Daniel Defstar

Relearning life and learning how to be a Dev (in my 40's).

[Daniel Defstar @dandefstar]

That's all part of the mistakes I made.

I plan to write about my experience with those first 100 Days, and the things I will now take into consideration.

For now, I'm just happy to be back, in good health and spirit.

[Daniel Defstar @dandefstar]

Been gone for a while. I managed to finish my #100DaysOfCode but I was halfway learning JS so I didn't have a final project or certificate to show for it. Also, I didn't log those last days so in my mind, it doesn't count...

[Daniel Defstar @dandefstar]

End of the school year: exams, grading and COVID. Not done, but almost... Wanted to get the 100 Days before all this, but it is what it is.

Once I'm done with the 100 Days I'm starting another 100 Days for the Summer Break.

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It's the end of an era, I love Atom, and sure most of us use Visual Studio Code as our daily driver, but I always kept Atom installed and regularly used it to check project files and do some light coding.

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

GitHub sunsets Atom, the software dev environment it launched in 2011 https://t.co/iCZ2tADZBr by @kyle_l_wiggers

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@saartwts Thank you! And yes, let's

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Day 92 of #100DaysOfCode
Practiced some ES10 changes:
- .flat()
- .flatMap
- .trimStart()
- .trimEnd()
- Object.entries()
- Object.fromEntries()

Also practiced For of and For in Loops to drive home the difference between Iterating and Enumerating.

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Day 91 (today 6/4/2022) of #100DaysOfCode

I've been practicing with the changes brought by ES7 and ES8:

- .includes method for strings and arrays.

- exponential operator.

- String padding with padStart, padEnd.

- Object type methods with Object.values and Object.entries.

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Day 90 (also not posted by app but saved in drafts) of #100DaysOfCode
Continuing with Advances Objects learning about Pass by Reference and Pass by Value, cloning objects with Object.assign() and the Spread operator. Learned about Shallow and Deep Cloning and Type Coercion.

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Day 89 (was saved in drafts it didn't get posted by my phone app) of #100DaysOfCode
Did some exercises primitive vs reference data types. Also, scope vs context, using this, instantiation with classes, constructors objects, and use of extends, super and new.

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Day 88 of #100DaysOfCode
I've been doing some exercises with Closures, Currying and Compose.

Also getting on friendly terms with arrays using map, filter, and reduce.

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Day 87 of #100DaysOfCode
Learning some more Advanced JavaScript.

This time around I've been learning and doing some exercises on Advanced Objects, Pass By Value vs Pass By Reference, Type Coercion, Async Await, Advanced Loops in the context of ES7 - ES9 and ES2020 - ES2021.

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Day 86 of #100DaysOfCode
Learning more Advanced Javascript.

Today I worked on some Scope, Advanced Control Flow, Functions, Objects and Loops exercises and... OMG! what's this? There's ES7, ES8, ES9, ES10, ES2020 and 2021... So interesting to see how JS keeps evolving.

[Daniel Defstar @dandefstar]

The exercise was:
1. The color inputs must match the background on page load.
2. Display the initial CSS linear gradient property on page load.
3. BONUS: Add a random button which generates two random numbers for the color inputs.

#100DaysOfCode #ZeroToMastery

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Day #85 of #100DaysOfCode

Continuing @AndreiNeagoie Complete Web Developer course, DOM Section, I worked on the Background Generator exercise, most of the code was given, but I added my solutions to the challenge.

Check it out here
https://t.co/rPx9MNFbhs

[Daniel Defstar @dandefstar]

If you're still with me, thank you for your patience. I'm well and back home.
Ready to continue my journey.

[Daniel Defstar @dandefstar]

Sorry for my absence these past days, I've been dealing with some problems that have made it difficult for me to keep my normal coding schedule and routine.

I trust everything will work itself out soon, can't wait to be back at it, I miss coding.

#100DaysOfCode

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@ffffffffail @100xcode

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Day 84 of #100DaysOfCode
Been busy with #GoogleIO so many cool news, products and info.

I finished the simple To-Do app using basic JavaScript and DOM (and some help from Stack Overflow).

Here it is w/o styling https://t.co/XgJkXt74XF

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@razal__kabeer @100xcode Here's the Code Pen, I left it without any styling, but it's functional
https://t.co/XgJkXt74XF

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Day 83 of #100DaysOfCode
Putting together what I've learned so far (and specially using JS + DOM manipulation) I've been building a To-Do List app.

Very cliché, I know, but challenging enough for a newbie.

[Daniel Defstar @dandefstar]

@CodeGrittin I'm learning myself, but if you need anything and if I can actually help you (or point you to where or what I think might help you) I will.

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Day 81 of #100DaysOfCode
I had the Zero To Mastery Complete Web Developer Udemy course, I once tried to do it and stopped because JS was so confusing.
I tried it again today to test myself and I'm happy to say I breezed through Section 11 JavaScript, it was so easy.