Workshop “How to Whiteboard Effectively”

Last night I attended the Codesmith’s “How to Whiteboard Effectively” online workshop, and I was so excited about it that I had to blog about it right away! It was extremely useful. As the bootcamp is slowly coming to an end (we only have 2 months left!), I find it important to acquire other skills

Portfolio Development for UI/UX & Software Engineers & Developers

On June 23rd I attended an online event on Portfolio Development organized by CUNY and Google. I was really excited about this event because I know how important it is to have an outstanding portfolio for successful job search. Even though we are not even halfway through the bootcamp, it’s crucial to start building a

Google x CUNY | Open Source Projects Workshop

On May 6 I attended an online workshop on how to start contributing to Open Source Projects organized by Google and CUNY. During this workshop the speaker (one of Google’s Software Developers) talked about tips and tricks for navigating and engaging with Open Source projects. First he talked about why you would want to engage

Software Guild Java: Milestone 1 Project

After finishing our introduction course to web development with HTML, CSS and JS and presenting our static restaurant websites we moved on to learning another programming language Java. This was my first time working with Java and I have to say it’s definitely harder than JavaScript (even though the names are very similar). Our work

Online Meetup “4 Fundamental Programmatic Concepts w/ Lukas Ruebbelke”

On April 21 I attended an online meetup organized by Codesmith. I have to say the event was really useful for me. The speaker started by saying that in the beginning of his career he was feeling lost and confused (which I can totally get!) and only after a while he realized that he kept

Final Web Development Week – JavaScript

The third and final week of the Web Development module was dedicated entirely to learning JavaScript. Since we focused on JS a lot during the Vestibule, the only new thing was JS and the DOM. We learned how to manipulate certain parts of the website we created earlier using JS, which is a very powerful

CSS and Bootstrap

After presenting our HTML restaurant pages last week we started working on CSS and Bootstrap. I was a little familiar with CSS before starting this program, so the general CSS information was not new for me. Bootstrap, however, was something new. I have never used any CSS frameworks before, and I was surprised how easy

HTML, Web Hosting and Domain Registration

On the first week of our Software Guild Web Development module we dived into the world of HTML. From Monday to Thursday we were working on the SG online platform, coding along and building our first portfolio pages. The final project for the HTML part was creating “a foundation” (HTML only) for our own restaurant

Online Meetup “Web Development Fundamentals: HTML and CSS”

On Tuesday, March 24 I attended my second tech meetup. Unfortunately, this one was carried out online due to the quarantine. One of my cohort peers shared the link to this meetup in the group chat and I thought it would be a great opportunity to get more information about HTML and CSS because this

The Final Project (Vestibule)

The idea for my final project was inspired by this Coding Train video on “Objects and Images”. I love yoga and I thought it would be cool to create an animation of a person practicing yoga non-stop with a beautiful background. Hiking is a big part of my life too, so I thought I would