@christina695 – Hack Club Scrapbook

Fri, Oct 30

Watching our the next.js event on YouTube w Lachlan

Wed, Oct 28

Watching @lachlanjc Nextjs workshop! youtube/Xy_owni1ZVk

Sun, Oct 25

Starting my first JavaScript project, using HTML, css and script.js files

Thu, Oct 22

Zach Day! 🎂 You're the best to work with and a huge inspiration. Wishing you big, crazy year!!! Happy Birthday @zrl !!!!

Tue, Oct 20

out of curiosity, i tried out a girls who code javascript workshop. drive.google.com/file/d/1JygNaFxYsmlM9R1aXCUhxTGuLCXMoV-d/view

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Mon, Oct 19

Autumn hike in my town in Vermont

Sun, Oct 18

Building a magic 8 ball with control flow in JavaScript, but still getting error codes. . . .

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Sat, Oct 17

did @matthewvandyke08 new programming workshop and tried out some loops

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Thu, Oct 15

wrote some code using Switch statements in JavaScript and finished another level in Codacademy

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Wed, Oct 14

building some Else If statements in JavaScript and getting better every day. Kinda excited to start a project

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Mon, Oct 12

Reviewed w a friend some JavaScript concepts like if/else and variables and operators--which was great. Going to finish @fayd workshop tmrw and start my own first project soon,

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Fri, Oct 9

writing functions to build my clock; linking CSS to my JavaScript file

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Thu, Oct 8

really lovin' @fayd clock-building workshop

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Wed, Oct 7

Woo hoo! Finished the splatter paint workshop (thanks @zrl for getting me through the VSCode issues)

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Sat, Oct 3

Just enjoying the Fall in Vermont

Fri, Oct 2

Thanks JavaScript! I successfully used Ternary Operators, if/else, to tell myself to vote for Joe Biden

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Wed, Sep 30

Wrote a couple new lines of code for the first time, including function and Math.floor

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Tue, Sep 29

attempting Hack Club's Splatter paint workshop...

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Thu, Sep 24

practiced rewriting a JavaScript tutorial on building a tip calculator

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Wed, Sep 23

I spent an hour thinking about coding after Lachlan explained to me how he used JavaScript's truthy/falsy to build different features at Hack Club Bank. Something clicked, and I finally understood what a programmer does and how cool and limitless the world becomes when you know how to build w code.

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Tue, Sep 22

Did a tutorial on truthy and falsy and found it confusing.

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Sun, Sep 20

checked out the new CSS workshop by @sampoder -wow

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Sat, Sep 19

built a button in javascript by looking at how @abby did it thank you! (the top code is hers. The bottom code is my trying "if", "else" statements which totally did not work

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Fri, Sep 18

updated my blog "Learning to Code" on my website christina.cool with small step-by-step instruction on integrating VSCode with GitHub to publish a website. 1 thing i'm excited i finally nailed down was getting photos from my desktop onto my website.

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Thu, Sep 17

Practiced some really nice "if" "then" conditional statements in JavaScript at the instruction of my cat, but Codacademy is giving me an error!

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Wed, Sep 16

I'm doing a lot of fundraising this week so I didn't do much coding yesterday or today. This morning, I was applying to a Melinda Gates grant.

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Tue, Sep 15

Wrote a few more lines of code today

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Mon, Sep 14

calculated ages in dog years in JavaScript. And yesterday (altho i forgot to post 😞 and lost my streak) I figured out how to add JavaScript to my existing websites by adding a .js file to my console and adding a line to my index file that looks something like this: src="/script.js">/script

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Sat, Sep 12

finished my first JavaScript project in Codacademy. It actually took me 2 weeks, but i'm beginning to get it

Fri, Sep 11

I'm following @matthew Splatter Paint workshop. Something's not right, tho bc nothing is displaying....

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Thu, Sep 10

Got to YouTube video #6 on an Intro to JavaScript series I'd otherwise really liked, but I got totally stuck and confused. Tmrw I'm going to try something new....

Wed, Sep 9

Sent out Hack Club’s newsletter and engaged in an epic battle against hundreds of tomatoes in my garden

Tue, Sep 8

Writing a few lines in JavaScript/

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Mon, Sep 7

Moved over to Free Code Camp and it's much better

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Sun, Sep 6

Following a YouTube tutorial on JavaScript and I finished the fourth video and wrote a line of code

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Sat, Sep 5

Spent the morning watching a series of JavaScript tutorials that were very cool

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Fri, Sep 4

Love that moment when I'm 2 hours in and I see I still have 99% of the codecademy course to go......

Thu, Sep 3

Worked on lets and vars in JavaScript this morning. Here’s one of my favorite photos of the summer- w friends on Lake Champlain

Wed, Sep 2

Created a variable in JavaScript...... that's it there....

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Tue, Sep 1

JavaScript: Learning about string concatenation, properties, and methods and builtin objects. Got stuck on .ceil....

Mon, Aug 31

Starting the JavaScript workshop in Codeacademy.....

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Sun, Aug 30

This morn, I did a deep read on GitHub, mostly on the wikipedia page, trying to understand different parts of it. I also reread my own learning to code blog at christina.cool, and practicing some website stuff like adding images, converting them from png to jpg and sizing them.

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Sat, Aug 29

Joined my first ship showcase! and am learning the process of buying a domain name and connecting it up my file host

Fri, Aug 28

Practiced linking inside a page li a href="#lead" and also CSS today- I have 3 websites I'm building atm, and one I'm beginning to do collaboratively on GitHub, which is really exciting.

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Thu, Aug 27

Ran my first online Hack Club workshop yesterday w @sg69926, hosting and moderating on Zoom, while also screen-sharing the fundraising deck of my guest, Emily Ramshaw of the 19th News. Thanks to @dinaelhanan for prepping w me! This is one of Emily's slides- she has raised $9million this year, and I learned a lot listening to how she did it

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Wed, Aug 26

Later today, I'll build a presentation for my mini AMA w Emily Ramshaw on raising money. This morn, I added pages to my personal website, html and css

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Tue, Aug 25

Still spending the week building websites in HTML. Today, I played around with HMTL color picker and Google fonts, as well as padding and line height in the CSS

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Mon, Aug 24

Making improvements to my personal website and practicing html: Christina.cool

Sun, Aug 23

Friday I wrote my first line of Python in @dinaelhanan's workshop. Separately, I finished Intro to HTML course! I'm going to just build websites for a week but getting excited to move on to new things

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Sat, Aug 22

Hired a spokesperson for Hack Club

Sat, Aug 22

Learned Preview in Mac- thanks @sampoder and @lachlanjc

Fri, Aug 21

Setting up my new home office - and taking good care of the Hack Club white board!

Sun, Aug 16

Learned about semantic vs non-semantic html and practiced a few tags like section and embed Wondering if these tags are regularly used instead of divs?

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Sat, Aug 15

The only thing I made was these peach cobblers

Fri, Aug 14

Practicing forms....

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Thu, Aug 13

Made some kale salad from my garden; and finished forms tutorial in Code academy

Wed, Aug 12

Finished my first html form by adding text area; and am reading about validation now. christina.cool/forms-practice.

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Tue, Aug 11

Added a data list id to my forms at Christina.cool/forms-practice.com but couldn’t size the photo right

Mon, Aug 10

My friendship form grows w radio buttons!

Mon, Aug 10

Road tripping DC 🇺🇸 to VT with my mom. 🚗 🌅

Sat, Aug 8

Built my first form 🏄‍♀️ : christina.cool/forms-practice

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Fri, Aug 7

Trying out some Javascript. Also, I'm starting my vacation 🏖️ by reading a new book about the history of Silicon Valley and I ❤️ having time to read!

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Fri, Aug 7

Started practicing JavaScript

Thu, Aug 6

Codeacademy returns! Practice random table-making

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Tue, Aug 4

Just practicing CSS. 🤸‍♀️ Wondering if I'll hit my SOM goal of building something in Javascript......😮

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Mon, Aug 3

Having fun making websites and playing around with CSS- and also still building out my garden with more pretty flowers 💐 🌸 ☀️

Sun, Aug 2

Yay -learned how to put websites online and published 3! 1st took me 12min to open a repo, open the folder in VS Code editor, then commit and push on GitHub desktop; 2nd time took me 7 mins and 3rd time took me 2mins 47 seconds !!🔥

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Sat, Aug 1

Redoing my website and nailing down the entire flow from !DOCTYPE html to uploading ...

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Sat, Aug 1

Still getting to know VS Code editor. My cat made for a cuter photo tho.

Thu, Jul 30

Tried and failed to go entirely through the flow of creating a basic website in VSCode editor, getting it onto GitHub and then onto my website. Ended up watching some beginner VSCode/GitHub videos but still pretty stuck. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk12ELJ9Bww

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Tue, Jul 28

Practiced getting code onto website

Fri, Jul 24

Finished my first ever garden

Tue, Jul 21

Yay💃 built a beautiful simple website & got some amazing CSS lessons from @lachlanjc

Mon, Jul 20

Jumped off this waterfall in Warren, VT yesterday and also .......practiced forms in html

Sun, Jul 19

updated my Learning to Code blog on christina.cool w my latest thinking on the beginners' journey to coding

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Sat, Jul 18

Learned some new CSS like “letter-spacing” and “padding”. Also, went to see an outdoor Dr. Seuss play in a Vermont field.

Fri, Jul 17

Worked on rowspans this morning on my website. Couldn’t figure out how to span columns, tho. Argh!!

Fri, Jul 17

Building a schedule into my website

Thu, Jul 16

Figured out how to create and link my CSS file in VS Code editor- thanks Hack Club!!!

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Tue, Jul 14

still working on tables in VSCode... i did style them a little!

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Tue, Jul 14

Reading about Visual Studio Code and how to create a CSS

Sun, Jul 12

Building my first table in html w my new vs code editor

Sat, Jul 11

Just gettin so technical.....now using VS Code Editor and GitHub Desktop. W tutorials from @zrl & @lachlanjc and from the kitchen @msw thank you!

Sat, Jul 11

Working in html on file inputs. Definitely need to figure out link shortener for this photo!

Thu, Jul 9

Produced an AMA today with the Hack Club team and super host @rishi

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Wed, Jul 8

trying out the tutorial on inputs in html in codeacademy. and wondering if this is worth learning, or i should skip over it to the Javascript tutorials....

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Tue, Jul 7

Coded w @dinaelhanan and some #orpheus-legion members; added shadows and padding to my website; practiced CSS

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Mon, Jul 6

Finally, added images and links for My Books (a page on my personal website)

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Sun, Jul 5

Tiny "make": I shipped my website on #ship and I learned object-fit in CSS

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Sat, Jul 4

Styled my CSS - using the inspect button and the app colorslurp for the first time!

Fri, Jul 3

worked on divs in the CSS of a website I'm playing around with

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Sun, Jun 21

Learned how to upload one of my photos into my CSS, and make it a background image on my website with text over it

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Sat, Jun 20

My first scrapbook post ! Spent the morning playing w my CSS and my summer goal is to build something w JavaScript