Brian Ball
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Brian Ball

Treehouse Project Reviewer

Member Since July 11, 2018

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198 Achievements

  • Intro to User Experience (UX) Design
  • Database Normalization
  • Error Handling
  • Creating Distributable OOP Packages
  • Autoloading and Composer
  • Databases and International Concerns
  • Starting Right with PHP Best Practices
  • Introduction to Unit Testing
  • Project Setup
  • Extending the Family
  • Inheritance
  • Building an MVC Project
  • Model View Controller
  • PHPDB Stage 1: Databases and PHP
  • Parsing Specific Formats
  • Building the Recipe
  • Understanding Classes
  • Why Object-Oriented Programming?
  • PHP Includes
  • PHP Loops
  • PHP Arrays
  • PHP Internal Functions
  • PHP Returns & Closures
  • PHP Functions Basics
  • PHP Conditionals
  • PHP on the Web
  • Daily Exercise Program
  • Unit Converter
  • Getting to Know PHP
  • Using Slack Effectively
  • Introducing Slack for the Techdegree
  • Dockerize a Web App
  • Branches on Git Hosting Services
  • Remote Branches
  • Managing Images and Containers
  • Building Images Using Dockerfiles
  • Fundamentals of Docker
  • Merging
  • Branches
  • Rehearsal and Delivery
  • Creating and Refining
  • Preparing to Present
  • Searching Names
  • Sorting Algorithms
  • Merge Sort and Linked Lists
  • The Merge Sort Algorithm
  • Building a Linked List
  • Exploring Arrays
  • Docker Use Cases
  • Functions and Looping
  • Sessions and Cookies
  • User Registration and Login
  • What is Authentication?
  • Recursion and Space Complexity
  • Algorithms in Code
  • Time Complexity
  • Playing a Counting Game
  • Get Involved in Open Source
  •  Create a Web Presence on GitHub
  •  Working on a Team
  • Working By Yourself
  • Hello, GitHub!
  • Scrum Artifacts
  • Scrum Events
  • Introducing Scrum
  • What is Agile?
  • Completing and Testing the API
  • Communicating with Mongo Through Mongoose
  • Modeling Data for the API
  • Building API Routes in Express
  • Building a REST Service
  • Go Further With Mongo
  • Working With Collections
  • Understanding MongoDB
  • Getting Started with MongoDB
  • Getting the REST You Need 2
  • 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
  • Adding Data to a Database
  • Finding the Data You Want
  • Getting Data from a Database
  • Data, Databases and SQL
  • All Together Now
  • Types and Branching
  • Meet Python
  • Going Further with Routing
  • Navigating, Nesting and Redirecting Routes
  • Getting Started with React Router
  • React Component Patterns
  • Stateful Components and Lifecycle Methods
  • Managing State and Data Flow
  • Build Modular Interfaces with Components
  • Self-Assessment
  • Stateful Components
  • Introducing Props
  • Thinking in Components
  • First Steps in React
  • 5th Techdegree Peer Review
  • Serving Static Files in Express
  • Applying Express Knowledge
  • Middleware
  • Deeper into Routing with Express
  • Using Templates with Express
  • Getting Started with Express
  • Updating and Uninstalling Packages with npm
  • Installing Packages with npm
  • What is npm?
  • Creating a Command Line Weather Application
  • Handling Errors in Node
  • Getting Data From an API With Node
  • Introduction to Node.js
  • UX Content Basics
  • JavaScript Frameworks, Libraries, and Developer Roles
  • JavaScript Outside of the Browser
  • AJAX and APIs
  • jQuery and AJAX
  • Programming AJAX
  • AJAX Concepts
  • GET and POST Requests in a Browser
  • Introduction to HTTP
  • GitHub and Other Remote Repositories
  • Managing Committed Files
  • First Commits
  • Combining Array Methods
  • Array Manipulation
  • 1st Techdegree Peer Review
  • Practice forEach
  • Array Iteration
  • Callbacks and the DOM
  • Callbacks with Timers
  • Introduction to Callback Functions
  • Adding the Game Logic
  • Making the Game Interactive
  • Getters and Setters
  • Rendering the Game
  •  Building Constructor Methods and Generating Objects
  • Introducing 'Four in a Row'
  • Working with Classes in JavaScript
  • Object Basics
  • Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript
  • Working with jQuery Collections (2017)
  • Understanding jQuery Events and DOM Traversal (2017)
  • Introducing jQuery (2017)
  • Getting Started with CSS Layout
  • Choosing Options
  • Organizing Forms
  • Form Basics
  • JavaScript Tools and Workflows
  • JavaScript is Everywhere
  • 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
  • Create Function Using Arrow Syntax
  • Using Template Literals
  • Defining Variables With let and const
  • JavaScript Arrays and Loops
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Objects and Conditionals
  • JavaScript Functions
  • Data Types and Variables
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Loops
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Conditional Statements
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Variables
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • Finishing the Game
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
  • Selectors - Beyond the Basics
  • Designing with the Latest Features
  • Understanding Values and Units
  • Basic Selectors
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Fundamental Concepts
  • Basic Layout
  • The Box Model
  • Going Further with HTML
  • Images, Text and Links
  • Structuring Your Content
  • Getting Started With HTML
  • 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
  • Newbie