ABOUT
Coming from a background of creative writing, in January 2016 I enrolled for the Treehouse Front End Web Developers (FEWD) Techdegree course and passed the final exam twelve months later in December of the same year. The certificate can be viewed here. Before that I had first started learning to code in July 2015.
According to Treehouse, the target of the course is meant to train the student in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and full Responsive Design, and students are urged to avoid using frameworks like Bootstrap, Foundation and Skeleton in the projects even though they may end up using them professionally later, but the thrust of the course is to teach the student to be able to implement designs with their own knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. (Treehouse Techdegree 2016).
I am currently ready to take up employment as a Junior Front End Web Developer.
I am also studying for an undergraduate degree in Computer Science online with the University of the People (USA based and accredited). I am currently in the first semester of the second year(September 2017 - September 2018)
Previously I studied for a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Communication Science with the University of South Africa (UNISA) from 2006 to 2007 (two years), but dropped off before I could finish because of financial challenges
PROJECTS
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Web App Dashboard
In this project, following a provided mockup, I used HTML and CSS to build a web dashboard with JavaScript-driven charts and graphs.
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Online Registration Form
In this project I built a responsive, mobile-friendly registration form using a variety of HTML form input types and attributes.
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Interactive Photo Gallery
In this project I built an interactive photo gallery using JavaScript and jQuery with a search area plus a lightbox.
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Interactive Video Player
In this project, I built an HTML5 video player using JavaScript and the HTML5 Video API whose transcript is synchronized to the audio.
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Accessibility Refactor
For this project I modified provided website files for the rock band “Accessible Frog" to improve the site's accessibility for users.
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Public API Gallery
In this project I built a photo gallery that can grab images from a public API using AJAX, and I grabbed from the Flickr API.
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CSS To SASS
For this project I converted a given CSS stylesheet to SASS using partials, variables, extends and mixins.
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SVG Site Update
For this project I optimized a given web page by applying SVG’s to it and further learning how to animate them.
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Private Project:Portfolio
This project is part of several portfolio websites that I have been developing for visual artists.
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SKILLS
Listed below are my skills, but since January 2017 I have also been teaching myself Java as I want to increase my knowledge of programming languages.
- HMTL
- JavaScript
- jQuery
- Vue.js
- SASS
- Gulp