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By the end of this sprint I felt like I was walking on a nice paved street when all of a sudden I just fell into a hole and couldn't climb back up. Let me explain what happened. The sprint started off at a good pace we built on what we learned the previous two… Continue reading Lambda School – iOS Development Bootcamp – Week 3 & 4
I am a firm believer that to better understand something, you should try to explain it to others. So this is my attempt in explaining the perform segue function. I know the big picture of what it is and what it does, but the inner workings of it had me mystified.
If you are considering attending a bootcamp, Lambda in particular follow me as I blog about my experience there. I am doing the iOS development course and have just finished my first 2 weeks there. Read to find out how it went.
What's next after tutorials and building projects? I think that it's making contributions to open source projects. I have no idea how to do it, but I want to and that is motivation enough to figure out how and to actually do it. Follow me as I learn how to do so.
Have you ever had a brilliant idea super early in the morning. I just did. I have been wanting to work on an actual personal project that didn't come from a tutorial but didn't know what to make. Finally it came to me. Read about my idea and follow along as I continue to build it from an idea to an actual working app.
Working on react these past few weeks I have to warn you that before you move on to the React make sure you are comfortable working with the following concepts. The reason I am saying this is because I learned this the hard way. I knew Javascript or so I thought. I knew V5 of… Continue reading Before you dive into React learn a few more Javascript items.
Let's create a simple form where all it does is take the submission and displays it. Yes it sounds simple but there is a lot going on where it can get confusing. But once you get the basics down then everything else that has to do with a form is just an extension of this.… Continue reading Creating a form with React
As if working on the functionality of an web application wasn't enough, you are also expected to style it and make it look nice. I had the hardest time figuring out the easiest but also the "appropriate" way of doing so. Searching around the internet I couldn't find something to tell me this is the… Continue reading Styling a React App
There's a lot going on with a component that we don't realize, but before we get into it we need to discuss a term and that is mounting. You might remember from our initial discussion on React that React works with virtual DOMs that update the real DOM as needed. Mounting is the process of converting… Continue reading Lifecycle of a Component in React
State in React: Sounds easy in theory but can be a bit complicated to implement. #MomsCanCode #Codergirls #WomenInTech #TechLadies #LearnReact
Claudia Maciel 