Dec 24, 2020How I Used Vue JS to Make an RPG Game:A Guide to Starting Your Own Game — What to Think About First — Hello there, Medium! I’m Sean Yager, an artist and novice web dev using the internet to make all sorts of experimental websites and games. My most recent endeavor, “Moebius Dungeons” is a roguelike, dungeon crawler RPG based on a gameified book I published in 2018. “Moebius Dungeons” will be abbreviated…Web Development5 min read
Oct 2, 2020ACA 400 — Week 8So long, and thanks for all the phishing advice. — This last week of Coding Bootcamp felt great, it was a lot of self guided work. More than usual and the free reign over our capstone projects gave me the sense that I could finally call myself a Full Stack Web Developer. …Web Development4 min read
Sep 24, 2020ACA 400 — Week 7The fullest stack imaginable. — Discuss in words something you learned in class today or this week. We learned about the build step this week. It’s been a lot of progress leading up to this point. The Build step is one of my favorite parts of coding. …Web Dev Bootcamps2 min read
Sep 15, 2020ACA 400 Week 6Take “Action” in Redux — Discuss in words something you learned in class today or this week. Week 6 has been all about Thunk, a Redux middleware that allow us to asynchronously interact with the store. Without Thunk, a typical Redux store uses/dispatches “actions” to update date in the store. So what’s a thunk? As simple as it gets, a thunk is a function, wrapping an expression…Coding2 min read
Sep 10, 2020ACA 400 — Week 5 QuestionsRedux and React, a hard to learn, easy to follow structure. — React and Redux are great, together they make a fantastic development environment, that’s well structured and scale-able. React isn’t easy to learn as your first build tool, so if you’re unfamiliar with frameworks it’s going to take some hard work and dedication to learn the ins and outs. Discuss in words something you learned in class today or this week.Coding3 min read
Aug 31, 2020ACA 400 — Week 4 Interview QuestionsDiscuss in words something you learned in class today or this week. We covered React Router, something instrumental for Single Page Applications. React is wonderful for creating SPA, and to be able to provide navigable urls we need to use Routes. How does hoisting work in JavaScript? Hoisting is using data before it is declared in Javascript. That’s a simplistic definition but it might look something like this.Coding2 min read
Aug 31, 2020ACA 400 Week 3 Interview QuestionsDiscuss in words something you learned in class today or this week. Lifecycle hooks! I learned Vue before React, so I’m comparing them to Vue’s lifecycle hooks (like onMount, and beforeDetroy) to React’s componentDidMount, and componentWillUnmount. What is render() in React? Explain its purpose. Render is used in React to render to the DOM. In a component, functional or class based render is used to place the JSX into the…Coding2 min read
Aug 19, 2020ACA 400 — Week 2More interview questions! Here we go! Discuss in words (as opposed to discussing via interpretive dance) something you learned in class today or this week. This week we learned how to implement a fetch call in a React app. It’s pretty simple at a base level but I can see how it would become complicated as the app grows. Here’s an example of fetching .then() grabbing the json from…Coding3 min read
Aug 10, 2020Fullstack Bootcamp - React with ACAI’ve been keeping this blog for months now, answering questions and helping myself to understand the nuances of Javascript and web development. I’ll not delay this train any longer, here’s ACA 400 after class questions #1. What’s something you learned in class this week. Well, there’s a lot! The most prominent that jumps out in my mind is…Coding3 min read
Jul 24, 2020ACA 311 — Farewell SQL!300 level is finished and back end developing is under the belt. Granted, I have a lot to practice and learn but that’s a promise I’ll have to keep to myself. Back end is mysterious and powerful, much like the image to the left, it’s a waterfall that flows both…Development3 min read
