iteles/learning

A repo for various exercises as I'm learning new technologies

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Build a Bank Statement CLI Application With Elixir

Following on from #17, a 45 minute walkthrough of building an Elixir app.

Get it whilst it's free! ;)

Something like this...?

https://github.com/una/personal-goals

Joy of Elixir

Mentioned by @YvesMuyaBenda in this issue: dwyl/learn-elixir#55

Looks like a gentle introduction (still only 30% complete).

Linked to #15, worth investing 3 pomodoros to determine what this work in progress is like before moving on to https://pragprog.com/book/elixir/programming-elixir

Learning Elm

Why?

I want to get back into improving my coding skills every day. So why start with Elm?

• Part of the [dwyl tech stack[(https://github.com/dwyl/technology-stack)
• A great way to learn functional programming
• Concise language (becoming even more concise with v0.19) which will help my motivation
• Excellent debugger which makes for ease of learning
• Great documentation

I've found that often I am going through a tutorial and if I have no questions (i.e. no need to open issues), it's difficult to show myself that I am making progress. This issue should help with that.

Gotta be unafraid of being a beginner.

Resources to go through

So many people have done the work to synthesise knowledge before me. This list will be continuously added to:

• https://github.com/dwyl/learn-elm-architecture-in-javascript
• https://github.com/dwyl/learn-elm
• https://github.com/dwyl/learn-elm-architecture-in-javascript a 2nd time
  • Review the whole tutorial again 🐜
  • Do multiple counters exercise 💪
  • Do to-do list exercise! ⛰

PostCSS - Why is everyone talking about it?

http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/tutorials/postcss-deep-dive-what-you-need-to-know--cms-24535

[hapi-edge] stubbing modules

Research the right way of stubbing modules so that things like:

var Api = require('./api');
var Authentication = require('./authentication');
var Controllers = require('./controllers');
var Models = require('./models');
var Routes = require('./routes')

don't cause an issue in the beginning.

I'm just commenting them out until they exist so the server runs but unfortunately the hapi-edge book starts with these in chapters 2 and 3 so nothing runs until you comment them out (not very beginner friendly).

Learn Elixir :tada:

In light of https://github.com/dwyl/technology-stack/ , I need to learn elixir and phoenix so that I know what's going on in our organisation.

Plan:

• dwyl/learn-elixir
• Elixir School
  • 1. Basics
  • 2. Collections
  • 3. Enum
  • 4. Pattern Matching
  • 5. Control Structures
  • 6. Functions
  • 7. Pipe Operator
  • 8. Modules
  • 9. Mix
  • 10. Sigils
  • 11. Documentation
  • 12. Testing
  • 13. Comprehensions
  • 14. Strings
  • 15. Custom Mix Tasks
  • 16. IEx Helpers
  • Advanced Topics tbc

IPFS protocol

https://proto.school/#/

Would be good to go through this before https://www.meetup.com/opo-js/events/256434646/ so I can come in with some knowledge and ask questions.

Images issue

Where else would I put them? 😋

Ally

This might interest you: https://github.com/addyosmani/a11y 😉

CodeSchool Mixing it up with Elixir

This weekend, all CodeSchool courses are free, so I plan to try out https://www.codeschool.com/courses/mixing-it-up-with-elixir

This should give me a little boost because it uses active examples throughout and examples are how I learn best.

[time-html-mockups] Refactor so I don't pull in the Font Awesome CDN

This is just an extra stylesheet full of unnecessary stuff.

Using @font-face & http://jsfiddle.net/4Rakx/87/? Or scrap font-awesome and figure out how to use icons as background-urls in such a way that they don't pixelise when on a retina display?

APIs and GraphQL

https://services.github.com/on-demand/graphql/