J_hang9001 - Full Stack (Level 2) Pathway

Module 1:

  • Technical Areas:
    • Learned about what Discourse is and what it’s used for
    • learned about GitHub and its commands
    • Learned more about Ruby
  • Tools:
    • Discourse
    • GitHub
  • Soft Skills
    • Time management
    • self-learning

Achievement

  • got started on downloading Discourse on my Macbook and had to troubleshoot a few issues and fixed them by downloading the dependencies
  • Learned more about GitHub and how to use it
  • got familiar with using command line again after not using it for a while

Goals for upcoming week:

  • try to finish downloading on MacOS
  • Complete Module 2

Module 2:

  • Technical Areas:
    • Learned and read about the basics of SCSS
    • read the ember guides and learned more about it
  • Tools:
    • Discourse
    • VS Code
  • Soft Skills
    • Time management
    • attended scrum meetings

Achievement

  • Successfully downloaded discourse onto my Macbook along with create the admin
  • Learned the basics and concept of SCSS

Goals for the upcoming week:

  • Complete Module 2
  • Get familiarize with Discourse
  • Get familiarized with Ember.js more

Module 3:

  • Technical Areas:
    • Learned and read about how to create a theme
    • read the guides on how to make a theme with CLI
  • Tools:
    • Discourse
    • VS Code
    • github
  • Soft Skills
    • attended scrum meetings

Achievement

  • successfully created a discourse theme remotely and locally after taking a lot of time to figure things out and troubleshooting
  • used git commands to help push the changes I made to github and was proud since it was my first time using git command in a while
  • Tried to create discourse with CLI and getting started on it

Goals for the upcoming week:

  • Complete Module 4
  • work more on discourse theme
  • Get familiarized with scss more

Module 4:

  • Technical Areas:
    • Worked on the themes more
  • Tools:
    • Discourse
    • VS Code
    • github
  • Soft Skills
    • attended scrum meetings

Achievement

  • Discussed dark theme mode and how we plan to finish it together
  • I edited more of my theme that I created
  • I wrote some of ideas down for dark theme so I can discuss it with my group when we met up

Goals for the upcoming week:

  • Complete Module 5
  • work more on discourse dark theme

Module 5:

  • Technical Areas:
    • Worked on the theme and finalized it
    • Added animation to the background
    • do the readings for module 4 and 5
  • Tools:
    • Discourse
    • VS Code
    • github
  • Soft Skills
    • attended scrum meetings
    • attend dark theme meetings

Achievement

  • Finalized the dark theme and add animations
  • did some of the readings in module 4
  • presented dark theme to the teams and leads

Goals for the upcoming week:

  • Complete Module 4 and 5

Module 6:

  • Technical Areas:
    • Worked on the theme and finalized it
    • did readings for module 5 and 6
  • Tools:
    • Discourse
    • VS Code
    • github
  • Soft Skills
    • attended scrum meetings

Achievement

  • Checked out code for front end and did some research on how to help out
  • Finished module 5 and is starting 6 since I was behind due to side projects

Goals for the upcoming week:

  • Complete module 6
  • catch up on back end

Module 7

Technical Area

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Git
  • EmberJS
  • Ruby on Rails

Tools

  • Visual Studio Code
  • Trello
  • GitHub
  • Discord Channel
  • Slack Channel

Soft Skills

  • learn to work around everyone’s schedule to find time to communicate
  • Manage to hold meetings when needed and collaborate with the backend team

Achievements

  • Solved some merging issues on macOS
  • figured out how to use vs code live to code in real-time with team members
  • worked on slides for presentation and written final script on what to say