#89 Bunch of coding tutorials, my JS journey, Afrotech tix and the hackathon I went to
This finished my watchandcode tutorials to understand how to tie HTML and JS together. I can’t lie, it’s the boring A,B,C, stuff but it works for me as I like to have a deep understanding of things - does that make me a bad person?
Something stuck in my mind this week and it’s this:
Focus on understanding, not being able to code from scratch
I was thinking huh? Isn’t the whole point of this, to be able to make stuff.
Focus on understanding it once really well, then forget about it
P.S. Somehow I managed to break my lappy, but luckily I can use Google Chrome’s inbrowser console and debugger to do coding. Here’s the boring Todo list app I created
Prototyping
Attended the UKBT Sickle Cell Hackathon. The teams doing some cool impact projects with innovation at the heart of it. We created some cool prototypes in Marvel (which I could show it).
Perfect reminder of what you can do to validate an idea without writing a single line of code
Part two is on today so you’ll see more on their Insta
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Makers
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CodePen - Front End Developer Playground & Code Editor in the Browser
Many HTML/CSS developers are using this
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Plunker
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A friendly community where everyone can discover & create the best stuff on the web
It is like YouTube or SoundCloud, but for apps or bots or VR experiences instead of videos or songs
If you’re not 100% ready to start coding (for example, you may want to preserve space till you get a faster machine) this is a cool way to do Javascript online and you can remix anyone else’s code.
They also got this neat feature where you can highlight your code and ask the community for help!
Culture Chat
Afrotech Fest 2019 Tickets are here
Seriously, last years one was banging.
Don’t carry last. Cop a ticket here
A tech festival by and for black people of African and Caribbean heritage.