Getting stuck is the hardest thing about learning computer programming.
While working my way through Free Code Camp, I was stuck on the Random Quote Generator project. It’s part of their intermediate front end development certification.
Luckily, I had been applying to Hack Reactor and was conditionally accepted as soon as I completed the Pre-course Accept (PCA) program. While working through the PCA program with a big group of Hack Reactor people, we had the same project as Free Code Camp. We were to build a random quote generator.
So I used their random JavaScript algorithm to display random quotes at the click of a button. Very basic jQuery.
Heres the thing… the quotes are really funny. How could this be more useful?
It’s pretty clear that the random quotes were crafted by people who started the schools. The folks who came up with the first Hack Reactor curriculum.
So I wrote a short click to tweet algorithm and generated the quotes so they were easily shared on twitter. Now, anyone who wants to spam the founders of hack reactor with random quotes can do it with ease.
This is just for fun of course. A little mischievous fun on the internets. Despite the fact that I didn’t end up attending Hack Reactor, my experience learning with them for the PCA portion of the bootcamp was excellent.
Anyways, here’s how it turned out: