Brenna O’Brien
I am a front-end web developer with a background in math and physics. I’ve taught several day long workshops on HTML/CSS and JavaScript through Ladies Learning Code, and I’m gearing up to teach a...
View ArticleConcept Map: Objects in JavaScript
Since my background in in web programming, I decided to tackle the concept of objects in JavaScript. This assumes the learner has a familiarity with basic programming fundamentals (i.e. variables and...
View ArticleAssessment Questions: Objects in JavaScript
Pre-lesson question Given the following code, var dinner = { appetizer: "salad", main: "chicken", side: "rice" }; how would you output the ‘main’ property from the ‘dinner’ object? a)...
View ArticleMotivating novice web developers to learn Git and GitHub
In the front-end web development course I’m teaching right now, teaching Git and GitHub took far longer than we expected. We were trying to teach command line basics, how to initialize a repo etc., but...
View ArticleScreencast: How to Fork A GitHub Repo
My screencast goes over the process of forking a GitHub repo and setting up that fork on your local machine. http://youtu.be/W_wydNpHlLE I had originally intended to go over the entire workflow of...
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