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 →

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 →