These two were some of the first websites I ever made with just guidelines instead of explicit instructions. The guidelines (by my teacher, Susan Metoxen) included most of the photos and made sure we incorporated the things we had learned. As one of our first projects, it only contains the index page.
This website was early in my schooling, but this pets4everyone website is one of the ones I'm the most proud of. Other than making sure we incorporated various forms of bootstrap, we mostly had free reign on how to code this website. This was one of the first times I felt like I combined my knowledge from multiple classes to make something new. Figuring out how to successfully combine knowledge from multiple classes after hours of work felt extraordinarily satisfying- and this project and triumph remains one of my most important experiences with coding to date.
The second website I did much further along in my schooling, during my client side 2 class. This was interesting because bootstrap, which had seemed so complicated to me when I first learned it, is now something I can utilize with ease.
These were both done during my client side 1 class (Taught by Darren Pearson). We were given an example of the final product, and had to reverse engineer it (without access to the code of course). We were also given an an additional optional challenge. For the bingo card it was to not only populate the bingo card, but also call bingo balls and have them change the color of the box if the called number was on the card. For the slot machine it was to have all three instead of just one. I quite enjoyed these challenges, and found them exciting to implement.
The first website, Sabotage, was the final of my Client Side 2 class (Taught by Darren Pearson). We worked on it during class for almost two months, and then as our project were told to shorten the code we had worked on (by combining duplicate methods and utilizing variables) as well as make some cosmetic adjustments. Optimizing code someone else had written was an interesting and valuable experience.
The second website was one of the first times I decided to code using javascript outside of my classwork. I followed a YouTube tutorial by Chris Courses and learned many concepts, such as how to use a canvas and how to use sprite sheets, which I found absolutely fascinating. I've always enjoyed video games, and learning how many of my old online favorites likely work behind the scenes has been a great joy. I plan to do more of his tutorials in the future.
This project was done during my Web Design class (Taught by Susan Metoxen). Though I enjoy the more complex coding found with hard HTML and JavaScript, it was interesting to learn how a lot of business and simple websites are made as well as some more design forward concepts, and I will continue my learning in this area.