Brendan Therrien

Brendan Therrien

Member Since February 24, 2015

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Skills & Experience

  • Spoken Languages

    • English
    • Spanish (learning)

309 Achievements

  • Stateful Components
  • Thinking in Components
  • First Steps in React
  • Express Middleware
  • Laying Out Type for the Web
  • Sessions and Cookies
  • User Registration and Login
  • What is Authentication?
  • Go Further With Mongo
  • Basic Web Typography
  • 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
  • Design Patterns
  • Page Layout
  • Building a Layout with Flexbox
  • Flexbox Properties
  • Working With Collections
  • Understanding MongoDB
  • Getting Started with MongoDB
  • Improving your Gulp Workflow
  • Working with Text
  • Compile Sass with Gulp
  • Gulp your JavaScript workflow!
  • Welcome to Gulp.js
  • Adding 3D Effects with CSS
  • Handling Errors When Manipulating Data
  • Deleting Data from a Database
  • Updating Data in a Database
  • Adding Data to a Database
  • Add Reusable Logic to Your Sass
  • Write Smart and Efficient CSS with Sass
  • Improve Your Workflow with Sass
  • Getting Started with Sass
  • Getting Started with CSS Transforms
  • Transition Timing Functions and Delays
  • Getting Started with CSS Transitions
  • Debugging, Best Practices, and Production
  • Refactoring with Sass
  • Installing Sass and Setting up the Project
  • Serving Static Files in Express
  • Applying Express Knowledge
  • Hello Internet!
  • Security: Solutions
  • Security: Concerns
  • Middleware
  • Deeper into Routing with Express
  • Using Templates with Express
  • Getting Started with Express
  • Get Involved in Open Source
  •  Create a Web Presence on GitHub
  •  Working on a Team
  • Working By Yourself
  • Hello, GitHub!
  • 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
  • Creating a Command Line Weather Application
  • Handling Errors in Node
  • Getting Data From an API With Node
  • Classes
  • GET and POST Requests in a Browser
  • Introduction to HTTP
  • GitHub and Other Remote Repositories
  • Managing Committed Files
  • First Commits
  • How to Choose and Use Webfonts
  • 5 Star Techdegree Reviewer
  • 1st Techdegree Peer Review
  • Introduction to Typography
  • Creating an SVG
  • Introduction to SVG
  • Exploration
  • Discovery
  • Getters and Setters
  • Working with Classes in JavaScript
  • Object Basics
  • Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript
  • Combining Array Methods
  • Array Manipulation
  • Array Iteration
  • Callbacks and the DOM
  • Callbacks with Timers
  • Introduction to Callback Functions
  • Improving the Application Code
  • Editing and Filtering Names
  • Adding and Removing Names
  • Using a jQuery Carousel
  • Add a Sticky Navigation Bar
  • Introducing jQuery Plugins
  • Create Function Using Arrow Syntax
  • Using Template Literals
  • Defining Variables With let and const
  • 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
  • Finishing the Game
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • Objects and New Collection Types
  • The Cooler Parts of ES2015
  • ES2015 Basics
  • Working with jQuery Collections (2017)
  • Understanding jQuery Events and DOM Traversal (2017)
  • Introducing jQuery (2017)
  • Traversing the DOM
  • Responding to User Interaction
  • Making Changes to the DOM
  • Getting a Handle on the DOM
  • The Browser Environment
  • Introduction to Node.js
  • Mobile Usability
  • Website Usability
  • What is Usability?
  • Design Foundations Final
  • Becoming a Problem Solver
  • Understanding Aesthetics
  • Introduction to Design
  • Understanding Classes
  • Getting Started with iOS Development
  • Differentiating Between Objects
  • Class Inheritance
  • Classes in Swift
  • Complex Data Structures
  • Adding Power to Functions
  • Functions in Swift
  • Control Flow With Conditional Statements
  • Control Flow With Loops
  • Dictionaries in Swift
  • Introduction to Collections
  • Swift Operators
  • Swift Types
  • An Introduction to Swift Programming
  • WordPress Themes
  • Installing Wordpress
  • Getting Started with WordPress
  • Starting Right with PHP Best Practices
  • Understanding Flexbox
  • Introduction to Video Games
  • Ordering, Limiting and Paging Results
  • Why Object-Oriented Programming?
  • PHP Includes
  • Finding the Data You Want
  • Getting Data from a Database
  • Data, Databases and SQL
  • Positioning Page Content
  • CSS Layout Project
  • Controlling Layout with CSS Display Modes
  • Page Layout with the Float Property
  • Getting Started with CSS Layout
  • Listing Inventory Items
  • Adding a Contact Form
  • Creating the Menu and Footer
  • Getting Started with PHP
  • Dependency Management
  • PHP Inheritance & Interfaces
  • PHP Properties & Methods
  • PHP Objects and Classes
  • PHP Internal Functions
  • PHP Returns & Closures
  • PHP Functions Basics
  • Installing Programs
  • Environment and Redirection
  • PHP Loops
  • Console Processes
  • PHP Conditionals
  • PHP Datatypes
  • PHP Data & Structure
  • PHP Getting Started
  • Setting Your Course
  • Console Users and Permission
  • Careers in the Tech Industry
  • Self-Assessment
  • Moving Around in the Console
  • AJAX and APIs
  • jQuery and AJAX
  • Programming AJAX
  • AJAX Concepts
  • The Internet
  • Getting Started with Jekyll
  • Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript
  • Selecting Elements and Adding Events with JavaScript
  • JavaScript and the DOM
  • Quiz Practice Project
  • Prototypal Inheritance
  • Constructor Functions & Prototypes
  • Art Direction with the Picture Element
  • Image Delivery with Srcset and Sizes
  • Chrome DevTools Basics
  • Custom Media Players
  • Captioning Video
  • Media Basics
  • Introduction to Methods
  • Creating a Simple Drawing Application
  • Creating a Password Confirmation Form
  • Creating a Mobile Drop Down Menu
  • The Logo Sprint
  • Logo Design 101
  • Advanced Sass Concepts
  • Speeding up Workflow With Sass
  • Variables, Mixins, and Extending Selectors
  • Getting Started with Sass
  • Build a Website With Bootstrap
  • HTML Email Basics
  • Prototyping With Bootstrap
  • Introduction to Front-End Frameworks
  • Working with Media Queries
  • CSS Animation Basics
  • Understanding CSS Transitions and Transforms
  • Understanding Flexbox and Multi-Column Layout
  • Gradients
  • Web Typography
  • Backgrounds and Borders
  • CSS Box Model
  • Text, Fonts, and Lists
  • Values and Units
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Selectors
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Responsive Patterns
  • Media Queries
  • Responsive Theory
  • Web Apps
  • Websites
  • Introduction
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
  • Selectors - Beyond the Basics
  • Grid Layout
  • Flexbox Layout
  • Positioning Schemes
  • Float Layout
  • Display Modes
  • MASH JavaScript
  • MASH CSS
  • MASH HTML
  • Treehouse Club - JavaScript
  • Treehouse Club - CSS
  • WWW
  • Structuring Tables
  • Table Basics
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Functions
  • Welcome to the Treehouse Club
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Strings
  • Introduction Variables
  • Creating a Simple Lightbox
  • Creating a Spoiler Revealer
  • Introduction to jQuery
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Loops
  • Choosing Options
  • Organizing Forms
  • Form Basics
  • Fundamental Concepts
  • Designing with the Latest Features
  • Basic Layout
  • The Box Model
  • Understanding Values and Units
  • Basic Selectors
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Conditional Statements
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Variables
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • Forms
  • Tables
  • Objects
  • Links
  • Lists
  • Text
  • Introduction
  • Website Basics
  • 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
  • Ruby Hashes
  • Functions
  • Objects and Arrays
  • Control Structures
  • Basics
  • Ruby Arrays
  • Creating HTML Content
  • HTML First
  • Beginning HTML and CSS
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Basics
  • Ruby Logical Operators
  • Ruby Control Structures
  • Ruby Operators
  • Ruby Methods
  • Ruby Numbers (Ruby Basics)
  • Ruby Strings (Ruby Basics)
  • How Ruby Works
  • Newbie