Calendar and Forms Calendar I carried on work with the Calendar last night and all of this morning, and still it eluded me, however I knew I was getting closer and closer! I had the calendar rendering yesterday, and this morning I got it to show data. Then I got it to show data that … Continue reading Day 51 at Makers Academy →

GitClub Continued Improved Form This morning I made a few improvements to what I had done last night. I found that as this was a React form rather than a HTML form, the required attribute didn't work, which meant forms could be submitted even if they aren't filled in. To fix this, I set all … Continue reading Day 50 at Makers Academy →

GitClub Carrying on with GitClub Today we carried on with our final project of course. Not loads to talk about today, a bit more of the same really. We finalised our User feature by adding the ability to sign in. This was pretty much the same as in Acebook so I won't go into loads … Continue reading Day 49 at Makers Academy →

Beginning of the End Final Project This week we started our final project. We decided what we were going to be working on and what teams we would be in on Friday, and we planned out some of the basics, but today was the official start. That means that in less than 10 days I … Continue reading Day 48 at Makers Academy →

Finishing Algorithms Frequency Yesterday we started looking at writing an algorithm to find the most common elements of an array. It was easy enough to write code to find the most common element, however if two elements were both the most common, it would only show one. To fix this I wrote the following code: … Continue reading Day 47 at Makers Academy →

Writing More Algorithms Increasing Performance I mentioned yesterday about how I wanted to move to array lists to make it faster to run our tests. I got it working last night and wanted to measure this this morning. So I added some system print outs to the code to track what was going on. At … Continue reading Day 46 at Makers Academy →

More Algorithm Work Testing Efficiency Last night after I finished my blog, I wasn't really satisfied with where I had left the project, so I decided to tackle the challenge of plotting a graph from my data. I had just got to the point where I could store and retrieve my array information from the … Continue reading Day 45 at Makers Academy →

Algorithms What is an Algorithm This week we are focussing on complex algorithms. Algorithms are a key part of everyday life, not just in terms of computing, but everything we do. The simplest definition of an algorithm is: “A set of steps to accomplish a task” So really lots of things could be classed as … Continue reading Day 44 at Makers Academy →

Finishing Acebook User Interface Today we put the finishing touches on our Acebook project. We used Bootstrap again to make it look pretty. Trying to make it more user friendly was very helpful as it made us think more about the way the website would be accessed, and how it functions. Previously we had a … Continue reading Day 43 at Makers Academy →

Finishing Acebook Functionality Users Can Only Like Posts Once Today we tackled the final bit of functionality for the project, the ability to only like posts when signed in, and only like a post once per user. We were thinking this would be tough, but I didn't expect it would take us all day! Basically … Continue reading Day 42 at Makers Academy →