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joshkolade:
I receive the invitation for interview... i also schedule the date.. is the interview based on html or java script or what.. Pls I only have a shot at this .........help out!!!!!!! O.o

The interview is more like a sit down chat (not the whatsapp kind oo) as they basically want to get to know you better. Just be calm, confident and show an eagerness to learn.

Nmeri17:
are these fine babes coders too or they just come like the cheerleaders in basketball

Everyone is a programmer regardless of gender.

Rest: Sometimes taking a break is all it takes to solve that complex problem

Find a hobby: Don't break down while coding like a junkie, learn how to play a musical instrument, go out with friends, watch a movie or something

Nice one @op

Nairalander01:
I was thinking we were still in June

Good to know. I hope to apply for the September edition then

Please do.

At what stage of the interview do get to tested based on the home study materials provided??

They might or might not ask questions based on the homestudy materials but during bootcamp, you'll surely be tested as you have to improve upon that knowledge.

That's great. After the bootcamp whats their criteria for selecting those who would undergo the 4 years paid training??. Is there anything like an exam done at the end of the bootcamp??

Everyone does a final project and has to present and defend their given project. After that, there is another round of interview done but this is mainly to ascertain your availability for the four years program. It's all cool though.

Craigston:
Please don't be a troll. Whether they copy codes or not, they'll have to tailor it to this problem. And the organizer can create a check for that by requiring an in-depth explanation of the logics used.
Whatever be the case, the competitors will learn something (new or not), whether it be how the already existing, copied program works or the technicalities involved in creating one themselves.
Moreover, it's not about the money: it's the spirit that drives us.
I wish I could attempt this. I'm yet a beginner in web development but I'll grow fast and continuously.
Thanks Seun; you've just given me more encouragement.
Dhtml18, cbrass, jregs, dwebdesign, kodejuice, fincoapps, thewebcraft, charleen94, gearcoin, cbtgeek, blueyedgeek, directonpc, bowofolu, subset; do something na.

Bro, this one wey u mention me with all those people so, you must think me a guru of some sorts when in reality I'm in the same shoes as you. Really started Javascript November of 2014 and started with HTML and CSS March of 2014 all last year. While my progress has been meteoric (I like meteor.js and I just wanted to use that word in a sentence), I still am not an expert yet, I'm merely just an advanced beginner. Wish oga Seun would give challenges better suited for the up and coming (I might start something like this sef for people like us)

Mastering Javascript won't come just by reading a few books bro, yes it would make you quite knowledgeable on the theoretical side of things but in order to truly master any language, you have to deliberately practice.

Deliberate practice is different from just practice, by practicing you are staying in your comfort zone and honing already existing skills but deliberate practice involves going out of your comfort zone and into your learning zone once again.

For book suggestions:

* You don't know Javascript by Kyle Simpson (it's a series of books actually, just Google it)

* High performance Javascript (can't remember the author's name, Google it sha)

* Secrets of the Javascript ninja by John Resig

* Search for Eric Elliot's book on Javascript (I can't remember the name right now)

* Pro Javascript for Web Apps

* Human Javascript (it's an online book, Google it)

About finding it hard to start a project, that could be something else entirely. Before starting out on any project, you must be able to clearly identify what you are trying to do, lemme tell you about the 4 p's of problem solving (you can adapt it to starting a project)

Preparation

Planning

Performance

Perfection (doesn't mean said project would be perfect though, there is no such thing)

The main point is starting a project boils down to clearly identifying what you are trying to do and then working from there.

About being unable to solve coding challenges, don't let this bug you down, instead of pulling yourself down, search for solutions to said coding challenges and study them until you understand how to implement them yourself. Might I suggest http://codewars.com for practicing and improving on solving coding challenges.

By the way, I just started learning Ruby in order to get better at Javascript (odd right?)

So, did you get the internship position?

@toystars, great news, I got accepted to become an Andela fellow and I resume on my birthday (beta by-day gift). Hope to meet you in person soon.

dhtml18:
^^^No wonder you are now so good with JavaScript! You have become a JavaScript authority yourself. . . .

Now that is what we call bo-bo-ing of the highest order. I am no authority on Javascript, that is left for guys like Douglas Crockford, John Resig and Brendan Eich. I am still a novice bro. I still look up to you sef as per se na you be oga.

Icecream4U:
were you in the python class or javascript class?

Javascript

Nairalander01:
I visited the link above and there's an ongoing registration(ends on 19th of next month) and I guess that's not the one blueyegeek is currently on.

It's actually 19th of this month bro and you are right, mine just ended.

How many times do they have these boot camps.

It comes up every month.

After applying, how do they conduct their interview: Oral or written. Online or offline??

The interview is like 3 stages, first a profile assessment is done online and then you have to take an online test on html, css and Javascript and if you scale through, you are invited for a sit down chat/one-to-one interview (more like a chat for me though) and after that you are invited for bootcamp.

I don't stay in Lagos but I'll like to attend the next boot camp, I really need tips on what to expect at interview and bootcamp proper.

In the bootcamp that just ended, we had like two guys who weren't staying in Lagos but still found a way to attend so trust me when I say it's really worth it. This ten days has really changed the way I think and impacted me a lot. Andela is not a job, it is a mission to bring Africa to the forefront, it's a mission of true change (not all those campaign versions)

hisabimbola:
yeah

Imagine oo. Which of the bootcamp classes did you participate in? I'm still in bootcamp (class X to be precise) and we are trained at the main campus for the time being.

cammyjr:
Hi People , this is my third time applying to andela , been unsuccessful twice , I just finished the javascript homestudy tutorials today. How far have you all gone with your homestudy curriculum ?

codecademy is a step in the right direction but you mustn't stop there. There are other resources online that you must use to supplement your knowledge.

Pick up a book on the subject and read as much as possible, one other important thing is to actually write code and build stuff as much as possible.

A logical next step would be to complete the curriculum at javascriptissexy.com (just search for learn Javascript properly).

Also, do not be too bothered about the amount of times you have applied, I too applied twice previously but got called this third time. Do not give up, just keep at it, you will know that it's all worth it, Andela is really worth it.

Ramos16:
Please oh, do you happen to know a guy called Benjamin in the boot-camp? I need to get to him, I lost my phone

nope

hisabimbola:
Great job, let's see on Monday in amity.

Are you a fellow?

paranorman:
thanks.. You wrote about not using event listeners as attributes. Discuss.

By tying your event listeners to your html, you've basically locked it to that page that it appears on and it can't be re-used. If you decided to change the name of your function, you would change it both in the javascript and the html.

There's a software principle known as separation of concern and it posits that the layers that make up a web page should be kept separate from each other. Keep html as html, css as css and javascript as javascript, heck even your server side stuff should be on it's own as well. You just have to write your code in such a way that it allows all parts to interact without getting in each others way.

Use html to link to your css file, also use html to link to your javascript files and use those files to connect with the html using hooks from the html.

Things like class names, ids, data-attributes are there for your usage.

paranorman:
recommend any comprehensive book on javascript I can read out?

Sorry, I wasn't able to reply earlier. Search for proffesional javascript for web developers. It's for both beginners and experts alike and it's the most understandable and comprehensive book I've come across.

Well, I guess for Christians who want to be well prepared, it's just a matter of closing all your bank accounts and moving your cash under your bed in preparation for rapture. The Lord grant you all wisdom in these times of the triple six.

toystars:
Guys, how has bootcamp been so far?

Yesterday, an hackathon took place at the main campus (building cool stuff using Uber's api) and today we'll be working with apis as well.

The bootcamp has been really exciting, sitting in a class with 16 (not accounting for those that were taken to the python class) eager coders (fine babes included) really makes you push yourself. Everyday, I wake up, I'm always excited to get to bootcamp. It's really fast paced though.

I love the improv sessions as well.

@op, adding event listeners as html attributes is considered bad practice. Ever heard about separation of concerns?

dhtml18:
If you type in "regex" as the working text, it will match. . . . . . .this is because you have a logical error on line 8


. . .which i have altered below to eval('var regexRE= /'+regex+'/g;');
plus i also removed the nairaland smiles

So in essence, the proper working code should be:

I've read books that recommend that eval be avoided at all costs since it messes with the scope and is also a security hazard since it can be used to evaluate expressions as strings. Why did you decide to use eval?

I won't be updating for a while due to a few engagements but I do hope that this thread will continue.

AAinEqGuinea:
1) background color of the menu to match site's color theme? See below.

2) The main pic becomes cropped on mobile your decision: it's either tolerating the Img crop or potentially have aspect bars if either max-height or max-width media queries properties becomes botched on certain mobile devices.... no biggie... looks good

1. The background is meant to complement the site's color theme actually. It is the second color on the logo.
2. I just gave the background size a value of cover so it takes care of resizing the image as it should.

Jregz:
yeah...why design the footer like that for mobiles, looks a little bit too long...


hmm,nice job though.......

I just decided to stack those links on top of each other and that's why it looks that long, looks better that way on mobile.

dhtml18:
I wonder too because I was like wow, when I saw the UI. . .maybe he wants to make the UI dance and sing. . . . . .

Dance and sing bawo? hehehe..... coming from you, highly appreciated.

By the way, you have moved your tutorial again, remember this is what you did with your JavaScript tutorial as well, kept moving it until people lost interest.

Nmeri17:
I wonder what else u wanno accomplish in ui

Believe me, the user interface is what your end users uses to judge your brand 9 out of 10 times. If it looks good and functions well, then you are doing something right.

guente02:
Boy.
I'm definitely going to get to this level.
Viewed it on my mobile device (ucweb) and to me its futuristic and quite noticeably simple. Keep it up.

Thanks, comment appreciated.

BUILDING A WEB PROJECT FROM START TO FINISH

If there are questions, please ask them here and I will do my best to answer them all.

I'll be giving a break down of some of the decisions I took for the page.

BUILDING A WEB PROJECT FROM START TO FINISH

We are finally done with our project and it's up online

Here's a link to the live version of our project:

http://b it.ly/1epMcdq (Please copy, paste and then remove the spaces. Nairaland cuts off some parts of the link)

BUILDING A WEB PROJECT FROM START TO FINISH

Screen shots from mobile view attached

By the way, I used opera mobile emulator for testing it out on mobile.

Jregz:
I'm not into SASS, not really into front end development, I'm more of a backend guy.........

hmm,I do know normalize.css ,I'd look into this some other time, I use zurb foundation though

Foundation is cool as well. They have some of the best designers on their team

BUILDING A WEB PROJECT FROM START TO FINISH

All done!!! Yipee!!!

Screen shots for mobile view attached.

Let's get it up online so that we can all interact with it