Hello again,
This week was moderately exciting, I have made some major head way on the road to developing apps via Phone Gap as well as website design. I’ve come to the conclusion that I must find the time to start my own webpage. I have a few side projects for android that are all still in the making admittedly, but the trend seems to be that if you want to publish apps you need a website. So, it has been a pleasure to learn HTML5 and CSS this past week, even if it was a lot of time spent hammering away at simple syntax.
As luck would have it, I found a great website via mozilla’s website design page called code academy; which had a great web fundamentals learning track. It was not only exciting to learn the new material but code academy makes it rewarding as well with a series of badges you can earn across several learning tracks. I have just begun to work through javascript which seems to be going very smoothly due to its vast similarities to java languages. Its almost frustrating that code academy’s site forces you to work through so many examples but I suppose practice makes progress and helps to memorize the syntax.
I am hoping to complete the javascript track mid week a begin working on the actual project as soon as tomorrow. We are expecting to get the display information for our html based app soon, so our class should have some page layouts ideas to discuss and decide on. I imagine after doing code academy‘s web fundamentals track that the informative pages of this app will be the smaller challenge of the year. With any luck we will push through simple informative pages quickly and begin designing more interactive features like games and possibly a reusable framework that can easily update new content without extensive programming knowledge.
Til next time.
Jason
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