Date picker and time picker are a must when you are developing a professional Django application. Using it has 2 main advantages: Guarantees that the user will enter the data in the correct format Easy to user interface Date Picker is usually implemented with Javascript in Django, but HTML5 actually comes with a date picker element that can be implemented … [Read more...]
My First Web App (Backend Web Development)
This simply website is my first web app. It's written in Python using the Django framework connected to a mySQL database. Seeing it live on the internet gave me a buzz about the same size as making it on BuzzFeed! That's another story for another day. A 2 Year Journey Over the last 8 years I have built many feature-rich Wordpress websites. Since 2016 I want to progress … [Read more...]
Why I Chose Computer Science 101 Over Coding Bootcamp
I decided to learn to code last year, and I recently completed a CPSC 101 at University of Northern British Columbia. Yes, that was a first year university class full of teenagers. In one of the tutorials, I was paired up with a student who was extremely excited that she was about to turn 20 and all I can think about was how much I would be willing to pay to … [Read more...]
Progress Update: Learning Computer Science
I started learning computer science in January. For the last 3 months I have been taking CPSC 101 with teenagers (yup, first year university students), I thought it might be horrible... but it has been great! (More on that another time).Time Management Was ChallengingLearning a completely new topic in my 30's has been an interesting experience so far. The most challenging … [Read more...]