# Chris\_Shen - Full Stack Pathway

**URL:** <https://stemaway.com/t/chris-shen-full-stack-pathway/5281>\
**Category:** Open Source Ruby Plugin Self-Assessments\
**Created:** [July 28, 2020, 4:40pm UTC](https://stemaway.com/t/chris-shen-full-stack-pathway/5281 "2020-07-28T16:40:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Chris\_Shen](https://d2nat51eddc6b4.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/stemaway.com/chris_shen/32/719_2.png) [@Chris\_Shen](https://stemaway.com/u/Chris_Shen)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 4:40pm UTC](https://stemaway.com/t/chris-shen-full-stack-pathway/5281/1 "2020-07-28T16:40:02Z")

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This is the first #Self-Assessment for Chris Shen.

1. Things learned:
  - Technical Area: Learned the basics for Ruby and git.
  - Tools: I have already installed all tools from previous session.
  - Soft Skills: Developed project management skills and team coordination.

2. Achievement highlights:
  - Attended every meeting
  - Completed all the given tasks in time
  - Actively online on slack for solving other’s problems

3. List of meetings/trainings:
  - Full Stack Team #2 - First Meeting
  - Project Tools Meeting
  - Industry Mentor Meeting
  - Discourse Codebase Meeting
  - FS Team 2 Meeting
  - Github/Self-Assessment Meeting

4. Goals for the upcoming week:
  - Read " Developer’s guide to Discourse Themes"
  - Be familiar more with Ruby and Git

5. Detailed statement of tasks done:
  - Completed the Ruby minitask
  - Pushing the code to my personal branch
    - Since I was already in the mentorchain organization of github, I don’t have trouble accessing the repository unlike others. Therefore, I will be trying to send invites to others who have trouble accessing it.

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**Author:** ![Chris\_Shen](https://d2nat51eddc6b4.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/stemaway.com/chris_shen/32/719_2.png) [@Chris\_Shen](https://stemaway.com/u/Chris_Shen)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2020, 5:53pm UTC](https://stemaway.com/t/chris-shen-full-stack-pathway/5281/2 "2020-08-04T17:53:07Z")

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This is the second #Self-Assessment for Chris Shen.

1. Things learned:
  - Technical Area: Learned how to develop themes for Discourse using both local instance and GitHub repository
  - Tools: I have already installed all tools from previous session.
  - Soft Skills: Developed project management skills and team coordination.

2. Achievement highlights:
  - Invited all teammates to the github repository
  - Completed the theme development tutorial
  - Actively online on slack for solving other’s problems

3. List of meetings/trainings:
  - Discourse Theme Development Intro/Review
  - Javascript Overview & Theme Brainstorming
  - Split into Subteam

4. Goals for the upcoming week:
  - Start developing in the subteam
  - Finish learning all the resources given

5. Detailed statement of tasks done:
  - Theme Component Ideation
  - Take feedback survey
  - Work through Discourse Theme tutorial

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**Author:** ![Chris\_Shen](https://d2nat51eddc6b4.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/stemaway.com/chris_shen/32/719_2.png) [@Chris\_Shen](https://stemaway.com/u/Chris_Shen)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 5:06pm UTC](https://stemaway.com/t/chris-shen-full-stack-pathway/5281/3 "2020-08-12T17:06:28Z")

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This is the third #Self-Assessment for Chris Shen.

1. Things learned:
  - Technical Area: Learned how to develop themes for Discourse on .scss file, and preview the theme in local instance
  - Tools: Use of Trello and Discord
  - Soft Skills: Developed project management skills and team coordination.

2. Achievement highlights:
  - Sueccessfully developed the 3d pop-out feature for our test theme
  - Learnt the way of designing a theme through manipulating .html and .scss files
  - Actively online on slack for communication

3. List of meetings/trainings:
  - Industry Mentor Meeting
  - FS Team 2 Meeting
  - SubTeam-2 Meeting\*3
  - Week WrapUp Meeting

4. Goals for the upcoming week:
  - Try to figure out the navi-bar design
  - Search for resources to finish^

5. Detailed statement of tasks done:
  - 3D Pop-Out feature design

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**Author:** ![Chris\_Shen](https://d2nat51eddc6b4.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/stemaway.com/chris_shen/32/719_2.png) [@Chris\_Shen](https://stemaway.com/u/Chris_Shen)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 3:42am UTC](https://stemaway.com/t/chris-shen-full-stack-pathway/5281/4 "2020-08-19T03:42:09Z")

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This is the fourth #Self-Assessment for Chris Shen.

1. Things learned:
  - Technical Area: Learned how to design buttons in the header menu & navigation bar
  - Tools: Github skills
  - Soft Skills: Developed project management skills and team coordination.

2. Achievement highlights:
  - Successfully added a button next in the navigation bar
  - Attended all the meetings promptly
  - Frequently used own test theme to develop new features

3. List of meetings/trainings:
  - Sub-team2-Meeting\*4
  - RuntimeTerror Meeting

4. Goals for the upcoming week:
  - Try to add the button as a dropdown instead of a link

5. Detailed statement of tasks done:
  - Adding the notification button
  - Watched industry mentor meeting recording

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**Author:** ![Chris\_Shen](https://d2nat51eddc6b4.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/stemaway.com/chris_shen/32/719_2.png) [@Chris\_Shen](https://stemaway.com/u/Chris_Shen)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://stemaway.com/t/chris-shen-full-stack-pathway/5281/5 "2020-08-25T20:25:06Z")

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This is the fifth #Self-Assessment for Chris Shen.

1. Things learned:
  - Technical Area: Learned how to install the quick-access-panel into a widget
  - Tools: Github skills
  - Soft Skills: Developed project management skills and team coordination.

2. Achievement highlights:
  - Watch the recording of the industry mentor meeting
  - Tried to manipulate the code according to the recording & online recourses
  - Attended all the meetings promptly

3. List of meetings/trainings:
  - Industry Mentor Meeting\*2
  - RuntimeTerror Mid Week Recap
  - Subteam meeting

4. Goals for the upcoming week:
  - Prepare for final presentation

5. Detailed statement of tasks done:
  - Tried to accomplish the dropdown feature to the button
