Andy's 100 days

log.md

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 # 100 Days Of Code - Log
 
-### Day 0: February 30, 2016 (Example 1)
-##### (delete me or comment me out)
+### Day 0: Tuesday, 29th August
 
-**Today's Progress**: Fixed CSS, worked on canvas functionality for the app.
 
-**Thoughts:** I really struggled with CSS, but, overall, I feel like I am slowly getting better at it. Canvas is still new for me, but I managed to figure out some basic functionality.
+**Today's Progress**: Continued Freecodecamp - build a Rothko Painting. Started the build a photo gallery task.
 
-**Link to work:** [Calculator App](http://www.example.com)
+**Thoughts:** Fairly straightforawrd step by step, learning how to use the blur function.
+**Link to work:** (https://www.freecodecamp.org/fcc9e9aab25-3e37-4137-8923-c4e572ed5125)
 
-### Day 0: February 30, 2016 (Example 2)
-##### (delete me or comment me out)
+### Day 1: Wednesday, 30th August
 
-**Today's Progress**: Fixed CSS, worked on canvas functionality for the app.
+**Today's Progress**: Continued to build a photo gallery in freecodecamp. Began building a nutrition label task.
 
-**Thoughts**: I really struggled with CSS, but, overall, I feel like I am slowly getting better at it. Canvas is still new for me, but I managed to figure out some basic functionality.
+**Thoughts** I'm enjoying the step by step tasks but am conscious of remembering all the commands once the scaffold is gone!
 
-**Link(s) to work**: [Calculator App](http://www.example.com)
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. (https://www.freecodecamp.org/fcc9e9aab25-3e37-4137-8923-c4e572ed5125)https://www.freecodecamp.org/fcc9e9aab25-3e37-4137-8923-c4e572ed5125
+
+### Day 2: Thursday, 31st August
+
+**Today's Progress**: Finished the nutrition label task. Started the next one - Learn accessibility by building a Quiz.
+
+**Thoughts** Getting trickier but that means the satisfaction of getting it right is greater!
+
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. (https://www.freecodecamp.org/fcc9e9aab25-3e37-4137-8923-c4e572ed5125)https://www.freecodecamp.org/fcc9e9aab25-3e37-4137-8923-c4e572ed5125
+
+### Day 3: Friday 1st September
+
+**Today's Progress**: Continued on with task - Learn accessibility by building a Quiz.
+
+**Thoughts** Getting the hang of the more complicated elements.
+
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. (https://www.freecodecamp.org/fcc9e9aab25-3e37-4137-8923-c4e572ed5125)https://www.freecodecamp.org/fcc9e9aab25-3e37-4137-8923-c4e572ed5125
+
+### Day 4: Saturday 2nd September
+
+**Today's Progress**: Completed task - Learn accessibility by building a Quiz
+
+**Thoughts** The last few steps regarding the flexbox and using CSS to alter the parameters were completely new and I will need to recap these.
+
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. (https://www.freecodecamp.org/fcc9e9aab25-3e37-4137-8923-c4e572ed5125)https://www.freecodecamp.org/fcc9e9aab25-3e37-4137-8923-c4e572ed5125
+
+### Day 5: Sunday 3rd September
+
+**Today's Progress**: Build a tribute page task.
+
+**Thoughts** Read through the instructions and decided to make a plan it out - no actual code written
+
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. 
+### Day 6: Monday 4th September
+
+**Today's Progress**: Started SoC bootcamp - introduced to CSS Garden.
+
+**Thoughts** Spent an hour working through the tasks on the website.
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. https://cssgridgarden.com/
+
+### Day 7: Tuesday 5th September
+
+**Today's Progress**: Git commands.
+
+**Thoughts** Learning how to use git commands. Embedding add, commit, push and pull as well as revisiting command line navigation.
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. Line commander game
+
+### Day 8: Wednesday 6th September
+
+**Today's Progress**: Worked through some of the challenges on learngitbranching. Found some challenges harder than others but needed to persevere!
+
+**Thoughts** Spent an hour working through the tasks on the website.
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. https://learngitbranching.js.org/
+
+
+### Day 9: Thursday 7th September
+
+**Today's Progress**: Worked through some of more challenges on learngitbranching. Got my head around git reset and git revert. Planning esccape room project in scratch.
+
+**Thoughts** Spent an hour working through the tasks on the website.
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. https://learngitbranching.js.org/
+2. https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/890848255/
+
+
+### Day 10: Friday 8th September
+
+**Today's Progress**: Completed escape room project in scratch.
+
+**Thoughts** Spent at least an hour creating the game.
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/890848255/
+
+### Saturday 9th September
+
+**Today's Progress**: No coding done - need to add day on at end.
+
+### Day 11: Sunday 10th September
+
+**Today's Progress**: Wrote the html part of the tribute page on freecodecamp.
+
+**Thoughts** Some tricky parts making the code pass the tests, usually due to some silly mistakes.
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. https://www.freecodecamp.org/fcc9e9aab25-3e37-4137-8923-c4e572ed5125
+
+### Day 11: Sunday 10th September
+
+**Today's Progress**: Wrote the CSS part of the tribute page on freecodecamp.
+
+**Thoughts** I found this fairly straightforward as all the tests related to the image.
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. https://www.freecodecamp.org/fcc9e9aab25-3e37-4137-8923-c4e572ed5125
+
+### Day 12: Monday 11th September
+
+**Today's Progress**: Wrote the CSS part of the tribute page on freecodecamp.
+
+**Thoughts** I found this fairly straightforward as all the tests related to the image.
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. https://www.freecodecamp.org/fcc9e9aab25-3e37-4137-8923-c4e572ed5125
+
+### Day 13: Tuesday 12th September
+
+**Today's Progress**: Signed up to codewars and completed first task
+
+**Thoughts** Lots of variation in difficulty. I spent a long time stuck on one before stopping and attempting an easier one.
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. https://www.codewars.com/users/AndyCarey/completed
+
+## Day 14: Wednesday 13th September
+
+**Today's Progress**: Continued with codewars tasks
+
+**Thoughts** A little more success today but still finding that I am spending a lot of time researching methods on google.
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. https://www.codewars.com/users/AndyCarey/completed
+
+## Day 15: Thursday 14th September
+
+**Today's Progress**: Continued with codewars tasks
+
+**Thoughts** Attempted a task but really struggled to find the solution, needed to use a range of methods to try and solve and even then found it hard.
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. https://www.codewars.com/kata/545cedaa9943f7fe7b000048/train/javascript 
+
+## Day 16: Friday 15th September
+
+**Today's Progress**: Built a rock, paper, scissors game usings prompt/alert functions.
+
+**Thoughts** Spent a few hours (with a team) writing the code for the game.
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. 
+
+## Day 17: Saturday 16th September
+
+**Today's Progress**: Discovered Exercism and signed up - completed the first and second task on Javascript.
+
+**Thoughts** Enjoyed the user interface and pathways through the learning.
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. Hello, World! and Luscious Lasagna https://exercism.org/tracks/javascript
+
+## Day 18: Sunday 17th September
+
+**Today's Progress**: Completed more Exercism tasks today.
+
+**Thoughts** Found the Freelancer rates final challenge tricky - managed to apply what we are learning about breaking a problem down to get there in the end!
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. Freelancer rates - https://exercism.org/tracks/javascript
+
+## Day 19: Monday 18th September
+
+**Today's Progress**: Completed more Exercism tasks today.
+
+**Thoughts** More Exercism tasks today, still enjoying reinforcing concepts we learned last week on the bootcamp! Completed Poetry Club Door Policy and started Elyses Enchantments
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. Poetry Club Door Policy - https://exercism.org/tracks/javascript
+
+ ## Day 20: Tuesday 19th September
+
+**Today's Progress**: Spent an hour on codewars.
+
+**Thoughts** I have noticed syntax errors are starting to be less of an issue, it is now finding the best solution to the problem that I still need to research.
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. https://www.codewars.com/users/AndyCarey
+
+## Day 21: Wednesday 20th September
+
+**Today's Progress**: Spent an hour on codewars.
+
+**Thoughts** Levelled up! Now 7 Kyu 😁
 
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. https://www.codewars.com/users/AndyCarey
+
+## Day 22: Thursday 21st September
+
+**Today's Progress**: Completed an hour on codewars - working in a tema to solve a range of problems.
+
+**Thoughts** completed the refactor task - highest and lowest
+
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. (https://www.codewars.com/kata/554b4ac871d6813a03000035)
+
+## Day 23: Friday 22nd September
+
+**Today's Progress**: Built a weather app for a fixed location.
+
+**Thoughts** Managed to use the fetch command and display the weather data
+
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. https://github.com/SchoolOfCode/bc15-w3-d5-hackathon-fetch-small-numbers
+
+## Day 24: Saturday 23rd September
+
+**Today's Progress**: Completed Elyses Enchantments.
+
+**Thoughts** Getting more confident with navigating arrays after completing this task.
+
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. (https://exercism.org/tracks/javascript/exercises/elyses-enchantments)
+
+ ## Day 25: Sunday 24th September
+
+**Today's Progress**: Quarter of the way! 
+
+**Thoughts** Passed another task on exercism - Vehicle Purchase. Finding I understand functions more now.
+
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. (https://exercism.org/tracks/javascript/exercises/vehicle-purchase)
+
+## Day 26: Monday 25th September
+
+**Today's Progress**: Practiced linking an API and making the contents appear in a browser page 
+
+**Thoughts** Not as complete as I wanted it to be, but it displays the film titles from the API. I would like to add more functionality and styling to the page. 
+
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. https://github.com/SchoolOfCode/bc15-w3-recap-task-fetch-challenge-carey-andrew
+
+## Day 27: Tuesday 26th September
+
+**Today's Progress**: Learned how to add a unique ID generator to javascript 
+
+**Thoughts** Opened my eyes to 3rd Party packages!
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. Created a database of people each with a unique Id!
+
+## Day 28: Wednesday 27th September
+
+**Today's Progress**: Used ExpressJS to build a Rest API.
+
+**Thoughts** Need to make sure that it follows RESTful conventions, so as not to give my users a poor experience.
+
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. Created a REST API able to store and retrieve memorable quotes.
+
+## Day 29: Thursday 28th September
+
+**Today's Progress**: Learned how to add functionality such as PUT, PATCH and DELETE
+
+**Thoughts** Starting to see the implications of such a database, applications can be scaled up to storing users data for almost anything!
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. Same database as yesterday but now with more functionality.
+
+## Day 30: Friday 29th September
+
+**Today's Progress**: Built a RESTAPI from scratch as part of this week's hack-a-thon.
+
+**Thoughts** We chose to model it on a corner store set-up that sells fruits or chocolate and coded the ability to GET, POST, PATCH or DELETE products, all stored in a JSON file.
+
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. https://github.com/SchoolOfCode/bc15-w4-d5-hackathon-backend-the-northern-team
+
+## Day 31: Saturday 30th September
+
+**Today's Progress**: Completed some more codewars tasks
+
+**Thoughts** 31 days in wow! Getting much more confident with coding and using skills I never thought I had.
+
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. What is between?
+
+ ## Day 32: Sunday 1st October
+
+**Today's Progress**: Weekend codewars!
+
+**Thoughts** Getting more comfortable with 8kyu - need to try more level 7's!
+
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. Are You Playing Banjo?
+
+## Day 33: Monday 2nd October
+
+**Today's Progress**: Completed all the tasks on the SQL tutorial learning how to JOIN, SELECT and use WHERE in SQL.
+
+**Thoughts** Enjoying the common sense approach to the language used to navigate and query.
+**Link(s) to work**
+1.https://sqlbolt.com/
+2.
+## Day 34: Tuesday 3rd October
+
+**Today's Progress**: Solved a murder mystery using SQL queries. 
+
+**Thoughts** Really enjoyed navigating the game and writing the queries.
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. https://mystery.knightlab.com/walkthrough.html
+
+## Day 35: Wednesday 4th October
+
+**Today's Progress**: Added new lines of code to Movie API to return all titles and overviews - in a cleaner way
+
+**Thoughts** Changes suggested by mentor made sense!
+
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. 
+
+## Day 36: Thursday 5th October
+
+**Today's Progress**: Coded the link between Elephant SqL Db and node.js
+
+**Thoughts** managed to write the queries for one table, still need to complete another
+
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. (https://api.elephantsql.com/console/05c8fe98-8084-4222-a4cd-15d6ed294007/stats?)
+
+## Day 37: Friday 6th October
+
+**Today's Progress**: Built an API with a database, using SQL to query. 
+
+**Thoughts** Very satisfied with the amount of work completed today. Functioning database with CRUD functionality.
+
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. https://github.com/SchoolOfCode/bc15-w5-d5-hackathon-build-a-rest-api-with-postgres-basethree
+
+## Day 38: Saturday 7th October
+
+**Today's Progress**: Started a portfolio website
+
+**Thoughts** HTML and CSS make a lot more sense than 38 days ago!
+
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. https://github.com/carey-andrew/developer-portfolio/tree/main
+
+## Day 39: Sunday 8th October
+
+**Today's Progress**: More work on portfolio website
+
+**Thoughts** About me section updated
+
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. (https://github.com/carey-andrew/developer-portfolio/tree/main)
+
+## Day 40: Monday 9th October
+
+**Today's Progress**: Added a background picture to portfolio and learned how to overlap the features
+
+**Thoughts** Problem solving skills tested today in order to get the look I wanted.
+
+**Link(s) to work**
+1. https://github.com/carey-andrew/developer-portfolio/tree/main
 
-### Day 1: June 27, Monday
+## Day 41: Tuesday 10th October
 
-**Today's Progress**: I've gone through many exercises on FreeCodeCamp.
+**Today's Progress**: Codewars - scrabble score task done!
 
-**Thoughts** I've recently started coding, and it's a great feeling when I finally solve an algorithm challenge after a lot of attempts and hours spent.
+**Thoughts** Completed twice! Once as part of a project then refactored for codewars!
 
 **Link(s) to work**
-1. [Find the Longest Word in a String](https://www.freecodecamp.com/challenges/find-the-longest-word-in-a-string)
-2. [Title Case a Sentence](https://www.freecodecamp.com/challenges/title-case-a-sentence)
+1. 

rules.md

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 ### *I will code for at least an hour every day for the next 100 days.*
 
 #### Start Date
-June 25th, 2016. [PUT YOUR DATE HERE]
+Tuesday 29th August 2023.
 
 ## Additional Rules
 1. I will tweet about my progress every day -> using the hashtag #100DaysOfCode