Random Quote Generator Finale

So I am finally finished with the Free Code Camp Random Quote Generator. I can breathe a sigh of relief until next project.

I finished it at 1 am yesterday morning. I wasn’t going to sleep until it was finished and I didn’t. I tweaked it well into the morning, finally falling asleep after decompressing with The Forensic Files on Netflix around 4:30 am. I was so anxious and on this programmer’s high that I couldn’t sleep.

I shared it on Twitter and mentioned Free Code Camp and I got a lot of likes and retweets as Free Code Camp retweet it.

I took my design and existing code and reengineered it for what I needed it to do.

The more you build, the more you learn.

This has been repeated to me many times. I was in a tutorial loop, partially because the gamification is so rewarding and also because I was afraid of making something broken and ugly.

My portfolio is super ugly. I have made it private on CodePen 1 and am thinking about making it a Portfolio 2.0 some time down the road.

I was so frustrated after I started it at the end of June because I would look at code and not understand what it did. My design was needlessly complicated, and I was just all over the place with it.

I went back to Treehouse after scrapping my design and taking a week and a half break from it. I worked on it here and there. But Saturday while working on it and looking at documentation and googling the hell out of my issues, I actually understood the API code I copied and reengineered it. I consulted the documentation for jQuery and decided on which methods and event handlers to use pretty much on my own.

I was proud of what I had done. While a lot of that code was not mine, I made it mine, my design, everything.

http://codepen.io/twhite96/pen/XKqrJX (opens in a new tab)

So I am finally finished with the Free Code Camp Random Quote Generator. I can breathe a sigh of relief until next project.

I finished it at 1 am yesterday morning. I wasn’t going to sleep until it was finished and I didn’t. I tweaked it well into the morning, finally falling asleep after decompressing with The Forensic Files on Netflix around 4:30 am. I was so anxious and on this programmer’s high that I couldn’t sleep.

I shared it on Twitter and mentioned Free Code Camp and I got a lot of likes and retweets as Free Code Camp retweet it.

I took my design and existing code and reengineered it for what I needed it to do.

The more you build, the more you learn.

This has been repeated to me many times. I was in a tutorial loop, partially because the gamification is so rewarding and also because I was afraid of making something broken and ugly.

My portfolio is super ugly. I have made it private on CodePen 1 and am thinking about making it a Portfolio 2.0 some time down the road.

I was so frustrated after I started it at the end of June because I would look at code and not understand what it did. My design was needlessly complicated, and I was just all over the place with it.

I went back to Treehouse after scrapping my design and taking a week and a half break from it. I worked on it here and there. But Saturday while working on it and looking at documentation and googling the hell out of my issues, I actually understood the API code I copied and reengineered it. I consulted the documentation for jQuery and decided on which methods and event handlers to use pretty much on my own.

I was proud of what I had done. While a lot of that code was not mine, I made it mine, my design, everything.

http://codepen.io/twhite96/pen/XKqrJX (opens in a new tab)