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Cent's Two Cents - Project

Cent — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 12:21:13 +0000

Hello everyone!

Cent here with the next installment.

Today I did my first project with the Odin Project! It was a relatively simple once, just focusing on the HTML lessons I've gone over in the previous days. I would've added more style to it, but I tend to think its best to just follow the project requirements. It's a project for HTML lessons not CSS lessons, so I don't want to be super focused on getting a design for this simple project down.

This project was just a simple recipe site, with specific pages for each recipe made. I'll share the code for the index page, which is just a list of recipes, and one of the recipe pages.

The link to the project is here: https://centanomics.github.io/odin-recipies/

index.html

<h1>Odin Recipes</h1>
<ul>
  <li>
    <a href="./recipes/rice-bowl.html">Rice Bowl</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="./recipes/mac-n-cheese.html">Mac and Cheese</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="./recipes/pbnj.html">Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich</a>
  </li>
</ul>

Simple enough, right? Now let's look at the rice bowl recipe page.

<h1>Cent's Rice Bowl</h1>
<img src="https://theviewfromgreatisland.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/korean-beef-rice-bowl-8506495-April-24-2020.jpg" alt="Rice bowl with rice, green beans, ground beef, and an over easy egg"/>
<h2>Description</h2>
<p>Cent's rice bowl is a cheap and easy meal that you can customize to your liking. It will usually contain rice, some form of meat, and some form of vegetables</p>
<h2>Ingredients</h2>
<ul>
  <li>Rice</li>
  <li>Ground pork</li>
  <li>Mixed Vegetables</li>
  <li>Your favorite blend of spices</li>
  <li>Cheese (optional)</li>
</ul>
<h2>Steps</h2>
<ol>
  <li>Put one serving of rice into a rice cooker</li>
  <li>While the rice is cooking start browing the ground pork, mixing in the spices while the ground pork is cooking</li>
  <li>Once the ground pork is close to done you can heat up the mixed vegetables in the microwave</li>
  <li>Once the rice is done, add your ground pork and mixed vegetables and mix it all together</li>
  <li>If you want you can add cheese as well</li>
</ol>

Just a few lists and an image for the related food item. As I mentioned, simple, stuff I already know. However, I want to do everything again, and the practice won't hurt.

Today was a bit of a shorter day as finishing the project was a good stopping point for me. Tomorrow we'll start on the CSS lessons!

Until tomorrow!

Cent's Two Cents - HTML

Cent — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 13:24:13 +0000

Hi all!

Cent here with my third day of updates!

Continuing with the Odin Project, we've starting diving into HTML. It's been nice going over this stuff again. It makes me think about how we know stuff, but might not actively think about if that makes sense. It's hard to describe that feeling I think.

Today was mainly going over the basics of html so no code to share like I hoped, however I should be doing my first project tomorrow so hopefully I can finally share something.

Also I mentioned the pomodoro timer for studying before. I found a good rhythm for myself. I'll study/code for 3 25 mins sessions, then use the last one to write the blog post. For now that works perfectly for me and I'm making an effort to study during the sessions so that always feels good.

I don't really have a desired length for these posts so I'll likely just go until I don't have anything else to say, so until next time!

Cent's Two Cents - Reading

Cent — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 02:39:28 +0000

Hi everyone,

Cent here with my second day of updates!

Continuing with the Odin Project, today was mostly about setting up and a few basics about the internet that I realized I never actually learned in school. Basically just how the internet works. I knew a lot of the terms but just never how they interacted with each other specifically.

In any case, I have everything setup and ready to start learning. While I do know a lot of this stuff already , I want to go over the material again to strengthen my knowledge.

This post is relatively short as I just did a lot of reading today, tomorrow maybe I'll share a code snippet or two as I actually get into the exercises.

Until tomorrow!

Cent's Two Cents - Start

Cent — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 16:30:38 +0000

Hello everyone!

In an attempt to be more consistent with learning, I am going to start this blog to essentially summarize what I've done in the 60-90 minutes I take out of my day to learn.

I have started The Odin Project so a lot of the early blogs will be relatively simple, as we are going over the basic of basics (in my opinion of course). I've decided to go through everything again in order to solidify my foundation before I continue finishing the side projects I've started but never finished.

Before I describe what I went over today, I would like to describe a few of my goals for myself:

Complete The Odin Project
Finish my side projects (discord bot, ultimate bravery lor)
Participate in more challenges (codepen challenges, dev.to challenges, maybe a hackathon)
Update my portfolio site which i have not updated in years (my resume is included in this step)
Find a job in web development (i work a a bank mainly using sql and unix. While nice, not really what i want to do as a career)

Now onto what I learned today.

I have started the foundations course for the odin project. As of now I have finished the introduction section, which includes how the course will work, how to interact with the community if you need help, and how to learn. I also just started the foundations section which will go over how the web works, and computer basics. I did go to a non standard college so I appreciate this overview from then.

One interested thing I've learned from these lessons is the pomodoro technique, which is essentially a 25 min study session then 5 minute break on repeat. When I studied as a student, I usually separate it by subjects, which means I could be going for only a few minutes or hours at a time. I'm going try to use this technique tomorrow so I can see if it can help my concentration.

That's all for today! Until tomorrow!