The Rubber Meets the Road

Fund.io Admin Dashboard

So, I'm in the 4th week here at Coder Camps. Time to post on the blog has become scarce, but we're moving forward on the Fund.io Admin Dashboard. Josh Thoyakulathu, my paired programming partner, and I have been working on a Flagged comments page that will be used by Admin users to approve or reject flagged comments from the front-end of the website.

The daily schedule we've adopted is:

• Stand-up meetings to coordinate what we've done and where we're going as a group
• Function writing practice
• Short, focused lectures
• Paired programming 

After that, we're on our own. I'm continuing to use the Pluralsight videos in addition to sites like Microsoft Developer Network & StackOverflow to fill in the gaps and as a goto for finding solutions to problems. Next up, learning how to create AJAX calls to populate our table on the fly. 

The deeper I get into this stuff, the more I realize how much actually goes on behind the scenes. Somewhere, behind all these magically delicious gadgets and gizmos of the web, are lines of code that someone wrote. My hat is off to these wizards. I hope they don't mind me standing on their shoulders.

Day One - Meet "The Stack"

ASP.NET MVC Stack

Day One of Coder Camps was a whirlwind introduction into the language, tools and projects we'll be working on. Our group will be developing the admin dashboard & tools for an up-and-coming crowdfunding site called Fund.io.

I'd write more, but I'm busy finishing up my assignment: Write three functions in C#, one that will calculate the area of a circle (given the radius), one that calculates the circumference of a circle (given the radius), and one that will return the reverse of a string (ex. "What?" into "?tahW").

Edited 11:04pm - Finally finished the assignment: http://ideone.com/Fe7k8p