Bootcamp was completed in three modules. Each module ended with a project week, where we built a web app from scratch using the learned technologies. At the end of project week, we would present our creation to an audience. Here’s what I came up with.
Module 1: Front-End Web Development — HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap
Module 2: Back-End MEAN Stack — MongoDB, Mongoose, Express.js, Handlebars, Angular, Node.js, API’s
Module 3: Full Stack Web Application
Urban hiking, London edition. Taking sketch breaks along the way.
And then I went to Paris:
Final project week!
In module three we wrap it all together and build a full stack application.
To help foragers find edible weeds, fruits, and other wild flora in and around their city, as well as share their findings with other foragers, I created weedmapper.
I used Illustrator to plan things out before coding:
When searching by location, you see pins on the map, posted by foragers and knowledgeable plant lovers in your community. The pins are clickable and their contents show in list form on the left side as well.
There are plenty of opportunities for FIU Landscape Architecture students to use what they’ve learned, or supplement their learning, by participating in community projects.
Last summer we began the initial scheming and strategizing for a butterfly garden at Carlow Park in Westchester, across the highway from FIU. While I’m no longer in Miami, the butterfly garden was completed this summer.
My involvement was in the initial planning; deciding how to lay it out and what trees, shrubs
The best week so far. Combined everything we’ve learned up to this point (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MongoDB, Node.js) and paired up with another classmate to build a full-stack web application.
I’ve had this idea for a while now, to make my landscape design life easier. The goal is to be able to search for plants by location, filter by desired plant type (tree, shrub, flowers, etc.) and return a list of most-recommended plants for your specific area or site. Still a work in progress, but fulfilled requirements for this module.
Oh by the way we won “gold medal” for the best project.
Week three means the end of module one, and the creation of project one — coding a game using our newly acquired front-end skills. I’m not much of a gamer, in fact I don’t give a crap about games, but I do like card games alright. And so I replicated one, and further developed my JavaScript skills in the meantime. I introduce you to HackJack.
Module one was ridiculously fast-paced. We learned how to set up the development environment and dug deep into the fundamentals of responsive front-end design with HTML, CSS, Javascript and jQuery.
Good thing there’s free beer on the rooftop every day at 5.
