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Learn Markdown with Scrimba 🧠

Hil — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 22:46:34 +0000

Intro

Currently taking the course Learn Markdown on Scrimba.com.

Playground 1

Hi, it's really a pleasure to meet you.

Chuck, Chuck, its' your cousin. Your cousin Marvin Berry, you know that new sound you're lookin for, well listen to this.

I noticed you band is on the roster for dance auditions after school today. Why even bother Mcfly, you haven't got a chance, you're too much like your own man. ~~No McFly ever amounted to anything in the history of Hill Valley~~.

Playground 2

"Okay, okay you guys, oh ha ha ha very funny. Hey you guys are being real mature. Well, I guess that's everything. Quiet down, I'm sure the car is fine. Don't worry, I'll take care of the lightning, you take care of your pop. By the way, what happened today, did he ask her out? Let's get him."

Lists

Some characters

Doc
McFly
Biff

Some modes of transportation

Delorean
Covered wagon
Hoverboard

Code Blocks

const martyMcfly {
    instrument: 'guitar';
    band: 'The Pinheads';
    hobby: 'skateboarding';
    girlfriend: 'Jennifer Parker';
    bestfriend: 'Doc';
}

Images

The Franchise

Movie	Year
Back to the Future	1985
Back to the Future Part II	1989
Back the Future Part III	1990

References

Scrimba's 2021 #JavaScriptmas

Hil — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 16:43:18 +0000

Creating this post to keep track of my #JavaScriptmas submissions!

My Solutions

Day 1: Countdown to Christmas
Day 2: Toggle Christmas Theme
Day 3: Don't Scare Your Relatives
Day 4: Shopping Checklist
Day 5: Christmas Card Writer
Day 6: Text Christmassifier
Day 7: Play a Christmas Song
Day 8: Bell Animator
Day 9: Turn on the Decorations
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Scrimba's #JavaScriptmas

Hil — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 19:12:08 +0000

I recently completed a 24-week coding boot camp, upon the heels of which this challenge arrived. Thinking back to where I started and ended, what an amazing journey it was, going from stressing about refactoring simple HTML code to building a full-stack React app with functioning APIs and databases. I stumbled upon Scrimba's #JavaScriptmas challenge and decided to give it a shot. It gives me a chance to dust off some JavaScript skills and possibly win a subscription or cold hard cash. My solutions are at the end of this article.

I found with each challenge that I became more comfortable thinking through the required logic of each problem. This helped speed up the time to solve each one. But, I still found myself googling quite a bit and referring to MDN docs, w3schools, and StackOverflow. The world of JavaScript is a wild west to me and there are SO many different ways to accomplish something.

The most difficult challenge for me was Day 8 The Rolling Dice. It was also the challenge I procrastinated the worst, the second worst being Day 15 Carousel. These took me several days. Was this a surprise? Not really. DOM manipulation had been one of the more challenging concepts for me to grasp during boot camp. I struggled with The Rolling Dice while attempting to do it first with vanilla JavaScript and CSS. Then, a few days ago I switched over to trying the CSS Framework with which I am most familiar - Bootstrap. After some trial and error, I finally found the right combination of rows, columns, and utilities to place the dots accordingly as a dice face. At this point, there is still a spacing oddity at the bottom of the dice face which becomes more noticeable to me when rolling a two or three. But as they say, "Perfection is the enemy of Done" - something I have needed to remind myself of frequently - and right now, I'm settling on this Done but Basic Rolling Dice.

Overall, I really enjoyed this challenge - so much so that I signed up for an annual Scrimba Pro membership! Their learning platform and built-in IDE resonated with me. I am very much looking forward to their many course offerings as a I continue building up my coding skills. If you've made it this far, thanks for reading! I hope you have a happy healthy holiday season and new year.