I got the problem fixed from last Friday and was ready to take the Yellow Belt test. The group decided to meet in Sunnyvale to study since it was cheaper than paying for parking in downtown San Jose. For the test I had to design a representation of a randomly generated website from scratch. It was kind of like the assignments I'd done the first week. I had hoped to use Bootstrap to facilitate the setup but in the morning I got an email from the instructor telling me not to use it. After using Bootstrap for a week I had a hard time going back to coding from scratch. It was very difficult to keep the columns in each row align and the texts were always too big. It took me an hour to figure out the correct display setting for the columns before one of my classmates wrote a line that fixed it. I finished in under 3 hours. I'll find out my results on Monday. With any luck that'll be the last time I create a webpage without any frameworks.
When that was over I jumped back the jQuery chapter and the topic of the day, jQuery UI. jQuery UI is a buildup from jQuery that provides GUI (graphic user interface) features. With it users can have a more interactive experience in websites such as moving objects around, sorting, and monitoring progression through a progress bar. Setting that up was really easy after going through the jQuery material and I felt good about the assignments. The API is a little harder to read than jQuery's but it'll become clearer as I move to more complicated assignments.
This is my last weekend before the onsite lecture begins. I have to spend tomorrow finishing up the last jQuery UI assignments before I cover the last chapters of wireframes. I'm worried that I won't have enough time at the end. I haven't skipped over any parts so far and most of my work has been done wholeheartedly. I would hate to make compromises this close to the start date.
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