Blake Collins
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Blake Collins

Techdegree Graduate

Seattle, WA
Open to Work

Hello and welcome! I discovered a passion for coding a couple of years ago and I'm working hard to make the career change into tech. I have a strong interest in web development and cloud technologies.

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Skills & Experience

  • Spoken Languages

    • English
  • Awards

    • Eagle Scout

200 Achievements

  • Build Modular Interfaces with Components
  • Stateful Components
  • Introducing Props
  • Thinking in Components
  • Qualitative Studies
  • Measuring Your Designs
  • User Interface Library
  • Voice and Tone
  • Visual Design Language
  • Understanding Design Systems
  • PHP Conditionals
  • PHP on the Web
  • Daily Exercise Program
  • Unit Converter
  • Getting to Know PHP
  • Treehouse Club - JavaScript
  • Treehouse Club - CSS
  • Welcome to the Treehouse Club
  • WWW
  • The Internet
  • Computer Basics
  • Computer Languages
  • Security: Solutions
  • Security: Concerns
  • Chrome DevTools Basics
  • Testing for Accessibility
  • Mobile Accessibility
  • Accessible UI Patterns
  • Semantic HTML and WAI-ARIA
  • WCAG 2.0 (and Other Standards)
  • Access for Everybody
  • Combine and Minify Assets
  • Optimize Assets
  • Measuring Performance
  • Planning for Performance
  • Planning Your Users’ Journey
  • Writing a Classifier
  • Arrow Functions
  • Pass Information Into Functions
  • Create Reusable Code with Functions
  • The Math Object
  • Strategy: Determining Goals for your Product
  • Working with Numbers
  • Understanding Our Users
  • Making Decisions in Your Code with Conditional Statements
  • Intro to User Experience (UX) Design
  • Telling the Story
  • Designing for Your User’s "To-be"
  • Understanding your User’s “As-is” Scenario
  • Becoming Acquainted with Your User
  • Becoming a Design Thinker
  • Hierarchy and Layout
  • Writing Copy
  • How to Make Wireframes in Adobe XD
  • How to Make Wireframes in Sketch
  • How to Make Wireframes in Balsamiq
  • How to Make Wireframes on Paper
  • What is Wireframing?
  • Principles of Design
  • Elements of Design
  • Working With Strings
  • Storing and Tracking Information with Variables
  • Art Direction with the Picture Element
  • Image Delivery with Srcset and Sizes
  • JavaScript Frameworks, Libraries, and Developer Roles
  • JavaScript Outside of the Browser
  • First Steps in React
  • Hello, JavaScript!
  • Captioning Video
  • Media Basics
  • Classes
  • Objects and New Collection Types
  • The Cooler Parts of ES2015
  • Create Function Using Arrow Syntax
  • Using Template Literals
  • Defining Variables With let and const
  • Building a Flashcard App
  • Sweeping Vues: Loops, Methods, Directives
  • What a Beautiful Vue!
  • Introducing Vue
  • Responsive Patterns
  • Media Queries
  • Responsive Theory
  • Combining Array Methods
  • Array Manipulation
  • Array Iteration
  • Design Patterns
  • Page Layout
  • Going Further with Type
  • Laying Out Type
  • Web Typography
  • How to Choose and Use Fonts
  • Introduction to Typography
  • Exploration
  • Building Forms With Bootstrap
  • Using Bootstrap Components
  • Responsive Layouts With the Bootstrap Grid
  • Getting to Know Bootstrap 4
  • Exploring Async/Await
  • Understanding Promises
  • Discovery
  • Asynchronous JavaScript with Callbacks
  • What is Asynchronous Programming?
  • Programming AJAX
  • AJAX Concepts
  • Callbacks and the DOM
  • Callbacks with Timers
  • JavaScript Objects and Conditionals
  • Introduction to Callback Functions
  • JavaScript Arrays and Loops
  • JavaScript Functions
  • Data Types and Variables
  • Getters and Setters
  • Working with Classes in JavaScript
  • Object Basics
  • Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript
  • Going Further with Grid Layout
  • Flexible Sized Grids
  • Introducing Grid Layout
  • Keyframe and Line Drawing Animations
  • Transitions and Transforms
  • Creating an SVG
  • Improving the Application Code
  • Editing and Filtering Names
  • Adding and Removing Names
  • Traversing the DOM
  • Responding to User Interaction
  • Making Changes to the DOM
  • Getting a Handle on the DOM
  • The Browser Environment
  • ES2015 Basics
  • Using a jQuery Carousel
  • Add a Sticky Navigation Bar
  • Introducing jQuery Plugins
  • Working with jQuery Collections (2017)
  • Understanding jQuery Events and DOM Traversal (2017)
  • Introducing jQuery (2017)
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Loops
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Conditional Statements
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Variables
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • JavaScript Tools and Workflows
  • JavaScript is Everywhere
  • Add Reusable Logic to Your Sass
  • Introduction to SVG
  • Write Smart and Efficient CSS with Sass
  • Improve Your Workflow with Sass
  • Getting Started with Sass
  • Common Commands
  • Directories and Files
  • Adding 3D Effects with CSS
  • Getting Started with CSS Transforms
  • Transition Timing Functions and Delays
  • Getting Started with CSS Transitions
  • GitHub and Other Remote Repositories
  • Managing Committed Files
  • First Commits
  • The Command Shell
  • Building a Layout with Flexbox
  • Flexbox Properties
  • Understanding Flexbox
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
  • Selectors - Beyond the Basics
  • Choosing Options
  • Organizing Forms
  • Form Basics
  • Machine Learning Vocabulary
  • Structuring Tables
  • Table Basics
  • Positioning Page Content
  • Introduction to Machine Learning
  • 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
  • Adding a New Web Page
  • Make It Beautiful with CSS
  • Going Further with HTML
  • Images, Text and Links
  • Structuring Your Content
  • Getting Started With HTML
  • HTML: The Structural Foundation of Web Pages and Applications
  • Getting Familiar with HTML and CSS
  • Using Slack Effectively
  • Introducing Slack for the Techdegree
  • Finishing the Game
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • Newbie