The first weeks of Class

The night before the first day of class, wasn't easy. It's been many years since I've taken a class. It was my first online class utilizing these new technologies like zoom, so I was little nervous about it. It took me a while to fall asleep that night. It was like starting at a new job, full of new people, not knowing what to expect.

In the morning, it was finally time to go online and face my fears. It wasn't that bad after all, a short introduction with one of the instructors, then a full presentation with Bobby Davis, followed by a class on how to use Visual Studio Code. It might not be the most advanced code software but for HTML and JavaScript, it was going to be perfect. We were going to be able to change our HTML code and see those changes automatically refreshed in our live server.

During the whole 12 weeks of the cohort, we were going to be trained in HTML, JavaScript, C# and MVC. Also on how to use Github, Bootstrap, Netlify and Heroku, among many other available tools.  As part of the cohort, we were going to create a Portfolio using a chosen template, that showcases the many challenges and projects that we were about to create, with the porpoise of showing prospective employers about our coding skills.

The first week we had HTML classes,  we also selected our portfolio template and started working on it to prepare it to showcase our upcoming projects.

The second week was training on JavaScript and coding our first challenges:

Hundo, a program that displays incremental numbers from 0 to 100.

TacoCat, a program that receives a string and use a function to check if it is a palindrome.

FizzBuzz, a program that takes two numbers and prints the numbers. But for multiples of three print “Fizz” instead of the number and for the multiples of five print “Buzz”. For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print “FizzBuzz”.

SuperDogs, a program that displays stats from events, using different functions to save, read, edit and delete data on local storage.