Jason PolandBaby’s First Weather AppWhile my previous app dealt with making JSON requests from a museum API, this next project focused on making requests to a live and…Mar 31, 2016Mar 31, 2016
Jason PolandThere’s Text Adventure Game Hiding in my Terminal!While researching my last post, I was making the logical leap from javascript objects to text-based adventure games, and lo and behold, I…Mar 30, 2016Mar 30, 2016
Jason PolandConstructor Junction, What’s Your Function?We’re pretty deep in Javascriptland at the moment — thinking in the abstract is key since we’re not producing visual results like we were…Mar 30, 20161Mar 30, 20161
Jason PolandThe Amazing Rijksmuseum APIThere are some great APIs out, and when I started looking for more — I soon found the Rijksmuseum API. This is what I like to see!Mar 30, 20161Mar 30, 20161
Jason PolandAPI Data Finds a Way...My first introduction to API and JSON requests left me thinking about all the possibilities a developer has when working with all this…Mar 30, 2016Mar 30, 2016
Jason PolandSet Interval and Hexadecimal ColorsWe were tasked with creating a “ticking” clock that displayed a hexadecimal color generated from the current time. This was a fun project…Mar 30, 2016Mar 30, 2016
Jason PolandEvent Loops are Your FriendI have never heard of Event Loops before this video. That makes sense since I’m just starting out in code, but I imagine that ELs are a…Feb 22, 2016Feb 22, 2016
Jason PolandHow to Handle Big Code Problems: Break em’ Down into Little Cubes!One of the hardest things about learning and executing code (and I expect it will continue to be a problem long after my introductory…Feb 16, 2016Feb 16, 2016
Jason PolandLearnin’ CSS LayoutI dived in headfirst to a HTML/CSS project today, and while I completed it, I realized there were probably some CSS “better practices” I…Feb 3, 2016Feb 3, 2016
Jason PolandFirst Day of ClassI’m very happy to be learning again, and especially learning code. Each day of class at the Iron Yard was divided between a lecture period…Feb 1, 2016Feb 1, 2016