A whole Week1 Week2 Week3 four weeks has passed since I began my programming journey at the Recurse Center!
Ok. Here is what happened on the fourth week.
Day 22
- I started working on a chrome extension.
- The idea I have so far is to make an extension that allows me to email myself a link of the current tab that I’m on.
- I paired with Carolina. We worked on editing each other’s RC jobs profile page, which was really helpful.
Day 23
- I got sidetracked and started working on a blog idea that I had for a while. I love learning from really awesome videos like this one on Git by Mary Rose Cook.
- It’s going to be a simple video blog that curates awesome videos like Mary’s. (open to suggestions!)
- I continued to watch a udemy course on data structures and algorithms.
Day 24
- I resumed working on my chrome extension. I’m finding out that sending an email from an extension requires a lot of intermediary steps.
- First we have register an application on google’s console to get a client id and set up OAuth. Then I found out that OAuth doesn’t actually work the same way in the context of a chrome extension. So I started looking at Chrome’s API, which has the chrome.identity functionality to authenticate a user. That’s where I am currently.
- I attended JS/Webstack topic of the week where I presented what I learned so far about chrome extension.
- I will post a blog about chrome extensions by the end of the week.
Day 25
- Attended my first RC Job fair.
- Although I feel like I’m not ready yet to apply to jobs I still had some good conversations with some of the companies.
- I especially liked Mapbox, because i love maps! and Teachers Pay Teachers, because it’s a great idea and mission!
Day 26
- I finished and published Basics of Chrome Extension.
- Worked some more on data structures and algorithms.