Web Development

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 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 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 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 17: Home-grown validation

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First off, I created a landing page with my login/signup modal window, fixed the routes that lead out from that, and learned the capital of Mauritania. It’s Nouakchott.

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…

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 8: #hashing

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I spent the rest of last night and a solid 10 hours today on login/logout/password storage research, and overall it was fruitless.

I did have a few wins:

1. I figured out how to use WTForms and Flask-WTF, so…

Day 5: TGIFlask

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Each morning at Hackbright between lecture and project time, we break up into small groups for a quick scrum, except it’s a rather odd scrum because everyone is working on completely disparate projects. When I got ready to speak my three sentences…