JavaScript JavaScript Today is the start of a new language week, as we are starting to learn JavaScript. JavaScript is a language that runs natively in your web browser, therefore changes can be made to the web page on the fly without having to reload the page. Here is an example from w3schools. You can … Continue reading Day 31 at Makers Academy →

Chitter Challenge and Half Way! Chitter Today we started the Friday challenge, which this week was to create a Twitter-like program, called Chitter. Here was our brief: Features: USER STORIES As a Maker So that I can let people know what I am doing I want to post a message (peep) to chitter As a … Continue reading Day 30 at Makers Academy →

More on Databases and Finishing Bookmark Manager Database Relationships This morning we had a workshop about Databases and more specifically the relationship between tables within your database. The way were told to look at it was to take the user stories, draw those out into Class-Responsibility-Collaborator cards, then map these into database tables. Here are … Continue reading Day 29 at Makers Academy →

More Bookmark Manager This morning I carried on working through the walkthrough for Bookmark Manager. It is getting really complex now, to the point where I would be pretty lost without the walkthrough, but as it was with Battle that is expected as it is all new stuff. By the Friday challenge last week I … Continue reading Day 27 at Makers Academy →

Databases and Bookmark Manager Today we started looking at databases and how they are used when designing and using websites. The first thing we learnt is how they are related to the client/server relationship we learned about last week. Basically the database sits with the server and is used to store stuff. One of our … Continue reading Day 26 at Makers Academy →

Rock, Paper, Scissors I started on the Friday Challenge this morning, which I spoke about yesterday. I managed to finish it off by 11:30am, so personally I think it went very well! I wrote a plan out yesterday, so I am going to start by comparing what I did to what I planned. Home page … Continue reading Day 25 at Makers Academy →

Random Practicals, Thinking About the Friday Challenge and Perfecting Birthday Greeter Today was a little quieter for me, as I have got as far as I think I can with Battle, and completed the Birthday Greeter project yesterday. This morning I had a look over the last few practicals, which were all very quick. Mainly … Continue reading Day 24 at Makers Academy →

Birthday Greeter and Battle This morning I started on the Birthday Greeter project I mentioned yesterday. I managed to get it working and looking nice by just after lunch, which I am very happy about! As I said it is quite a simple web app, but it still took a lot of work. Here is … Continue reading Day 23 at Makers Academy →

More Battle and the HTTP Process This morning we had a workshop talking about the process of http requests. We then had 15 minutes to work through 3 scenarios as a group and map out what the process was. Then we had to come back and act it out. I played the server, and I … Continue reading Day 22 at Makers Academy →