What did you complete / learn this week? #4

[Cory_Underwood]

It's that time again to share what you learned or completed this week

Most of my week was vacation, came back yesterday to helping troubleshoot a specific timing issue with AJAX, which only occurred 1 in 20 times, on Safari, only on iOS. ... I hate Safari. And Apple, for having a closed bug tracker.

Today looks to be more A/B test development unless something breaks which needs my attention.

[Edgar_S_Hurtado]

I get introduced to MySQL and now I know that there's this thing called UML to design my OO programs =P.

I've learnt also that I'm on my sweetest part of my trip as a future programer xD. I recommend the lecture of this post that @wklize shared on twitter Why Learning to Code is So Damn Hard

I almost forget, I'm studying queues, stacks and bags too. To do this implementation the book I'm reading also introduced generics and linked lists in Java . Very interesting

[Rob_Silvera]

Learned the awesome power of the while loop. Wrote a small fortune cookie simulator

[Jared_Smith]

Learned Vim, and started using it as my default editor. I feel like a real programmer now.

[Mark_P]

How is that going it looks like a step back from sublime but i only watched a 5 minute video on it.

[Mark_P]

I am still working through the javascript on codeacademy so far i learned about if/else, functions, and for loops. it seems like if i go a couple of days without doing some of it i forget a lot of it lol. I am still plugging through the odin project.

I also started reading the ruby on rails 3 tutorial by Michael Hartl. I got through installation of RVM and learning about bundler.

[Jared_Smith]

It's really not once you get it loaded with plugins and full understand the key commands. It's really much faster than sublime, The navigation commands are crazy awesome. I can literally jump to any part of the document/line/word I want with very little effort. Someone skilled with Vim will beat someone in sublime any day of the week, and now I know why.

[Jimmy_Lo]

I worked on version two of my app TwitterFitter, the tweet generator! New features:

1. beautiful bootstrap UI
2. you can now enter two twitter handles and it will combine the styles of both in its generated tweets
3. you can tweet any of the generated tweets with one button, it goes to the @FitterTweets account

Definitely go play with it if you have some time. It's pretty fun, at least I think so

Other than that, I learned how to do AJAX using JQuery.. I've only done AJAX the plain old javascript way before, and JQuery definitely makes it easier! Also, read a lot about Ruby styles and played with the Rubocop gem (I love the name). And I attended a few meetups, one on Ember, one on Sass and one on Ruby, where the speaker gave a great talk on the internals of the rails router.

[KayleighOliver]

I learned about the different types of generic collections used in C# using Pluralsight. I haven't been able to practice using any of this yet as my 12 day old baby is my first priority. Hopefully I'll be able to start using what I've learned when she's a few months old.

[Edgar_S_Hurtado]

Mum and coding? You have all my respect.

[bobderrico]

Last Saturday I met up with a person who is working on a startup tech project. He offered me an opportunity to get some experience by working with the development team. This week, I got a crash course in using tools like Slack, Asana, and Bitbucket. My first assignment was to go through the html templates in the code base, find in line styles, and move them into stylesheets. I learned how to create new branches in Git, and how to make a pull request. The project uses Sass and Angular, so I have been learning those as well. It's been quite a week!

[Jimmy_Lo]

That sounds great @bobderrico!

I just applied to 3 jobs!

[bobderrico]

Thanks. Hope all goes well. Fingers crossed!

[cjbramble]

My reviewing of Ruby basics has been going well. Finished the Learn Ruby track on teamtreehouse.com

[Ahmed]

This week I have learned how to use Mailer and install Ruby and Rails on Raspberry Pi.
- I was able to use ActionMailer from Rails and send an email to a Blog owner using Mandrill from Mail Chimp, when a comment was written a post.
- I installed Ruby and Rails on Raspberry Pi B+. The whole process was about 6-7 hours until i was able to run Rails app in the browser. Installing Ruby was too long, it was about 2 hours and 30 minutes. That was pain in the neck.

At the end I was happy to run Rails app in the browser. It feels good to something done

[Liane_Allen_]

I learned to use the eclipse IDE (it's what they use at my new job) and wrote some automation tests in java. It's like the Velveteen Rabbit - suddenly I feel real.

[waterproofheart]

I've been applying to internships. I also am finishing up a Twitter clone I started to build last week with Node. I'm hoping to update it with more functionality soon.

[Jerry_Chai]

I learned how to implement insertion sort, selection sort, bubble sort, merge sort, quick sort, and breadth first search in javascript. Courtesy of the algorithm course on Khan academy.

[Yulia]

I complete the Code Academy Ruby on Rails course.