Ben Schroeder

Ben Schroeder

Washington, DC

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Skills & Experience

  • Spoken Languages

    • English
    • German

272 Achievements

  • Fetching Data with Queries
  • Getting Started with GraphQL
  • Abstraction
  • System.Object
  • Polymorphism
  • Soft Skills - Psychology
  • Writing Online
  • Productivity
  • Presentation Skills
  • Loops and Final Touches
  • Encapsulation with Properties
  • Inheritance
  • Encapsulation and Arrays
  • Create Function Using Arrow Syntax
  • Using Template Literals
  • Defining Variables With let and const
  • Scrum Artifacts
  • Scrum Events
  • Introducing Scrum
  • Methods
  • Object-Oriented Programming
  • Putting it all Together
  • Going Further with Routing
  • Navigating, Nesting and Redirecting Routes
  • Getting Started with React Router
  • Perfect
  • AWS and "The Cloud"
  • Setting Up an Angular Application
  • Getting Started with Data Science
  • Actions, Dispatch and Reducers. Oh my!
  • Modularizing the React Scoreboard Application
  • Getting Started with Redux
  • Getting Started with React Router
  • Important Skills For Professional Success
  • What is Authentication?
  • Completing and Testing the API
  • Communicating with Mongo Through Mongoose
  • Modeling Data for the API
  • Building API Routes in Express
  • Web Apps
  • Websites
  • Introduction
  • Building a REST Service
  • Next Steps
  • Improving Our Tests
  • Behavior Driven Development with Mocha & Chai
  • Introducing Unit Testing
  • More Advanced PHP for WordPress
  • PHP Basics for WordPress
  • Introduction to PHP for WordPress
  • Local WordPress Development
  • Error Handling
  • Creating Distributable OOP Packages
  • Autoloading and Composer
  • Databases and International Concerns
  • Starting Right with PHP Best Practices
  • How To Test Our Code
  • Creating a GitHub Client
  • What is Authentication
  • Go Further With Mongo
  • Working With Collections
  • Understanding MongoDB
  • Perform
  • Console I/O
  • Prepare and Plan
  • Communicating with a RESTful API
  • Contact Forms & Mailers
  • Slim and Templates
  • Ruby Loops
  • Build a Grocery List Program
  • Ruby Hashes
  • Ruby Arrays
  • Console Users and Permission
  • Moving Around in the Console
  • Ruby Logical Operators
  • Ruby Control Structures
  • Doing More with Express
  • Serving Static Files in Express
  • Using Templates with Express
  • The Request and Response Objects in Express
  • Ruby Operators
  • Introduction to Design
  • Improving the Application Code
  • Editing and Filtering Names
  • Adding and Removing Names
  • Traversing the DOM
  • Responding to User Interaction
  • Making Changes to the DOM
  • Final Project: Create a Typographic Site
  • Laying Out Type for the Web
  • Basic Web Typography
  • Professional Development
  • Applying & Interviewing
  • The Job Search
  • Ruby Methods
  • Ruby Numbers (Ruby Basics)
  • Ruby Strings (Ruby Basics)
  • Data Binding with D3
  • Selections with D3
  • Finishing Your WordPress Theme
  • Custom Homepage Templates in WordPress
  • Adding a Blog to a WordPress Theme
  • Custom Post Type Templates
  • Building Out WordPress Navigation
  • Building Page Templates in WordPress
  • The WordPress Loop
  • WordPress Header and Footer Templates
  • Working with CSS and JS in WordPress Themes
  • Starting a WordPress Theme
  • Building a Layout with Flexbox
  • Flexbox Properties
  • Understanding Flexbox
  • Networking
  • Personal Branding
  • How Ruby Works
  • Setting Your Course
  • Careers in the Tech Industry
  • Adding 3D Effects with CSS
  • Getting Started with CSS Transforms
  • Transition Timing Functions and Delays
  • Getting Started with CSS Transitions
  • Getting a Handle on the DOM
  • The Browser Environment
  • Getting Started with MongoDB
  • What is Agile?
  • GET and POST Requests in a Browser
  • Introduction to HTTP
  • Character Builder
  • Flask Templates
  • Welcome to Flask
  • Covering Your Bases
  • Be Assertive!
  • What Is Testing?
  • Developing Express Apps Like a Boss
  • Getting Started with Express
  • Classes
  • Objects and New Collection Types
  • The Cooler Parts of ES2015
  • Improving your Gulp Workflow
  • Compile Sass with Gulp
  • Gulp your JavaScript workflow!
  • Welcome to Gulp.js
  • Getting the REST You Need
  • Updating and Uninstalling Packages with npm
  • Installing Packages with npm
  • What is npm?
  • Gettin' CRUD-y With It
  • Creating a Command Line Weather Application
  • Handling Errors in Node
  • Getting Data From an API With Node
  • Introduction to Node.js
  • Our Diary App
  • Workflows
  • Working With Remote Repositories
  • Merging
  • Branches
  • Meet Peewee
  • Getting Started With Git
  • Why Version Control Matters
  • Python Regular Expressions
  • Timezones
  • Math Quiz App
  • Dates and Times
  • Buggy Logs
  • Cleaner Code
  • Hack-n-Slash
  • Python Inheritance
  • Python Objects
  • Dungeon Game 2
  • Python Sets
  • Python Tuples
  • Python Dictionaries
  • How to Choose and Use Webfonts
  • Introduction to Typography
  • Subqueries
  • Set Operations
  • Joining Table Data with SQL
  • Table Relationships
  • Database Keys
  • Database Normalization
  • Date and Time Functions
  • Aggregate and Numeric Functions
  • Working with Text
  • Ordering, Limiting and Paging Results
  • Handling Errors When Manipulating Data
  • Deleting Data from a Database
  • Updating Data in a Database
  • Python Slices
  • Python Lists
  • Letter Game App
  • Number Game App
  • Shopping List App
  • Logic in Python
  • Python Data Types
  • Adding Data to a Database
  • Self-Assessment
  • WWW
  • The Internet
  • Building a Collection
  • Building the Recipe
  • Component Lifecycle
  • Designing Dataflow
  • Stateful Components
  • Thinking in Components
  • First Steps in React
  • Dependency Management
  • Understanding Classes
  • Why Object-Oriented Programming?
  • PHPDB Stage 5: Search
  • PHPDB Stage 4: Pagination with LIMITs
  • PHPDB Stage 3: Using Relational Data
  • PHPDB Stage 2: Querying the Database with PHP
  • PHPDB Stage 1: Databases and PHP
  • PHP Email Form Errors
  • PHP Email Forms
  • PHP Inventory
  • PHP Includes
  • PHP Internal Functions
  • PHP Returns & Closures
  • PHP Functions Basics
  • PHP Loops
  • PHP Arrays
  • DOM Traversal
  • DOM Manipulation
  • Events
  • Hello, jQuery!
  • ES2015 Basics
  • Controllers and Scope
  • Getting Started with Angular
  • Creating a Simple Server in Node.js
  • Computer Languages
  • PHP Conditionals
  • Building a Command Line Application
  • PHP on the Web
  • Introduction to Node.js
  • Quiz Practice Project
  • Prototypal Inheritance
  • Daily Exercise Program
  • Constructor Functions & Prototypes
  • Introduction to Methods
  • Unit Converter
  • Getting to Know PHP
  • AJAX and APIs
  • jQuery and AJAX
  • Computer Basics
  • 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
  • Python For Beginners
  • Finding the Data You Want
  • Getting Data from a Database
  • Data, Databases and SQL
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Loops
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Conditional Statements
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Variables
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • Newbie