learning tracker

Learning Tracker

Tracking my technical skills, my coding projects, my course work, and helpful resources for learning web development and computer programming to plan, document, and share my progress.

Learning logs: April 2020 | March 2020 | February 2020

Technical Skills

Skill	Level
HTML
CSS
JavaScript
Bootstrap
Responsive Web Design
Web Accessibility
Command Line
Git
GitHub
Python
PHP
WordPress Development
Agile Methodologies

Coding Projects

Portfolio Website

Completed

https://sabineemden.github.io

Design and implement a responsive website for a minimum of two platforms while adhering to validation and accessibility standards.

Skills used: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Bootstrap 4, responsive web design, web accessibility

Course project: Web Design for Everybody Capstone

GitHub repository

Coursework

Coursera

• Internet History, Technology, and Security (See course description)

• Web Design for Everybody (Basics of Web Development and Coding) Specialization (See course descriptions)

  • Introduction to HTML5
  • Introduction to CSS3
  • Interactivity with JavaScript
  • Advanced Styling with Responsive Design
  • Web Desing for Everybody Capstone

• Python for Everybody Specialization (See course descriptions)

  • Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python)
  • Python Data Structures
  • Using Python to Access Web Data
  • Using Databases with Python
  • Capstone: Retrieving, Processing, and Visualizing Data with Python

• Web Applications for Everybody Specialization (See course descriptions)

  • Building Web Applications in PHP
  • Introduction to Structured Query Language (SQL)
  • Building Database Applications in PHP
  • JavaScript, jQuery, and JSON

• Agile Development Specialization (See course descriptions)

  • Agile Meets Design Thinking
  • Running Product Design Sprints
  • Managing an Agile Team
  • Hypothesis Driven Development
  • Agile Development in Practice (Project-centered Course)

Udacity

• Shell Workshop (See course description)

• Version Control with Git (See course description)

• GitHub & Collaboration (Course discontinued)

• Writing READMEs (See course description)

Udemy

• Become a WordPress Developer by Brad Schiff (See course description)

Resources

Online Courses

• Coursera
• edX
• Udacity
• Udemy

Tutorials

• Learn to Code HTML & CSS by Shay Howe
• W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
• MDN Web Docs

Coding Challenges

• Frontend Mentor

Tools

• The W3C Markup Validation Service
• WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
• Bootstrap, CSS framework
• Git, version control system
• Visual Studio Code, text editor
• Local, local WordPress development

Documentation

• WebAIM's WCAG 2 Checklist
• GitHub
• WordPress Developer Resources

Blogs

• freeCodeCamp
• WordPress Tavern

Podcasts

• Learn to Code With Me with Laurence Bradford
• CodeNewbie with Saron Yitbarek

Books

• A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science by Barbara Oakley

Acknowledgements

This project is inspired by Syk Houdeib's Learning Tracker, by Alexander Kallaway's #100DaysOfCode Challenge, and by Shovan Chatterjee's Full Stack Web Developer Path.

I found Syk Houdeib's Learning Tracker through his post for freeCodeCamp How I switches career and got a developer job in 10 months: a true story.

Note

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