Marissa Richardson

Marissa Richardson

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  • A Route to a Delete Action
  • Routes to Update Actions
  • Routes for Create Actions
  • A Route to a Read Action
  • Rails Resource Index
  • Adding a Model Attribute
  • Using the Rails Console
  • Prepare and Plan
  • Database Normalization
  • Handling Rails Requests
  • The Unity Editor and Scene Setup
  • Introduction to Video Games
  • Creating Rails Apps
  • Intro to Sprite Kit
  • Deploying to a Device (ObjC)
  • Debugging Our App (ObjC)
  • Improving Our User Interface (ObjC)
  • Creating a Data Model (ObjC)
  • Views and View Controllers (ObjC)
  • Getting Started with Xcode (ObjC)
  • Tying It All together
  • Diving Deeper
  • Memory, Arrays and Loops, Oh My!
  • Objective-C in Action
  • Intermediate Topics in Objective-C
  • The Objective-C Mindset
  • Basic Types, Structures and Syntax
  • Moving from Swift to Objective-C
  • Delegation in iOS
  • Introduction to Delegates
  • Usability Testing
  • Usability Basics
  • Video Marketing
  • Email Marketing
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Social Media
  • Next Steps
  • Financing Our Company
  • Selling Your Product
  • Marketing Your Product
  • Product Market Fit
  • Discovery
  • Swift Dictionaries
  • Introduction to Collections
  • Swift Operators
  • Swift Types
  • An Introduction to Swift Programming
  • Building a Music Library and Playlists (Swift)
  • Simple Mobile Interface
  • Exporting Designs
  • Sketch Features
  • Color Theory
  • Principles
  • Elements
  • Working with a Developer
  • Designing our App
  • Wireframing, Interaction Design and Planning
  • Start menu and App Icon
  • Sound Design
  • Animating and Saving Sprites
  • Designing Characters and a Scene
  • Final Project: Create a Typographic Site
  • Laying Out Type for the Web
  • Basic Web Typography
  • Creating Home Page Assets
  • Applying Effects
  • How to Draw in Illustrator
  •  Adding Color and Type
  • Creating an Icon
  • Introduction to Illustrator
  • Introduction to Game Design
  • How to Choose and Use Webfonts
  • Save for the Web
  • Adding Images and a Mockup
  • Logo Design
  • Creating a Wireframe
  • Introducing Adobe Illustrator
  • Workflow Basics
  • Slices & Save for Web
  • Vector Shapes
  • Type Tools
  • Masks Basics
  • Improving Usability
  • Mobile Usability
  • Website Usability
  • What is Usability?
  • Layer Basics
  • Workspace Basics
  • Introduction to Typography
  • Finalizing the Project
  • Case Studies and Examples
  • The Brand Identity Design Process
  • Introduction to Brand Identity
  • Design Foundations Final
  • Becoming a Problem Solver
  • Responsive Layouts with the Bootstrap Grid
  • Getting to Know Bootstrap 4
  • Two-stage Object Creation
  • What Are Design Patterns?
  • Getting Work Done
  • A Lifestyle Choice
  • Growing Your Business
  • Client Services
  • Sales and Pitching
  • Marketing and Promotion
  • Using a Navigation Controller With Segues (Swift)
  • Working With Multiple View Controllers (Swift)
  • Deploying to a Device
  • Debugging Our App
  • Managing Friendships
  • Improving Our User Interface
  • Using a Data Model
  • Views and View Controllers
  • Getting Started with Xcode
  • Swift Value vs Reference Types
  • Swift Properties
  • Swift Inheritance
  • Swift Classes and Objects
  • Modular Media Queries
  • Sass Grid System
  • SMACSS and Sass
  • Sass and BEM
  • Swift Structs and their Methods
  • Swift Structs
  • Swift Enums and their Methods
  • Swift Enums
  • Swift Optionals
  • Swift Parameters and Tuples
  • Swift Functions
  • Control Flow
  • Collections
  • Operators
  • Getting Modular with Mixins and Functions
  • Push Updates
  • Activity Feeds
  • Create an Image Gallery
  • Uploading and Resizing Images
  • Uploading Files
  • Using AJAX
  • Adding State
  • Building the Friendship UI
  • Modifying Todo Lists
  • Form Builders and Rails
  • Styling Rails Forms
  • Python For Beginners
  • Debugging, Best Practices, and Production
  • ADS Writing and Preparation
  • Introduction to UI Design
  • Creating Friendships
  • Adding 3D Effects with CSS
  • Getting Started with CSS Transforms
  • Transition Timing Functions and Delays
  • Getting the REST You Need
  • API Authentication
  • Coding the API
  • Route Connections
  • Introduction to REST
  • Styling Rails Models
  • Ruby on Rails Helpers
  • Rails Partials
  • Styling a Header
  • Sass and Rails
  • Working with Rails Layouts
  • Zurb Foundation on Rails
  • Static Pages with Rails
  • Cleanup and Feature Merge
  • Maintaining The Test Suite
  • Polishing Rails Applications
  • Creating an App Tutorial
  • Blank Slates and Rails
  • Email with Rails
  • Remember Me
  • Rails Deployment
  • Building the Profile Page
  • Testing the Whole App
  • Rails Routing
  • Writing Tests
  • Customizing Ruby on Rails Forms
  • GET and POST Requests in a Browser
  • Introduction to HTTP
  • Getting Started with CSS Transitions
  • Types
  • Ruby on Rails Authentication
  • Rails Frontend Development
  • Getting Started With Rails
  • Ruby Standard Library: Part 2
  • Ruby Standard Library: Part 1
  • Ruby Core
  • Store Inventory Using Modules
  • Include and Extend
  • Ruby Core Modules
  • Ruby Module Basics
  • Input and Output
  • Search
  • Ruby Class Design
  • Variables and Constants
  • Blocks Practice
  • Working With Blocks
  • Ruby Blocks
  • Build a Simple Todo List Program
  • Ruby Booleans
  • Build a Bank Account Class
  • Ruby Variables and Methods
  • Getting Oriented - Object-Oriented, That Is
  • Ruby Objects and Classes
  • Build a Simple Contact List
  • Ruby Iteration
  • Ruby Loops
  • Build a Grocery List Program
  • Ruby Hashes
  • Ruby Arrays
  • Ruby Logical Operators
  • Ruby Control Structures
  • Ruby Operators
  • Date and Time Functions
  • Aggregate and Numeric Functions
  • More TODO with the MEAN Stack
  • Creating and Editing Data in a MEAN App
  • Setting Up MongoDB
  • Going MEAN with Angular
  • Going MEAN with Express
  • Introduction to MEAN
  • Gems In Depth
  • Ruby Gems
  • Immersive Examples
  • Scope and Loops
  • More Operators
  • Operators and Conditionals
  • Working with Text
  • Ordering, Limiting and Paging Results
  • Understanding Aesthetics
  • Data Types and Variables
  • Intro to Objective-C
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Basics
  • WWW
  • The Internet
  • Refactoring with Sass
  • Moving Forward with UX
  • Tools UXers Use
  • Introducing Sketch
  • Installing Sass and Setting up the Project
  • Gradients
  • Web Typography
  • Backgrounds and Borders
  • CSS Box Model
  • Text, Fonts, and Lists
  • Values and Units
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Selectors
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Password Resets and Testing
  • Adding User Support to Our Application
  • Password Hashing and Sign-In
  • 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?
  • Handling Errors When Manipulating Data
  • Deleting Data from a Database
  • Updating Data in a Database
  • Adding Data to a Database
  • Building and Customizing the Blog
  • How UXers Think
  • Hosting with GitHub Pages
  • Treehouse Club - CSS
  • Getting Started with Jekyll
  • 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
  • Welcome to the Treehouse Club
  • AR Extensions
  • Callbacks
  • Query Interface
  • Validation
  • Migrations and Relationships
  • Finding the Data You Want
  • What Do User Experience Designers Do?
  • What is User Experience (UX)?
  • Introduction to ActiveRecord
  • Getting Data from a Database
  • Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4
  • Data, Databases and SQL
  • Soft Skills - Psychology
  • Writing Online
  • Productivity
  • Creating a Long Term Business
  • Protecting Yourself With Contracts
  • Establishing a Proper Workflow
  • Business Plan for Freelance Business
  • Business Plan Basics
  • Advanced Sass Concepts
  • Ruby Methods
  • Ruby Numbers (Ruby Basics)
  • Ruby Strings (Ruby Basics)
  • How Ruby Works
  • Installing a Ruby Development Environment
  • Cocoapods
  • The Logo Sprint
  • What is the MailChimp API
  • PHP Includes
  • Moving Beyond the Blog
  • Finding Business
  • Creating Content
  • Introduction to Blogging
  • DNS Basics
  • Graphic Basics
  • Perfecting the Prototype
  • Speeding up Workflow With Sass
  • Better SEO Through Tools
  • Better SEO Through Code
  • Better SEO Through Content
  • Introduction to SEO
  • Website Basics
  • Variables, Mixins, and Extending Selectors
  • Using your New Tools
  • Getting Started with Java
  • Getting Started with Sass
  • Going Mobile
  • Designing Email with CSS
  • Coding HTML Email
  • HTML Email Basics
  • Interactive Visualizations
  • Styling and Scaling Data
  • What's New in Foundation 5
  • Build a Website With Foundation
  • Go Further With Mongo
  • Working With Collections
  • Understanding MongoDB
  • Getting Started with MongoDB
  • MASH JavaScript
  • MASH CSS
  • MASH HTML
  • Treehouse Club - JavaScript
  • Data Binding with D3
  • Selections with D3
  • Exploring Ember
  • Ember Data
  • Models
  • Controllers
  • Routes and Templates
  • Getting Started with Ember.js
  • Improving Our Todo App
  • Services in Angular
  • Using Angular's Built-in Directives
  • Controllers and Scope
  • Getting Started with Angular
  • Improving your Gulp Workflow
  • Compile Sass with Gulp
  • Gulp your JavaScript workflow!
  • Welcome to Gulp.js
  • Doing More with Express
  • Serving Static Files in Express
  • Using Templates with Express
  • The Request and Response Objects in Express
  • Developing Express Apps Like a Boss
  • Getting Started with Express
  • Updating and Uninstalling Packages with npm
  • Installing Packages with npm
  • Prototyping With Foundation
  • What is npm?
  • Finishing the Prototype
  • Grid Layout and UI Components
  • Getting to Know Foundation for Apps
  • Protecting and Sharing Your Work
  • Licensing
  • Fair Use and Public Domain
  • Getting Started with Copyright
  • HTTP Methods and Headers
  • Creating a Basic Template Engine in Node.js
  • Handling Routes in Node.js
  • Creating a Simple Server in Node.js
  • Building a Command Line Application
  • Introduction to Node.js
  • Customizing the User Experience in WordPress
  • Default User Roles in WordPress
  • An Overview of User Roles and Fields
  • The Walker Class for WordPress
  • Custom Menu Fields in WordPress
  • An Overview of Menus in WordPress
  • Using a jQuery Carousel
  • Add a Sticky Navigation Bar
  • Introducing jQuery Plugins
  • Keyframe and Line Drawing Animations
  • Transitions and Transforms
  • Working with Media Queries
  • CSS Animation Basics
  • Understanding CSS Transitions and Transforms
  • Understanding Flexbox and Multi-Column Layout
  • Building a Layout with Flexbox
  • Flexbox Properties
  • Understanding Flexbox
  • Art Direction with the Picture Element
  • Image Delivery with Srcset and Sizes
  • Forms
  • Tables
  • Objects
  • Links
  • Lists
  • Text
  • Introduction
  • The Production Server
  • The Staging Server
  • The Local Development Environment
  • Introduction to Design
  • Combine and Minify Assets
  • Optimize Assets
  • Measuring Performance
  • Planning for Performance
  • Chrome DevTools Basics
  • Web Apps
  • Websites
  • Introduction
  • Quiz Practice Project
  • Prototypal Inheritance
  • Constructor Functions & Prototypes
  • Introduction to Methods
  • AJAX and APIs
  • jQuery and AJAX
  • Programming AJAX
  • AJAX Concepts
  • Responsive Patterns
  • Media Queries
  • Responsive Theory
  • Custom Media Players
  • Captioning Video
  • Media Basics
  • Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript
  • Selecting Elements and Adding Events with JavaScript
  • JavaScript and the DOM
  • 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
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Loops
  • Build a Website With Bootstrap
  • Prototyping With Bootstrap
  • Grid Layout
  • Flexbox Layout
  • Positioning Schemes
  • Float Layout
  • Creating an SVG
  • Introduction to SVG
  • Display Modes
  • Positioning Page Content
  • CSS Layout Project
  • Page Layout with the Float Property
  • Controlling Layout with CSS Display Modes
  • Getting Started with CSS Layout
  • Structuring Tables
  • Table Basics
  • Choosing Options
  • Organizing Forms
  • Form Basics
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
  • Introduction to Front-End Frameworks
  • Selectors - Beyond the Basics
  • Connecting to MySQL
  • How to Install WordPress on Your Computer
  • Workflows
  • Working With Remote Repositories
  • Merging
  • Branches
  • Getting Started With Git
  • Why Version Control Matters
  • Installing Programs
  • Environment and Redirection
  • Console Processes
  • Console Users and Permission
  • Moving Around in the Console
  • Database Security
  • Queries & Results
  • Getting Started with PDO
  • Securing and Maintaining a MySQL Database
  • SQL Calculating, Aggregating and Other Functions
  • Joining Relational Data Between Tables in SQL
  • Manipulating Schema with SQL
  • Creating Tables and Manipulating Data with SQL
  • Reading Data from Databases with SQL
  • Installing MySQL Server and MySQL Workbench
  • Introduction to Data, Databases and SQL
  • Contact Forms & Mailers
  • Slim and Templates
  • Dependency Management
  • PHP Inheritance & Interfaces
  • PHP Properties & Methods
  • PHP Objects and Classes
  • Presentation Skills
  • Important Skills For Professional Success
  • Professional Development
  • Applying & Interviewing
  • The Job Search
  • Networking
  • Personal Branding
  • Setting Your Course
  • Careers in the Tech Industry
  • Self-Assessment
  • PHP Internal Functions
  • PHP Returns & Closures
  • PHP Functions Basics
  • PHP Loops
  • PHP Conditionals
  • PHP Datatypes
  • PHP Data & Structure
  • PHP Getting Started
  • Launching and Supporting a WordPress Plugin
  • Building WordPress Template Tags, Widgets, and Shortcodes
  • Connecting WordPress Plugins with 3rd Party APIs
  • Building a WordPress Plugin Settings Page
  • How WordPress Plugins Work
  • Customizing the WooCommerce Cart and Checkout Process
  • Starting a Custom WooCommerce Theme
  • Cart, Checkout and Account Templates and Hooks
  • Global and Product Templates and Hooks
  • Getting Started with WooCommerce Theme Development
  • SEO Plugins for WordPress
  • Enhancing the SEO of a WordPress Theme
  • Content Comes First
  • Custom Dashboard Widgets
  • Controlling Admin Navigation
  • Customizing the Login Screen
  • Admin Color Schemes
  • Custom WordPress Customizer Settings
  • Native WordPress Customizer Options
  • Overview of the WordPress Customizer
  • Hooking Into WordPress Plugins
  • Action Functions in WordPress
  • Filter Functions in WordPress
  • An Overview of Hooks in WordPress
  • Add Bootstrap Components to WordPress Theme
  • Create Bootstrap Styled Theme Templates
  • Setup a Bootstrap Theme
  • A Template Hierarchy Review
  • Media Templates in WordPress
  • Custom Post Type Templates
  • Archive Templates in WordPress
  • Page and Post Templates in WordPress
  • Homepage Templates in WordPress
  • Core WordPress Theme Files
  • How WordPress Templates Work
  • Finishing Your WordPress Theme
  • Custom Homepage Templates in WordPress
  • Adding a Blog to a WordPress Theme
  • Custom Post Type Templates
  • Building Out WordPress Navigation
  • Building Page Templates in WordPress
  • Pricing and Project Proposals
  • Finding Your First Project
  • The WordPress Loop
  • WordPress Header and Footer Templates
  • Working with CSS and JS in WordPress Themes
  • Starting a WordPress Theme
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Conditional Statements
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Variables
  • Starting a Freelance Career
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • Fundamental Concepts
  • Designing with the Latest Features
  • Basic Layout
  • The Box Model
  • Understanding Values and Units
  • Basic Selectors
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • 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
  • More Advanced PHP for WordPress
  • PHP Basics for WordPress
  • Introduction to PHP for WordPress
  • Local WordPress Development
  • WordPress Plugin Best Practices
  • Widgets and Custom Menus
  • Custom Post Types and Fields
  • Customizing WordPress Themes
  • Installing Wordpress
  • Running an Ecommerce Site Long Term
  • Extending WooCommerce
  • Managing Orders in WooCommerce
  • Managing Products in WooCommerce
  • Setting Up WooCommerce
  • Introduction to Ecommerce with WordPress
  • Logo Design 101
  • WordPress Themes
  • Finding Good WordPress Plugins and Themes
  • Managing Comments on a WordPress Blog
  • Working with Media in WordPress Blogs
  • Posts and Pages in WordPress
  • Blogging with WordPress Overview
  • WordPress Admin Settings
  • WordPress User Roles
  • The WordPress Codex
  • Owning a WordPress Site Long Term
  • WordPress Community Management
  • Working with Media in WordPress
  • Adding and Editing Content
  • Getting a WordPress Site
  • Getting Started with WordPress
  • HTML First
  • Beginning HTML and CSS
  • Website Basics
  • Newbie