks @sampoder and @lachlanjc
Setting up my new home office - and taking good care of the Hack Club white board!
Learned about semantic vs non-semantic html and practiced a few tags like section and embed Wondering if these tags are regularly used instead of divs?
The only thing I made was these peach cobblers
Practicing forms....
Made some kale salad from my garden; and finished forms tutorial in Code academy
Finished my first html form by adding text area; and am reading about validation now. christina.cool/forms-practice.
Added a data list id to my forms at Christina.cool/forms-practice.com but couldn’t size the photo rightMy friendship form grows w radio buttons!
Trying out some Javascript. Also, I'm starting my vacation 🏖️ by reading a new book about the history of Silicon Valley and I ❤️ having time to read!
Started practicing JavaScript
Codeacademy returns! Practice random table-making
Just practicing CSS. 🤸♀️ Wondering if I'll hit my SOM goal of building something in Javascript......😮
Having fun making websites and playing around with CSS- and also still building out my garden with more pretty flowers 💐 🌸 ☀️ Yay -learned how to put websites online and published 3! 1st took me 12min to open a repo, open the folder in VS Code editor, then commit and push on GitHub desktop; 2nd time took me 7 mins and 3rd time took me 2mins 47 seconds !!🔥
Redoing my website and nailing down the entire flow from !DOCTYPE html to uploading ...
Still getting to know VS Code editor. My cat made for a cuter photo tho.
Tried and failed to go entirely through the flow of creating a basic website in VSCode editor, getting it onto GitHub and then onto my website. Ended up watching some beginner VSCode/GitHub videos but still pretty stuck. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk12ELJ9Bww
Practiced getting code onto website
Finished my first ever garden
Yay💃 built a beautiful simple website & got some amazing CSS lessons from @lachlanjcJumped off this waterfall in Warren, VT yesterday and also .......practiced forms in html
updated my Learning to Code blog on christina.cool w my latest thinking on the beginners' journey to coding
Learned some new CSS like “letter-spacing” and “padding”. Also, went to see an outdoor Dr. Seuss play in a Vermont field.
Worked on rowspans this morning on my website. Couldn’t figure out how to span columns, tho. Argh!! Building a schedule into my website Figured out how to create and link my CSS file in VS Code editor- thanks Hack Club!!!
still working on tables in VSCode... i did style them a little!
Reading about Visual Studio Code and how to create a CSS
Building my first table in html w my new vs code editor
Just gettin so technical.....now using VS Code Editor and GitHub Desktop. W tutorials from @zrl & @lachlanjc and from the kitchen @msw thank you! Working in html on file inputs. Definitely need to figure out link shortener for this photo! Produced an AMA today with the Hack Club team and super host @rishi
trying out the tutorial on inputs in html in codeacademy. and wondering if this is worth learning, or i should skip over it to the Javascript tutorials....
Coded w @dinaelhanan and some #orpheus-legion members; added shadows and padding to my website; practiced CSS
Finally, added images and links for My Books (a page on my personal website)
Tiny "make": I shipped my website on #ship and I learned object-fit in CSS
Styled my CSS - using the inspect button and the app colorslurp for the first time! worked on divs in the CSS of a website I'm playing around with
Learned how to upload one of my photos into my CSS, and make it a background image on my website with text over it
My first scrapbook post ! Spent the morning playing w my CSS and my summer goal is to build something w JavaScript
