It’s been a little more than 2 weeks since I started on this 100 days of code journey. Currently I am on day 20, consistency has been pretty good! In that time I have completed 1 JavaScript project which I had partially started before, and 16 projects from the free code camp vanilla JavaScript series, plus 2 more from freecodecamp.org. In this post I’ll summarize what I learned so far after completing these projects and the challenges I have faced.
My First Completed JavaScript Project
The first JavaScript project I have completed on this journey is the Domestika project, which I had started on my own before. The project we created a memory card game which was in my opinion very good for learning, it covers a lot of concepts to get you more comfortable with JavaScript without being overlay complicated. Since this is a paid course project; I will not share the completed code. If you are interested, you can check out the course here. [*please note that the course audio is in Spanish but it has subtitles and all comments are translated]
The Next Batch of Projects
The next set of projects I completed are from the Free Code Camp videos which I talked about working on in my first post. The first few projects were straight forward and simple. I did face some challenges though. The videos go pretty quickly so I need to pause and go back a lot, so I can catch up with writing the code (shortcuts have been really handy here). Sometimes, I think the CSS files are not the same as what is being used in the video. I was having an issue in one of the projects, then I simply copied the CSS file from the finished one and everything worked as expected.
So far I have created:
- webpages with navigations
- a counter
- reviews page
- FAQ page
- video page
- a count down timer
- lorem ipsum generator
- image gallery scroll
- Rock Paper Scissors game
- Simon Game
If you are interested in seeing all my code , I try to check in regularly to GitHub, all the projects are also available in the video I mentioned in my first post about the challenge.
Continuing The Challenge
So far I’m pretty happy with my progress. The projects haven’t been extremely complicated, except the grocery list & the Simon game was a bit tricky. which were the more recent ones I have completed. Those have probably been the most complicated and involved one.
Free Code Camp has additional projects that look really interesting and I think after I complete the series I’m working on I will continue with those. Eventually during this 100 days it would be fun to create a JavaScript game, so I’ll plan to do that and share my project :).
Right now, the dilemma I’m facing is; how far do I go with JavaScript until I start with React? I can keep coding projects in JS forever and never be done, but at some point I need to start working with React since that is the aim of my doing the challenge. I think maybe give myself 1 month get to comfortable enough with JS and then move on to React?
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