LLabrie
FreeCodeCamp is a great website that lets you learn coding, among many other things. In between lessons it provides challenges to test what you’ve learned. At the end of the Bootstrap lesson are two challenges, the first of which is to create a tribute page in Codepen.io. When I got to this part, my Twitter […]
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A never ending love…
“What can I say about my jewelry? It speaks for itself. To me, style is to be simple.”
I have just successfully completed FreeCodeCamp’s Front End Development Program as of October 19, 2016! You can visit my profile at https://www.freecodecamp.com/llabrie to view projects and challenges. I have to give credit to all the you tube videos and Coding Tutorials 360 given by Dylan Israel that included a lot of jQuery and JavaScript training. It was very enlightening!
I always look forward to Quincy Larson’s emails keeping me up to date and informed. Quincy started up an open source community called Free Code Camp back in 2014. I have included a link to his posts on Medium here.
So what’s next on freeCodeCamp? Really looking forward to the data visualization challenges coming soon including Sass and React! Always Be Ccoding!
As a freelance designer it is important for me to continue to strengthen the skills I have developed over the past 20 years. My first website I created was a general portfolio of work highlighting the work I have done in Jewelry & Giftware, Painting & Illustration.
The jewelry I create whether it is for a company, individual client or gallery continues to give me great joy!
We all have to start somewhere. My journey to code began when I found myself freelancing again after 20 years working as a fulltime designer for a manufacturer of giftware and jewelry. No matter how much I knew I was a victim of burn out and needed a change the uncertainty left me with an even greater feeling of “ubiquitous nervousness” to quote a zen master.
The first book I read regarding code was HTML&CSS by Jon Duckett. I never expected to enjoy this book as much as I have, and still holds up as great reference material. It’s really beautifully laid out and easy to read. I have practiced with many online tutorials and worked with templates using Dreamweaver and Bootstrap and most recently became a participant in Tech Force RI. I soon went onto receive certification in HTML5 and CSS3 New and Advanced Features. I joined meet-ups to become part of the community of coders and from there joined FreeCodeCamp.
Part of the challenge in studying Front-End Web Development in FreeCodeCamp is to create projects which I write and design using the CodePen text editor. So far I have created a tribute page to Chogyäm Trungpa, a portfolio site with thumbnail placeholder images, and a random quote machine. I hope to develop a strong portfolio of work during my current study of JavaScript. Patience is everything!
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