day 172 — code 365

Fri 03 Jun 2016

Atom

My new favourite shortcut:

Control + Command + m

This selects all the text inside bracket tags!

Node

Finished how-to-node!

This was a command-line tutorial that takes you through the basics of working with Node packages. Things like saving dependencies, distribution tags, publishing, and versioning packages. Still feeling very green, but it’s another step forward!

ES6

Started writing my first ES6 code! I’ve come across them before — reading ‘Introduction to ES6 tutorials’, retro-understanding ES6 functions in libraries I’ve used, and a code-along in the final week of General Assembly, but not needing to actually THINK and write them in exercises! I most definitely feel that this is the best way to learn. It’s like why WDI was so good — active coding — like the warm-ups, homework, creating projects. Writing code that solves a problem / to a specification!

Today: Template strings, Arrow functions. The arrow functions exercise also helped me understanding .map and .reduce better too, as in what is returned by a function, and how this will be passed to the next function chained to it. Exciting!