In May 2014, I participated in the Front-end Web Development course from Thinkful. In this course you
- Build eight sleek and interactive websites with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery and Git.
- Learn web development and apply UX design principles to create user-friendly products.
The 8 websites were:
- HTML Resume - a basic resume page focusing on the HTML structure.
- Google Clone - the google search page, focusing on using CSS to reproduce a given design.
- Small Business Landing Page - I created a landing page for the TestStack open source organisation.
- Shopping List - an app to add and remove items from a shopping list, focusing on interactivity with jQuery.
- Hot or Cold - a game where the user has to guess a number and is told if they are 'hot' or 'cold.' Focuses on JavaScript functions.
- Quiz - create a quiz game that leads the user through a series of questions, focusing on JavaScript data with JSON and arrays.
- API Hack - build an app that utilises JSON APIs. I built a Currency Converter that pulled currencies and live exchange rates from https://openexchangerates.org/.
- Portfolio - a website to display all of the Thinkful projects.
In addition the following projects were also created:
- Street Fighter - using jQuery to create animations for the Street Fighter game.
- FizzBuzz - use JavaScript to create the Fizz Buzz game.
- Stack Overflow Reputation Builder. Focuses on building an app using external JSON APIs, such as the one from Stack Overflow.