Alec Gillanders

Alec Gillanders

Member Since January 26, 2016

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Skills & Experience

  • Job Title

    Web Application developer

240 Achievements

  • Building API Routes in Express
  • Building a REST Service
  • Improving the Application Code
  • Editing and Filtering Names
  • Adding and Removing Names
  • Thinking in Components
  • First Steps in React
  • Callbacks and the DOM
  • Callbacks with Timers
  • Introduction to Callback Functions
  • Building Forms with Bootstrap
  • Using Bootstrap Components
  • Responsive Layouts with the Bootstrap Grid
  • Getting to Know Bootstrap 4
  • Angular Form Validation
  • Angular Basic Forms
  • Services in Angular
  • Angular Components
  • Setting Up an Angular Application
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
  • Selectors - Beyond the Basics
  • Scrum Artifacts
  • Scrum Events
  • Introducing Scrum
  • What is Agile?
  • GET and POST Requests in a Browser
  • Introduction to HTTP
  • Traversing the DOM
  • Responding to User Interaction
  • Making Changes to the DOM
  • Getting a Handle on the DOM
  • The Browser Environment
  • Creating Home Page Assets
  • Applying Effects
  • How to Draw in Illustrator
  • The Internet
  • Handling Errors When Manipulating Data
  • Deleting Data from a Database
  • Updating Data in a Database
  • Adding Data to a Database
  •  Adding Color and Type
  • Creating an Icon
  • Introduction to Illustrator
  • CRUD Operations
  • LINQ Queries
  • Extending Our Entity Data Model
  • Entity Framework and Databases
  • Introducing Entity Framework
  • Getting the REST You Need
  • Keyframe and Line Drawing Animations
  • Transitions and Transforms
  • Advanced Sass Concepts
  • Speeding up Workflow With Sass
  • Variables, Mixins, and Extending Selectors
  • Getting Started with Sass
  • What's New in Foundation 5
  • Build a Website With Foundation
  • Prototyping With Foundation
  • Build a Website With Bootstrap
  • More TODO with the MEAN Stack
  • Creating and Editing Data in a MEAN App
  • Setting Up MongoDB
  • Going MEAN with Angular
  • Digging Deeper Into Migrations
  • Getting Started with Using Migrations
  • Sets and Dictionaries
  • Lists
  • Arrays
  • Abstraction
  • System.Object
  • Polymorphism
  • Query Builder
  • Query Operators
  • Functional!
  • Now You're Querying!
  • Finishing Our CRUD Web App
  • Adding Form Validation
  • Improving Our Form
  • Creating a Basic Form
  • Introducing CRUD Applications
  • Art Direction with the Picture Element
  • Image Delivery with Srcset and Sizes
  • Creating an SVG
  • Introduction to SVG
  • Structuring Tables
  • Table Basics
  • Loops and Final Touches
  • Encapsulation with Properties
  • Encapsulation and Arrays
  • Inheritance
  • Methods
  • Object-Oriented Programming
  • Perfect
  • Perform
  • Console I/O
  • Prepare and Plan
  • Going MEAN with Express
  • Workflow Basics
  • Slices & Save for Web
  • Vector Shapes
  • Type Tools
  • Masks Basics
  • Layer Basics
  • Workspace Basics
  • Final Project: Create a Typographic Site
  • Laying Out Type for the Web
  • Basic Web Typography
  • How to Choose and Use Webfonts
  • Introduction to Typography
  • Save for the Web
  • Adding Images and a Mockup
  • Logo Design
  • Creating a Wireframe
  • Introducing Adobe Illustrator
  • Treehouse Club - CSS
  • Introduction to MEAN
  • Treehouse Club - JavaScript
  • Grid Layout
  • Flexbox Layout
  • Positioning Schemes
  • Float Layout
  • Display Modes
  • Building a Layout with Flexbox
  • Flexbox Properties
  • Understanding Flexbox
  • Positioning Page Content
  • CSS Layout Project
  • Page Layout with the Float Property
  • Controlling Layout with CSS Display Modes
  • Getting Started with CSS Layout
  • Fundamental Concepts
  • Designing with the Latest Features
  • Basic Layout
  • The Box Model
  • Understanding Values and Units
  • Basic Selectors
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Choosing Options
  • Organizing Forms
  • Form Basics
  • Adding a New Web Page
  • Make It Beautiful with CSS
  • HTML: The Structural Foundation of Web Pages and Applications
  • Getting Familiar with HTML and CSS
  • Adding a List Page
  • Modeling and Presenting Data
  • Views
  • Controllers
  • Project Setup
  • Prototyping With Bootstrap
  • Introduction to Front-End Frameworks
  • Responsive Patterns
  • Media Queries
  • Responsive Theory
  • Website Basics
  • Installing Programs
  • Environment and Redirection
  • Console Processes
  • Console Users and Permission
  • Moving Around in the Console
  • Debugging, Best Practices, and Production
  • Refactoring with Sass
  • Installing Sass and Setting up the Project
  • Finding the Data You Want
  • Getting Data from a Database
  • Data, Databases and SQL
  • Go Further With Mongo
  • Working With Collections
  • Understanding MongoDB
  • Getting Started with MongoDB
  • Improving Our Todo App
  • Services in Angular
  • Using Angular's Built-in Directives
  • Controllers and Scope
  • Getting Started with Angular
  • Improving your Gulp Workflow
  • Compile Sass with Gulp
  • Gulp your JavaScript workflow!
  • Welcome to Gulp.js
  • Doing More with Express
  • Serving Static Files in Express
  • Using Templates with Express
  • The Request and Response Objects in Express
  • Developing Express Apps Like a Boss
  • Getting Started with Express
  • Updating and Uninstalling Packages with npm
  • Installing Packages with npm
  • What is npm?
  • HTTP Methods and Headers
  • Creating a Basic Template Engine in Node.js
  • Handling Routes in Node.js
  • Creating a Simple Server in Node.js
  • Quiz Practice Project
  • Prototypal Inheritance
  • Constructor Functions & Prototypes
  • Introduction to Methods
  • AJAX and APIs
  • jQuery and AJAX
  • Programming AJAX
  • AJAX Concepts
  • Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript
  • Selecting Elements and Adding Events with JavaScript
  • JavaScript and the DOM
  • Using a jQuery Carousel
  • Add a Sticky Navigation Bar
  • Introducing jQuery Plugins
  • Creating a Simple Drawing Application
  • Creating a Password Confirmation Form
  • Creating a Mobile Drop Down Menu
  • Creating a Simple Lightbox
  • Creating a Spoiler Revealer
  • Introduction to jQuery
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Loops
  • Building a Command Line Application
  • Introduction to Node.js
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Conditional Statements
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • MASH JavaScript
  • MASH CSS
  • MASH HTML
  • JavaScript Variables
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • Debugging HTML and CSS Problems
  • Sharing a Website
  • Responsive Web Design and Testing
  • Adding Pages to a Website
  • Styling Web Pages and Navigation
  • Customizing Colors and Fonts
  • CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
  • Creating HTML Content
  • HTML First
  • Beginning HTML and CSS
  • WordPress Themes
  • Customizing WordPress Themes
  • Installing Wordpress
  • Newbie