I’m pretty satisfied with my progress given how much I was struggling last week. The interactive resume is definitely not optimum by any means. There are a lot of bugs, mostly dealing with screen resolution, and positioning of Harry not being correct in relation with the background. There’s definitely a better way to go about this, but I’m fighting an inner debate between getting this done, and taking the time I may not have to make sure it’s perfect. I want to get everything working first, then tweak it, and that’s the preliminary goal for now.

Last night, I was able to get Harry to start being animated while in motion. It’s not as smooth as I would like, but it’s a start. In the mean time, I’m learning a lot more in regards to jQuery. Initially, for the a/A curriculum, there wasn’t a large focus on jQuery, only enough to understand the concepts of DOM manipulation and AJAX request, so everything related to accessing CSS properties, and animating are fairly new to me, and I’m thoroughly enjoying the process.

That’s pretty much it for progress on my project yesterday.

Yesterday was also starting the algorithms and data structures lecture, and we started off with learning general mathematical functions that you’d need as a programmer, then we went into Big O notation and how to identify the Big O of various methods. It was a great to learn more CS topics.

That’s pretty much it for today, off to lunch!