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John Weland
42,478 PointsUsing Treehouse on a portfolio
I wanted to get a general feel on what other's though about using the mini-projects that we create with Treehouse code alongs on a portfolio website.
e.g. using the Drawing App that you create with Andrew Chalkley's jQuery Basics course. On the one hand you actually do code it, on the other hand it's really hard to mess it up because you have an instructor coding it along side you, so is it really "your work". Maybe listing it as 'course work'?
Discuss.
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Dino Paškvan
Courses Plus Student 44,108 PointsWhile you could probably list it as course work, there's a better option.
Make it your own. Use that app as foundation for something bigger. Make the design your own. Add image saving. Add support for different pen types/pen thicknesses. Make it possible to change the background color. There are plenty of possibilities.
It takes some effort, but you'll learn even more from the experience, you'll be able to really showcase it as your own work.
The foundations for most of the changes I've suggested are somewhere in the code for that app, it's up to you to find them and build upon them.