Funding FujoCoded: Stretch Goals!
It’s time! With our first goal met (🎉 thank you!), let’s talk about stretch goals. We have quite a few planned, so we're going to go through them one by one and explain what they are and why we chose them!
Before we go down the list, here's something fun:
Sticker Unlock: At 45 backers, we also unlocked one more sticker!
The goal of our campaign is to cover business expenses most of all. The unlocked content is an extra token of gratitude for your support that also helps us meet our own targets!
With that said, let's get to our stretch goals...
$4,000:
"That's Why I Ship On Company Time" Ao3 Sticker
At $4,000 we'll unlock one more sticker design that you can add to your collection!
Our first version of this "shipping" sticker features VSCode and a terminal, but there's more than one type of shipping... here's to the other one!
$5,000:
"Using NPM with Javascript" Article
Next up, we have our first article. Our plan is to add an Articles section to @fujowebdev where we'll collect simple, free guides to help beginners get past the roadblocks we see them encounter!
This first one will cover the basics of NPM, a core element of modern JavaScript!
"How do I install this JavaScript library? How do I run this open source JavaScript project? How can I get started creating my blog using a tool like @astrodotbuild?" are some of the most common questions we get in our Fandom Coders server.
Let's give *everyone* the answer!
$6,000:
Offering Website Art Prints
Next up, we'll turn the excellent art on our website into prints! These will be (probably) 8x10-sized art prints that will look amazing without breaking the bank. Full specs soon!
...and speaking of the site, you have tried moving the windows, right?
$7,000:
"Catching Up With Terminal" Article
Next, another common issue for beginner developers: how to start learning how to handle the Terminal.
This will require some research to determine the major roadblocks, which is how our project operates: active learning from those going through it all!
$8,000:
"Crucial Confrontations" Article
And last (for now), something very dear to us: an article extracting some wisdom from the book "Crucial Confrontations": https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Confrontations-Resolving-Promises-Expectations/dp/0071446524
This may seem like an unusual choice, but it highlights how our teaching goals go beyond programming to cover collaboration!
After years of working within our community, we repeatedly found that developing effective communication and confrontation skills helps our collaborators thrive. Unfortunately, the world doesn't teach us how to effectively (but kindly) hold each other accountable.
Some of our most involved collaborators have read this book and found the tools within it transformative. Given this experience, we deeply believe that making some of this wisdom easily accessible (without having to read the full book) will allow all of us to collaborate better!
If we can reach $8,000, this will enable us to test this hypothesis and learn how teaching soft skills beyond programming influences what we're able to achieve! It's a bold idea, but we're excited to see how it turns out in practice.
Help us make it there!
And that's all...for now!
If you want to hop on Twitch right now, you can join us as we put some extra polish on our shiny new FujoCoded website.
And remember, you can back our campaign here to help us achieve these goals and more:
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Build Your Own npm Package!
Hiya! @kitkatcodes made a post a couple days ago essentially her making her own npm package and I thought it was super cool! I've been busy lately but I gave myself some time to read the tutorial she used and play around making my own!
Link to @kitkatcodes post >> LINK
The npm package
Here it is! Took me 3 hours to do this because I got the concept of how to make the package following the tutorial @kitkatcodes used (which is this: LINK) but then I got around playing around with the colours and appearance, as I do~! Then I finally finished and published it!
The main code
Have a go!
If you have Node.js installed, in the terminal, type:
1. npm i xiacodes-business-card
2. npx xiacodes
Then you should see the output shown above!
Well, that's all! I had fun making this and thanks again to @kitkatcodes for the initial post! It's super easy to do and fun! Here are some links:
GitHub repo: LINK
My npm package page: LINK
The ASCII art site: LINK
The package to add colours to the output text: LINK
Have a nice day and happy coding! 💗💻
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My First Project after a mini coding hiatus
I'm back in the coding game. And back to hoping that I can make a future for myself in programming. After a fun bout of imposter syndrome and doubting my abilities while dealing with algorithms and such, I decided to go ahead and create a clone of Wordle. It works just fine. Might make a unique version of the game and post that at a later date. But for right now, this was a fun reintroduction to some basic concepts I learned in the last year.
If anyone has any suggestions for a project, please feel free to throw them my way. Or a challenge of any sort.
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Npm Mini Projects #1
Wednesday 14th June 2023
Hiya! A new project that is piggybacking from the 'Build Your Own npm Package!' post I made a couple days ago. Once I made that mini package, I was thinking "Mmmh what else can I make with npm? 🤔" so I did some research and made some notes on the whole process of working with npm!
Honestly, I'm still on a 'code-block' with my Django 'To-Do Application' project so until I find a solution to that, I will build other projects - as I always have been doing!
Anyhoo, I made a CLI (Command-Line Interface) tool called 'Cli-Mate' which asks for the user's city and country and you get back the max and min temperatiare of the day and even added a option of getting the sun rise/set times! Nice right? Yeah well it's not working properly because of me 'gitignore'-ing the file with the API key I used inside. Still don't know how ro hide my API keys and still have the program still work when it's run online/on someone else's machine… I'll figure it out ✨later✨
So I'll be going to my next bunch of npm-related ideas before I get bored and move on~!
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Downlaod NodeJS and npm on your machine
Hey there, curious minds! here is a video on how to download NodeJS and npm on your machine:
https://youtu.be/dG3eoCxmNNc?si=VuofvgW_8CTKTcZQ
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