1. What concept/project have you decided to take on for the challenge?
I admit I struggled with this one. Initially I had no idea what I wanted to do. Then in the middle of this mission I had too many ideas and was constantly changing ideas. After giving it a lot of thought (and a couple of breaks later), my concept is a project series where I'll be building a quiz app with Ruby. My idea is to create a quiz app where users can answer quiz questions on Disney Princesses. The quiz app will calculate the score and shows users the result. Once the result is displayed, users can have the option to retake the quiz or exit the app.
2. Why did you pick it for yourself?
A lot of this really comes from what I'm learning right now. I'm learning Ruby on Rails right now so I've been reviewing lots of Ruby as I learn Rails. Although I have experience working with Ruby, I feel really rusty with Ruby so that's why I'm reviewing it. I feel like building a Ruby app like a quiz is a great way to help me keep reviewing and apply Ruby concepts.
3. Why do you think sharing your journey in public will help others?
My priority has always been sharing what I know and experience with others. The Original BritishPandaChick actually started with this principle by just sharing what I know and experienced in weekly posts. This is something I continued doing with My Coding Journey and later on BritishPandaChick Codes. Now that Iām starting a YouTube channel, that priority has evolved to be more positive and empowering. I am always thinking of my younger self as I code so I want to make something that my younger self would be able to watch and get a feeling that they could do it too.
With this quiz app, I hope it will help others get a sense of how developers think and problem solve when something arises. While developers don't post videos of them spending hours debugging code and running tests to fix an error, I want this series to stop and take a minute to summarize the steps I took fix the error, what I've tried, what didn't work, etc.
4.Share your series title as well as entries you anticipate creating and tackling.
This is my working version of what I've got so far. I tried thinking about as the basics I needed to make this app. As I work more on the project, I might add more to the app.
Series Title: Build a quiz app with Ruby (featuring the Disney Princesses)
Entry 1: Getting started and setup
Part 1: Introduction to the project, setting up directory and files, Getting the quiz questions working
Entry 2: Calculating the score
Part 2: Calculating the score and displaying results
Entry 3: Retake the quiz
Part 3: Create functionality that allows user to retake quiz or exit the app
This is a really fun project idea! I tried learning a little bit of ruby a few years back but didn't stick with it, and it's cool to see what others are building. I can't wait to see your video series!
1. What concept/project have you decided to take on for the challenge?
I admit I struggled with this one. Initially I had no idea what I wanted to do. Then in the middle of this mission I had too many ideas and was constantly changing ideas. After giving it a lot of thought (and a couple of breaks later), my concept is a project series where I'll be building a quiz app with Ruby. My idea is to create a quiz app where users can answer quiz questions on Disney Princesses. The quiz app will calculate the score and shows users the result. Once the result is displayed, users can have the option to retake the quiz or exit the app.
2. Why did you pick it for yourself?
A lot of this really comes from what I'm learning right now. I'm learning Ruby on Rails right now so I've been reviewing lots of Ruby as I learn Rails. Although I have experience working with Ruby, I feel really rusty with Ruby so that's why I'm reviewing it. I feel like building a Ruby app like a quiz is a great way to help me keep reviewing and apply Ruby concepts.
3. Why do you think sharing your journey in public will help others?
My priority has always been sharing what I know and experience with others. The Original BritishPandaChick actually started with this principle by just sharing what I know and experienced in weekly posts. This is something I continued doing with My Coding Journey and later on BritishPandaChick Codes. Now that Iām starting a YouTube channel, that priority has evolved to be more positive and empowering. I am always thinking of my younger self as I code so I want to make something that my younger self would be able to watch and get a feeling that they could do it too.
With this quiz app, I hope it will help others get a sense of how developers think and problem solve when something arises. While developers don't post videos of them spending hours debugging code and running tests to fix an error, I want this series to stop and take a minute to summarize the steps I took fix the error, what I've tried, what didn't work, etc.
4.Share your series title as well as entries you anticipate creating and tackling.
This is my working version of what I've got so far. I tried thinking about as the basics I needed to make this app. As I work more on the project, I might add more to the app.
Series Title: Build a quiz app with Ruby (featuring the Disney Princesses)
Entry 1: Getting started and setup
Part 1: Introduction to the project, setting up directory and files, Getting the quiz questions working
Entry 2: Calculating the score
Part 2: Calculating the score and displaying results
Entry 3: Retake the quiz
Part 3: Create functionality that allows user to retake quiz or exit the app
I love your project idea. There's quite a few people that I follow on Twitter trying to learn Ruby so hopefully your series gets some followers.
This is a really fun project idea! I tried learning a little bit of ruby a few years back but didn't stick with it, and it's cool to see what others are building. I can't wait to see your video series!
I love this idea! I am a huge fan of Ruby and this quiz sounds really fun :)