Making things look pretty

This week was geared towards design. I purchased a web course and quickly jumped in with both feet. Coupled with classes on Team Treehouse I spent 38 hours in Fireworks and learning HTML & CSS... hours well spent. I'm trying to get as many things done before my week long trip to New York next week.

Here's a screenshot of the site I'm working on.

Safe weekend, y'all.

Learn Ruby The Hard Way

Sunday was a challenge. Finished two more chapters in Learning to Program, a few HTML and CSS basics on Team Treehouse. I also cracked open Learn Ruby The Hard Way for the first time and made it to Ex 4. I will say I finished stronger than I started. Things weren't 'clicking' for me early on, but after a long walk and some fresh air it started to become a little clearer.

Here's the breakdown of my hours. 7 hours total for Sunday.

Learn to Program

Decided to crack open Chris Pine's Learn to Program. I made it all the way to Chapter 6 - More About Methods stopping at 6.2 for the night.

I'm pretty stoked at my progress so far. Loving the coding challenges at the end of the sections. 

The task: Make a program that asks for the first, middle and last names individually and then add the lengths together.

This is what I came up with...

And here's the result...

I started on this big adventure Tuesday evening on August 6th ready for a challenge and I'm getting one... that's for sure. 

Week 1 Study Hours:

Tuesday: 5:00

Wednesday: 7:33

Thursday: 4:36

Friday: 7:29

Saturday: 4:55

= 29 hours 36 minutes

Ruby for Beginners V2

Started the Friday on Team Treehouse with Website Basics and Aesthetic Foundations. I moved on to correct something on my One Month Rails app then back to Tree House for HTML Basics and Ruby Rapids. I'm on the fence with Tree House... the quizzes at the end seem pointless.

After a little research on Reddit I came across this post which introduced me to Ruby for Beginners V2 by LearnStreet and I'm totally digging it. I was up until the wee hours of the morning working my way through the lessons and got stuck on Lesson 5: Method Definition - 13: Method withdraw.

13: Method withdraw We know now how to access the instance variable, but how do we change the value? This is where variable assignment comes in. Can you now implement the withdraw! method on account object, which takes one parameter amount and reduces the balance by the specified amount? After defining the method, go ahead and withdraw 100 dollars from the account and check the balance.

So that's where I'm starting today. Hopefully I can get over my little roadblock and complete the lesson today. Laissez les bon temps rouler, y'all.

Friday Study Hours: 7:30

The Start

August 6th. Day #1 of my Ruby on Rails adventure. I signed up for One Month Rails and completed five hours of training that night. Even though most of the things discussed in the videos flew over my head I logged back in the next day and completed seven hours and thirty-three minutes.

Google was my friend. Errors popped up the screen, but I pushed through.

I finished Thursday with four hours and thirty-seven minutes of watching, typing, and banging my head against my desk. I felt accomplished. This was only the start of something fantastical.

Total hours so far: 17:10

I'm getting an early start today. I signed up for Team Treehouse. First up... the basics.