Marcus Michaels

Marcus Michaels

London

Creative, tech loving kind of guy. Working across multiple industries doing design, development, and general creative bits and bobs. Basically, making stuff up for a living. Experimental Optimist. Thanks for reading this. And this.

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    Marcus Michaels

  • Job Title

    Director

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  • Manipulating Types
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  • Getting Started with TypeScript
  • Imposter Syndrome
  • Algorithms in Code
  • Time Complexity
  • Playing a Counting Game
  • Dockerize a Web App
  • Managing Images and Containers
  • Building Images Using Dockerfiles
  • Fundamentals of Docker
  • Docker Use Cases
  • Blocks Practice
  • Working With Blocks
  • Ruby Blocks
  • Build a Bank Account Class
  • Ruby Variables and Methods
  • Ruby Objects and Classes
  • Build a Simple Contact List
  • Ruby Iteration
  • Ruby Loops
  • Build a Grocery List Program
  • Ruby Hashes
  • Ruby Arrays
  • Ruby Conditionals
  • Ruby Numeric Types
  • Ruby Objects
  • Ruby Strings and Escape Sequences
  • Ruby Syntax
  • Next Steps
  • Improving Our Tests
  • Behavior Driven Development with Mocha & Chai
  • Introducing Unit Testing
  • Combining Array Methods
  • Array Manipulation
  • Array Iteration
  • Adding the Game Logic
  • Making the Game Interactive
  • Rendering the Game
  •  Building Constructor Methods and Generating Objects
  • Introducing 'Four in a Row'
  • Checking Out and Returning a Book
  • Starting with Some Methods
  • The Rough Plan
  • Object Basics
  • Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript
  • Managing State and Data Flow
  • Build Modular Interfaces with Components
  • Stateful Components
  • Getters and Setters
  • Working with Classes in JavaScript
  • Introducing Props
  • Thinking in Components
  • First Steps in React
  • The Balance Sheet
  • The Profit & Loss Statement
  • Introducing Financial Statements
  • Business Plan for Freelance Business
  • Business Plan Basics
  • Express Middleware
  • Sessions and Cookies
  • User Registration and Login
  • What is Authentication?
  • Serving Static Files in Express
  • Applying Express Knowledge
  • Middleware
  • Deeper into Routing with Express
  • Using Templates with Express
  • Getting Started with Express
  • JavaScript Tools and Workflows
  • JavaScript is Everywhere
  • Go Further With Mongo
  • Working With Collections
  • Creating a Command Line Weather Application
  • Handling Errors in Node
  • Getting Data From an API With Node
  • Introduction to Node.js
  • HTTP Methods and Headers
  • Creating a Basic Template Engine in Node.js
  • Handling Routes in Node.js
  • Creating a Simple Server in Node.js
  • Understanding MongoDB
  • Getting Started with MongoDB
  • What is Authentication
  • Day 3: Getting Creative
  • Day 2: Advanced Selecting
  • Day 1: Joining Tables
  • Orientation: Selecting Data
  • 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
  • Adding Data to a Database
  • Finding the Data You Want
  • Getting Data from a Database
  • Data, Databases and SQL
  • Stateful Components
  • Thinking in Components
  • First Steps in React
  • Building a Command Line Application
  • Introduction to Node.js
  • Installing a Ruby Development Environment
  • Programming AJAX
  • AJAX Concepts
  • Discovery
  • Testing and Debugging
  • Animate This (iOS7)
  • Designing your App
  • Refactoring into a Model
  • Creating a Data Collection
  • Understanding Views and View Controllers
  • Getting Started (iOS7)
  • Beyond the Basics
  • Advanced Objective-C
  • Foundation Framework
  • Welcome to the Treehouse Club
  • Introduction to Objective-C
  • Pointers and Memory
  • Functional Programming in C
  • Ruby Methods
  • Ruby Numbers (Ruby Basics)
  • Ruby Strings (Ruby Basics)
  • How Ruby Works
  • Say Hello to Python
  • Listing Inventory Items
  • Building a WordPress Plugin Settings Page
  • How WordPress Plugins Work
  • Installing Programs
  • Environment and Redirection
  • Chrome DevTools Basics
  • 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
  • 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
  • Creating HTML Content
  • HTML First
  • Beginning HTML and CSS
  • Workflows
  • Console Processes
  • Console Users and Permission
  • Moving Around in the Console
  • WordPress Plugin Best Practices
  • Widgets and Custom Menus
  • Custom Post Types and Fields
  • Customizing WordPress Themes
  • WordPress Themes
  • Installing Wordpress
  • Advanced Sass Concepts
  • Speeding up Workflow With Sass
  • Variables, Mixins, and Extending Selectors
  • Getting Started with Sass
  • Video Marketing
  • Email Marketing
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Usability Testing
  • Usability Basics
  • Creating Home Page Assets
  • Applying Effects
  • How to Draw in Illustrator
  •  Adding Color and Type
  • Creating an Icon
  • Introduction to Illustrator
  • Workflow Basics
  • Slices & Save for Web
  • Vector Shapes
  • Type Tools
  • Masks Basics
  • Layer Basics
  • Workspace Basics
  • Social Media
  • Design Foundations Final
  • Becoming a Problem Solver
  • Understanding Aesthetics
  • Forming Your Company
  • Corporate Structure
  • Why Start a Business?
  • Important Skills For Professional Success
  • Fundamentals of C
  • Working With Remote Repositories
  • Merging
  • Branches
  • Getting Started With Git
  • Why Version Control Matters
  • Launching a WordPress Site
  • WordPress and Forms
  • Extending WordPress Template Functionality
  • Adding a Contact Form
  • Creating the Menu and Footer
  • Getting Started with PHP
  • Converting Static HTML into WordPress Templates
  • Preparing to Code WordPress Templates
  • WordPress Theme Functions
  • WordPress Theme Templates
  • Content Strategy with WordPress
  • Introduction to Design
  • Customizing WordPress
  • Managing Comments
  • Adding and Editing Content in WordPress
  • Configuring WordPress
  • Web Apps
  • Websites
  • Introduction
  • Functions
  • Objects and Arrays
  • Control Structures
  • Basics
  • Getting Started with WordPress
  • Customizing Google Maps
  • Google Maps Integration
  • jQuery Plugins
  • Form Validation and Manipulation
  • Introduction to jQuery
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Strings
  • Introduction Variables
  • Advanced Techniques
  • Responsive Design
  • Adaptive Design
  • Fluid Foundation
  • Introduction to Responsive Web Design
  • Media Queries
  • CSS Animations
  • Transitions and Transforms
  • Flexbox and Multi-Column Layout
  • Gradients
  • Web Typography
  • Backgrounds and Borders
  • CSS Box Model
  • Color Theory
  • Principles
  • Elements
  • Website Basics
  • Text, Fonts, and Lists
  • Values and Units
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Selectors
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Forms
  • Tables
  • Objects
  • Links
  • Lists
  • Text
  • Introduction
  • Launching the Website
  • Styling Content
  • Creating a Website Structure
  • Text Editors and HTML
  • Website Basics
  • Newbie