Travis and React Travis One of the features on the Trello board was to add Travis CI to our GitHub repo. Travis is a Continuous Integration tool which you can set up to run automatically when you commit to your repo. The below explanation of Travis is from their website: Continuous Integration is the practice … Continue reading Day 41 at Makers Academy →

More Acebook and Java Sessions We carried on with Acebook again today of course! Only Users Can Post In the morning we tried to implement the feature that you can only post when you are signed in. To do this we would need a way to check if a user was logged in. Initially we … Continue reading Day 40 at Makers Academy →

Acebook Continued Today we got back into our team and carried on with Acebook. Sorting by Date On Friday afternoon we were trying to implement a feature, which was that the posts should be shown in reverse chronological order. We were having some issues with this, as the way they were displayed was through an … Continue reading Day 39 at Makers Academy →

Acebook Today we properly started on our group project, Acebook. Acebook is our version of Facebook, much like Chitter before. To start we have been given a Trello board with user stories on, which we can update and change as we want. Our team Trello board. Group Work This project is our first real group … Continue reading Day 38 at Makers Academy →

Even More Java Java Terms In the Java we have done so far, there is a lot of use of static and void in our methods. I have a basic understanding of them, but wanted to give a bit more detail on them: static is a keyword used to describe how objects are managed in … Continue reading Day 37 at Makers Academy →

More Java Airport Challenge Yesterday we started work on re-creating another old challenge in Java, the Airport Challenge. We had to use TDD to write the code from the start, using JUnit. This was a bit more difficult than the first two times we have done it, as Java is way less friendly, and JUnit … Continue reading Day 36 at Makers Academy →

Java Starting with Java This week we are starting on another new language. As the Friday and Monday just gone were bank holidays, we were not in Makers, so I decided to do a little research into Java so I would have a little understanding. Not too much though as the weather was lovely and … Continue reading Day 35 at Makers Academy →

Bowling As I finished the Thermostat yesterday and tomorrow is a Bank Holiday, today I started work on the Friday Challenge. Bowling Score Card The challenge was to create a program in JavaScript that allowed you to track the score in a game of bowling. In the morning I managed to get it working to … Continue reading Day 34 at Makers Academy →

Learning About jQuery, AJAX and Bootstrap As I mentioned yesterday, we used a few things for the first time while building our Thermostat. <br> - the <br> html tag adds a line break after the line you put it. Putting in multiple tags adds multiple line breaks. Useful for spacing things out on a page.Interface … Continue reading Day 33 at Makers Academy →

More JavaScript - Sheep, Airports, Thermostat Strict This morning I started looking at re-creating the Airport Challenge which we did a few weeks ago in JavaScript. The start of the walkthrough tells you to add 'use strict'; at the top of the spec file, but doesn't really talk about what that means, so I found … Continue reading Day 32 at Makers Academy →