Day 10: Twilio and the fourth wall

>>> Brief summary

Twilio graciously hosted us Hackbrights for an afternoon workshop and dinner today, and I could not be more jazzed. Jazzed is absolutely the best word for it. But if you can’t relate to feeling jazzed, consider the way you…

Days 25–28: The end is near

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Forgive me Medium for I have sinned. It has been four days since my last post.

I really needed a break these past four days. I didn’t get one, of course; it’s the last big push of our sprint towards code freeze…

Day 24: The Christmas Python

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Today blew by me — I can barely remember what I worked on. Looking back over Athena, I realize I did a lot:

• Finalized the primary language question so the quiz now has four questions!

Day 19, 20, 21: The no-plan plan

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Warning → tl:dr == mostly despair.

I feel like I have been casting about sort of aimlessly for the past three days, taking lots of breaks and worrying a good bet. I’ve lost direction. I spent another 8…

Day 16: Everything is broken. Typical.

>>> Brief summary == Where I struggled

Things are definitely getting harder at a much faster rate than I am getting better. I tried to put my login/signup forms back in a modal window today and I pretty much broke all of my routes…

Day 18: Checked forms, google maps API

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I started the day by cleaning up my login/signup form-checking so that the login and signup buttons are disabled unless all information entered is correct. There are approximately a google ways to do this, but I stuck…

Day 23: front-end testing

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Coding was short and sweet today, because we spent the morning touring the new Bloomberg offices and talking with a few of their engineers there (and there really are only a few there, 15 in total right now). We Hackbrights nearly doubled…

Day 9: passing words

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Athen now has sign up, login, and logout enabled! I can sign up users, check them to be sure their emails are unique and not already stored in the database, allow them login and logout with appropriate navbar buttons, and restrict access to the…

Day 12: MVP Complete!

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Bammo! The seven components of my minimum viable product are complete as of today. You can log in to Athena, take a few single-question capital quizzes, see your scores per continent, and check out how you compare against the average scores of…