Hello.
I'm Lara Bjork, and these are some of the projects I've started as a student at Epicodus, as well as a little bit of information about me.
Projects
These are presented in the order that they were completed, although sometimes we revisited projects to incorporate a new skill. Unless otherwise indicated, links will take you to a GitHub repository.
Epicodus's curriculum emphasizes pair programming.
Thank you to all my pairs for working through these together!
Day 1
- hello-world: For the traditional "hello world" entry into programming, we used HTML, incorporating the tags h, p, ul, and li.
- goodbye-world: Once again, we used HTML, incorporating the tags h, ul, and li.
- cookie-recipe: This page added additional HTML tags to our repertoire, including html, head, body, img, and a. We inserted a link and an image for the first time.
- my-first-webpage: This repo includes multiple HTML pages, a CSS stylesheet, and a basic README file in Markdown. This exercise gave us good practice in spacing and indenting code to make it more readable.
- uma-webpage: This project uses HTML and CSS and includes a link.
Day 2
- resort: This repo has multiple pages that use HTML and CSS to present a fictional resort, as well as a basic README file in Markdown. This exercise also involved branching so that we could create two different themes using CSS. Our instructor selected our "green_theme" for the site, and we retained our "blue_theme" branch, too.
Day 3
- blog: This repo has several different practice exercises within it.
- blog.md: This travel blog page uses Markdown.
- blog2.html: This food blog page uses HTML and CSS. We also added div classes.
- boring-lecture.html: This page uses HTML and CSS. We also added div classes. It's mostly placeholder text but there is an image.
- index.html: We took the content of our blog.md page and put it into HTML and CSS. We changed the file name to index.html and also added new CSS classes and an image.
- resume: This page uses HTML and CSS, emphasizing the use of div and span classes. Among other aspects, we used linear-gradient for our background-image and experimented with position for our image.
- band.html: This page also uses HTML and CSS, with the addition of float, margin, padding, and border.
- animal-shelter.html: For this HTML and CSS webpage, we included the div class column and added @media-query to allow for responsive sizing.
- media-query-practice: In HTML and CSS, we used boilerplate text to try out media queries for responsive sizing.
Day 4
- week-in-review-2: This page uses HTML and shows our first uses of Bootstrap elements, including container, Jumbotron, and helper elements.
- vacation-site: This site uses HTML and Bootstrap, including a responsive grid using rows and columns for the first time.
About Me
Before I signed up for the Epicodus program, I had been a grant writer and technical editor for 18 years. That's a long time spent meeting deadlines and attending to details. I was drawn to coding because there's always something to learn, because I like solving logic puzzles, and because I still really like working at a detailed level but zooming out to get the big picture, too.
When I'm Not Coding...
- Stories: Writing, listening, watching to them
- Pictures: Especially printmaking, drawing, and photography
- Making stuff: Knitting, origami, cookies, bread
- Puzzles: Crosswords, sudoku, jigsaw puzzles
Issues I Care About:
- Ending homelessness
- Undoing legacies of discrimination
- Art as a way to promote empathy and connection
- Walkable and bikeable landscapes
- Patient-centered health care
Some Favorites:
- Books: Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series, Myla Goldberg's Bee Season, Jane Austen's Persuasion
- Restaurants: Bröder, Beeswing, Gado Gado
- Vacation spots: Whidbey Island, Oregon coast, Lake Tahoe—anywhere else that's near water
