Self-assessment I
Overview:
- Technical Areas
- Familiarizing with Discourse stack
- Brainstorming Theme and Plugin ideas
- Implementing STEM-away layout idea
- Tools
- Ruby
- PostgreSQL
- Github
- Bootstrap4
- VS Code
- Soft Skills
- Project management
- Asana
- Team interaction and coordination
- Slack
- Project management
Achievement highlights:
- Set up workspace (g-suite, Asana, Slack, Discourse stack)
- Complete all tasks assigned on Asana
- Star Performers
List of meetings/trainings attended
- Meeting 1 - Orientation
- Meeting 2
- Meeting 3
- Meeting 4
- Meeting 5
- Meeting 6
- Meeting 7 - SCRUM
- Discourse Demo
Goals for the upcoming week
- Go through resources to prepare
- set and get familiar with AWS
- set up Discourse within AWS
- Start creating plug-in for open source
- Post-info will be added on when is it published (Timezone timestamp)
- Add a specific color schema for replies to distinguish it from posts
- Removal of Duplicates of replies and embed all the replies at same area
- Formulate Teams
Tasks done
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PostgreSQL
- Set up psql
- Create a table in Postgres
- hurdles: none
- resources used: Youtube tutorial
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Ruby
- Create a loop in Ruby
- Create function in Ruby
- hurdles: none
- resources used: codecademy
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Implement Front-end layout
- Set three-column layout
- Implement top navigation
- Implement sidebar navigation
- Implement containers to center column
- hurdles: first time creating web page layout using a front-end CSS framework (Bootstrap) and VS code. Hurdles overcome by using online resources to self-teach.
- resources: W3Schools, Youtube tutorial
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Git task
- Clone the repo
- Create my own branch
- Modify the test file
- Merge changes
- Push the code
- hurdles: first time connecting VS Code to github. Hurdles overcome by using online resources to self-teach.
- Youtube tutorials, especially “Git for poets”
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