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β Leanne and Michael go back in time, Connect four clones, and easy CSS shapes!
Hello Reader π
Time for a new edition of the Scrimba Roundup! We have a ton more tips, tricks, and fun tidbits to share.
Let's go, shall we?
TL;DR π
π₯ New Hires: Rick, Cheng, El, and Darrell!
π₯ Code Review of the Week: Natalia!
π₯ I Built This: Mykalimba creates a Connect 4 clone!
π₯ Fab Resource: 10 Super easy CSS Shapes for beginnersβ
π₯ Podcast: Scrimba Student Trecia talks about why passion doesnβt mean youβll be great at something - and how to recognize what you can actually be great at.
π₯ Live Code Fun: Leanne and Michael code a JavaScript timeline.
New Hires π
Big congratulations to all the Scrimba students whoβve landed jobs this week! π₯³ π
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Darrell has started work as a Software Engineer on the 1st of February. This a big change, as they used to work in sales. Darrell says Scrimba has played an important role although they are not yet through the career path.
It sounds like he has time to learn on the new job, which is awesome. Itβs great when a company offers that!
Don't forget to check out our Scrimba student success page for more inspirational tales!
Code Review of the Week π
Anyone can create a code review in response to a project posted in the #πcode-reviews channel, but only Pro members can request one.
This weekβs Code Review of the Week is by Natalia! you can check it out here.
To learn how to submit a code review, check out this scrim by Instructor Guil Hernandez!
I Built This π οΈ
Letβs highlight some of the work that our Scrimba community members have completed!
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Community member Mykalimba has sought out to create a Connect 4 clone!
He says the incentive for working on this project was a discussion in the #general channel in the Scrimba Discord in mid-January. There were two opposing schools of thought: one was that React was absolutely necessary to create such an application, the other was that it was completely possible to achieve the same results in vanilla HTML/CSS/JS.
Mykalimba set out to demonstrate how the game could be built using plain HTML, CSS & JavaScript. Here are a few key takeways:
βοΈ The project is built from scratch, with plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript
βοΈ The gameboard is built dynamically, using DOM manipulation techniques similar to what is taught in early modules of the Frontend Career Path course
βοΈ For the gameplay scripting and implementation of CSS animations, he drew on his experience as a career game developer.
βοΈ The current version does what he set out to accomplish, which is to demonstrate the ability of a vanilla CSS & JavaScript page to effectively animate game pieces in an application like this.
He hopes to iterate on this project in the future to include an improved UX/UI appearance, refactored game state code, the addition of an AI opponent, and adding the ability to play against a remote opponent!
In the meantime, check out the live deployment here!
What have you built this week? Share it with us in the π·i-built-this channel!
Fab Resource π
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βIn this post, Junaid talks about creating basic shapes in HTML & CSS. Many beginners face issues while working with CSS, so he has provided 10 CSS shapes that we can create easily!
Scrimba Podcast ποΈ
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Meet Trecia Kat πΏπ¦! Trecia is a new developer from South Africa who originally wanted to work in healthcare. She eventually decided to study IT, but she dropped out of college when it turned out that online resources were better! Today sheβs a front-end developer. She got her feet wet in the world of Developer Advocacy, she beat her social anxiety, and she even spoke at a conference!
βIn this episode, youβll learn why passion doesnβt mean youβll be great at something - and how to recognize what you can actually be great at. Trecia tells us how she learned to code, overcame her fear of interacting with people she doesnβt know, and landed her first developer job. Twitter was essential for Treciaβs journey - she will teach you how to use it to get out of your comfort zone and what Tech Twitter tropes to ignore. You will also hear about Treciaβs DevRel internship at Strapi and how she ended up speaking at a conference by trying not to speak at a conference.
Meme of the week π€‘
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Live Code Fun π
Next week, Leanne and Michael will code a timeline using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. By the end of the stream, we'll have an interactive timeline which displays dates and allows the the user to expand, add, and delete the information.
They will look at:
π°οΈ Rendering and styling the timeline
π°οΈ Displaying and expanding information on the timeline
π°οΈ Adding data
π°οΈ Removing data
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Wrap up πβ
Itβs time for your weekly dose of cuteness from #scrimba-pets!πΆπ±ππ
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Kamil's pup Kelly is livinβ the life on that beach!
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