Kristen_Johanson - Full Stack Pathway

Things Learned

Technical Area: Discourse Plug-ins and Themes, Ruby objects and classes, inheritance, methods, modules

Tools: Discourse, Ruby, Asana, GitHub

Soft skills: Working entirely by remote for a group project, Effective group communication

Achievement highlights

  • Discourse Installation
  • Went through freeCodeCamp.org’s Full Course on Ruby
  • Ruby tasks as assigned in Asana

Meetings/Training

I attended all Full Stack Team 1 group meetings.

Goals for the Upcoming Week

  • Become more familiar with Discourse Plug-in and Theme Development
  • Continue to improve Ruby skills
  • Increase Asana knowledge
  • Push all Ruby code to GitHub

Tasks Done

Installed Discourse, Researched Discourse Plug-ins, Eight Ruby mini-tasks assigned in Asana, Reviewed Git and GitHub

Kristen Johanson - FS - Self Assessment - ending 8/4/20

Things Learned

Technical Area: Discourse Plug-ins and Themes, Ruby basic syntax, Git, Basic Ubuntu commands

Tools: Discourse, Ruby, Asana, GitHub, Ubuntu, Slack, Google Docs, Trello

Soft skills: Working entirely by remote for a group project, Effective group communication

Achievement highlights

  • Researched Discourse Plug-ins and themes
  • Brainstormed theme components for Discourse
  • Installed Fakebook theme for Discourse
  • Switched from Asana to Trello

Meetings/Training

I attended all Full Stack Team 1 group meetings and watched the Git/GitHub webinar.

Goals for the Upcoming Week

  • Become more familiar with Discourse Plug-in and Theme Development
  • Work on Discourse theme component with new sub-group
  • Increase Trello knowledge

Tasks Done

Researched Discourse themes, installed Fakebook theme, GitHub tasks, Became familiar with Trello, Resolved login issues on local instance of Discourse

Kristen Johanson - FS - Self Assessment - ending 8/11/20

Things Learned

Technical Area: Discourse Plug-ins and Themes, Ruby basic syntax, Git, Basic Ubuntu commands

Tools: Discourse, Ruby, Asana, GitHub, Ubuntu, Slack, Google Docs, Trello

Soft skills: Working entirely by remote for a group project, Effective group communication

Achievement highlights

  • Further researched and brainstormed theme components
  • Theme component: Calendar card that rotates 180 degrees horizontally on hover
  • Worked on previewing changes in Discourse

Meetings/Training

I attended all Full Stack Team 1 group meetings.

Goals for the Upcoming Week

  • Master previewing themes in Discourse
  • Continue to work on Discourse theme component with new sub-group
  • Increase Trello knowledge

Tasks Done

Researched Discourse themes, Brainstormed theme components, Created theme component card that rotates on hover, Became more familiar with Trello

Kristen Johanson - FS - Self Assessment - ending 8/18/20

Things Learned

Technical Area: Discourse Plug-ins and Themes, Ruby basic syntax, Git, Basic Ubuntu commands, HTML, CSS

Tools: Discourse, Ruby, Asana, GitHub, Ubuntu, Slack, Google Docs, Trello

Soft skills: Working entirely by remote for a group project, Effective group communication

Achievement highlights

  • Gained further familiarity with Discourse theme components
  • Learned new CSS tricks
  • Made four horizontal menu cards that rotate 180 degrees on hover
  • Worked on previewing changes in Discourse

Meetings/Training

I attended all Full Stack Team 1 group meetings.

Goals for the Upcoming Week

  • Finalize theme component for sub-group
  • Work on final presentation

Tasks Done

Horizontal menu cards that rotate on hover which was pushed to my branch on GitHub, Became more familiar with Trello, Sub-group 2 tasks as assigned