GitHub
I told myself that I would learn GitHub by the end of the weekend! I am always learning new things everyday on my journey to become a Web Developer, and GitHub is no exception. From my understanding, GitHub is a website that allows you to save your work, code, and ideas with other developers and coders. GitHub also allows others to contribute to your code as well as you contribute to others! Though I've only done the task "Hello-World" at this point, I can still see the benefits that this website has to offer. I enjoy the fact that if I needed help or suggestions with my code, I can easily post it on GitHub and receive feedback from the community.
I don't know EVERYTHING that GitHub has to offer, but I know enough to ensure that this is a tool I need to learn to use with ALL my future projects. I've learned that a key thing that a lot of developers use GitHub day in and day out. If I'm going to become a developer myself, this is ESSENTIAL!
jQuery
Alongside learning GitHub over the weekend, I decided to get more in-depth with jQuery. I've already had some experience with jQuery in some lessons I've done on "Free Code Camp" and other projects through my spare time. So, I decided to progress with it over the weekend to learn as much as I can possibly learn. This thing called "jQuery" is AMAZING. It's a library filled with pre-coded JavaScript and it can make things a whole lot easier on someone new like me. Since I've learned JavaScript, learning jQuery has been a breeze. I've already completed a lot of jQuery on a few sites and it has been one of the most interesting necessities I have come across thus far! I look forward to learning more and more jQuery as I progress with my journey to becoming a developer!
BootStrap
An hour before I was getting ready for bed, I did the worst thing possible. I looked up "Twitter BootStrap", or "BootStrap" for short. Let me tell you guys, it was both the right and the wrong thing to do. It's one of those circumstances to where you've got something planned out, and then something so interesting captures your attention that the plans you've already had, went out the window. That is exactly what happened when I discovered BootStrap over the weekend. I was about to go to bed, and upon discovering it, I may have went to bed a few hours later than I intended to.....BootStrap is another tool, similar to jQuery, where it's pre-developed code and elements that can be used on a website. I went to "GetBootStrap.com" and spent a lot of time playing around with the different styles of elements that they had to offer, along with trying them out on my test html pages that I have created. From navigation bars to buttons on your page, BootStrap has quite the selection to choose from. It's like getting a jumpstart on building a website. I see a lot of BootStrap in my future!!
Conclusion
I've learned a lot over the course of just a few days. I've learned to use my code to collaborate with other developers and coders across the world using GitHub. I've gotten in touch with the amazing jQuery library full of JavaScript that's already been coded. Lastly I've gotten hooked on the resourcefulness of Twitter BootStrap which was created to make my life easier. I'm sure I'll be using these resources a lot in the future, but I am still perfecting the fundamentals and the roots of these useful tools. I can't wait to see what this week has in store for me!!!
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