Hi 👋 I'm Agene O. Sunday , a Frontend Web Developer and a member of Facebook Developer Circles Lokoja community.
The 11th of May 2020 signaled the beginning of an amazing journey tagged #DevCLokoja7WeeksOfCode, a journey that sought to :
- Help the community members improve their programming skills as programmers and get newbies excited and introduced to programming.
- Equip the community members with adequate and well curated learning resources spanning mobile development, machine learning/data science, ui/ux, technical writing and cloud computing.
- Help the members improve her cooperation and bonding as a community.
As a participant of the the #DevCLokoja7WeeksOfCode challenge, I've therefore written this recap to highlight the following:
- Why I joined the challenge
- The effectiveness of the challenge
- How the challenge went and things I learnt
- The things I built
- What next
- Conclusion
Let's get to the recap in details:
Why I joined the challenge.
"There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about." – Margaret J
I had joined the challenge primarily to help strengthen my hands on coding experience , really wanted to get away from the tutorial hell and start building stuffs , so I wanted to leverage the power of community. The following are the specific SMART objectives I had in mind at the beginning of the journey:
- Learn bootstrap 4 following CodeCademy curriculum
- Write 2 blog post on bootstrap 4
- Build a full fledged website adopting bootstrap 4 knowledge
The effectiveness of the challenge
The 7 weeks journey to being world class was highly effective , as it helped me :
- Improve my coding skills
- To have access to more learning resources
- Increase my accountability and led to a massive boost of my productivity.
- Landed a certificate on bootstrap 4 from Codecademy
How it went and the things I learnt
The 7 weeks of code was truly an amazing coding challenge that spurred my content writing skills and further improved my frontend Web development skills , specifically I learnt the following in between:
- Interpreting and coding a mockup design
- How to prototype using bootstrap 4
- Ultra learning technique for rapid learning.
- Hosting on Netlify from GitHub
- Community bonding and collaboration.
The things I built
If you had read my recap from the start you should have probably seen my number 3 SMART objective for the #devClokoja7weeksofcode , it won't be a bad idea if you scroll back up to go check the SMART objectives. Did you 😊 ?
Okey, the SMART objective number 3 was to be able to build a fully mobile responsive website for the period. And viola!!! I aced that objective and more, during the course of the challenge i was able to build the following:
- Built and hosted a full fledged mobile responsive film festival website where users can pre-register for a movie event. 👇👇
- Built and hosted a mobile responsive business card website to showcase responsive design skills.
- Built and deployed a mobile responsive personal portfolio website with the skills learnt in css3,html5, bootstrap 4 and JavaScript
In addition to the websites built , I also wrote the two blog post as intended in my SMART objectives for the #devClokoja7weeksofcode.
What next ?
Oh my it's been an incredible 7 weeks journey , obviously what's next is to learn, build ,write , repeat 😁.
Conclusion
In this recap of #devClokoja7weeksofcode , I have been able to fully itemize why I took the challenge , it's effectiveness , what I learnt and things I was able to build.
In conclusion it was an amazing journey that I really can't wait for the next edition. Till next time just remember:👇
"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." ~ Francis of Assisi