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Course Blocks - First Post & Back End

BY: @jeffbernst | CREATED: March 8, 2018, 12:11 p.m. | VOTES: 54 | PAYOUT: $179.81 | [ VOTE ]

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I’ve been working on this project for almost two months, but this is my first submission to Utopian. 🙂

This is my second of three projects that I’ll complete as part of the full-stack flex curriculum at Thinkful.

Project Summary

I’m creating a site where anyone can create and enroll in courses for free. It will not require registration to view any of the courses, but an account will allow users to track their progress.

[IMAGE: https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1520510620/qr7bna84nyveafadggnk.gif]

The first phase of the project will be built with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Node, and Mongo, and handed in as my second capstone project with Thinkful. After I finish the web development program in a few months, my plan is to completely rebuild the front end in React and then connect it to the Steem blockchain. Here is a video I made on DTube that explains my larger plans. The three main components are:

  1. a site to create and enroll in courses
  2. a community for each course that is either a forum or Stack Overflow style question and answer section
  3. a marketplace where students can find tutors for help with courses through video chat

I don’t have a timeline for the second two components, but I’d like to finish the first phase of the site (just to create and enroll in courses) this month.

Current Status

The first phase of the project isn’t ready to be released yet. I created the basic functionality for the front end, and just completed a pull request that added the basic functionality for the back end.

The GIF above gives a sense of what the front end is currently looking like. There is a home page to display and discover the courses, a course page where students can view the courses — a collapsible sidebar on the left shows the parts of the course, and the content is displayed in the center of the screen. The editor to create courses looks similar to the standard course page.

On the back end I used test-driven development with Mocha and Chai to add the necessary end points. I’m using Passport for authentication with JSON web tokens.

Next

Over the next week or so I’m planning on returning to the front end code. I’d like to create a site that’s pretty much fully functional on the front end (using local storage to mock up my database). There are several minor things that need to be tweaked before I hook up the back end. Here are some of the things that are currently on my list:

Feedback / Contributions

I’m currently in the process of learning web development full-time, so I’m very open to absolutely any suggestions or advice about my code. Feel free to leave a comment on this post or on Github. I’m getting pretty excited about this project and I want it to be as good as possible.

Thanks for reading! 🙂

Posted on Utopian.io - Rewarding Open Source Contributors

TAGS: [ #utopian-io ] [ #steemdev ] [ #dev ] [ #steem ] [ #sndbox ]

Replies

@doelist | March 8, 2018, 12:48 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

Man, I am also work on project. I'ts SO hard(( It's took me monts to make basic stuff without a tutor or PRO programmer. I sometimes feel myself stupid((

@jeffbernst | March 8, 2018, 2:06 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

It's definitely tough for me too >.<

That's awesome you're putting in the effort though! I think creating any project on your own is a big accomplishment. I would highly recommend freeCodeCamp if you're looking for a place to learn. And the community in the forum is really helpful/supportive. Good luck!

@doelist | March 8, 2018, 2:28 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

Do you have some programmers friends? Do they mostly use liblaries?(functions which were made before you, you only add them and they work, 80% copy paste)

@jeffbernst | March 9, 2018, 12:18 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

I don't have any programmer friends in person, just some people that I've met online. I think pretty much everyone uses open source libraries to supplement their projects!

@mslifesteem | March 8, 2018, 3:26 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

Great Step Jeff.

Glad to see you on Utopian. Your project sounds good to me. Move forward and share some more updates than I can give a proper suggestion based on your project.

@jeffbernst | March 9, 2018, 12:17 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

Will do!

@codingdefined | March 10, 2018, 8:22 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Can you please remove the banner at the bottom of the post, as we do not allow such banner in Utopian.io

@jeffbernst | March 10, 2018, 12:18 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Sorry about that! Just removed it.

@codingdefined | March 11, 2018, 3:53 a.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

Thank you for the contribution. It has been approved.

You can contact us on Discord.
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@jeffbernst | March 11, 2018, 7:32 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Thank you! 🙂

@k9disc | March 11, 2018, 9:13 a.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

I am very interested in an instructional project on the Steem Blockchain.

I run disc dog freestyle and dog training classes on WP using Learndash. I've had a couple hundred people through them. I'm looking to do some dog training/dog sports stuff on the blockchain.

Please keep me in the loop.
peace~

@jeffbernst | March 12, 2018, 3:11 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

Thanks for bringing Learndash to my attention -- looks really neat! That's awesome you've already been successful in your course creation efforts. I'm really hoping I can have my project live and connected to steem within a few months.

Thanks for reading! :D

@k9disc | March 12, 2018, 4:20 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

It's a real nice system from an admin/instructor POV. Several question types and simple workflow.

Have you given much thought to instruction on the blockchain and what that means?

Is anyone doing pay to play access with Steem? Can you even do that?

@jeffbernst | March 13, 2018, 1:51 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

You mean just having a system where people can pay STEEM for access? Yeah I definitely think that would be possible, but for me it's more exciting to take the angle of free courses where instructors and students can both earn money for upvotes. There are a ton of different directions it could be taken in though!

@k9disc | March 13, 2018, 2:16 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

Repeated content? How would that work?

@jeffbernst | March 13, 2018, 2:53 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

You mean how could students and teachers both earn from upvotes? Sorry I'm confused now too 😆

@k9disc | March 13, 2018, 3:22 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

How would content work. Only vote-able for 7 days. Would you have static content and do discussion? Or would you generate new content weekly?

Do comments and discussion on old content pay out?

@k9disc | March 13, 2018, 5 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

I'd love to chat about this. Any particular place you'd like to hang out sometime?

@jeffbernst | March 14, 2018, 3:35 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

Yeah good idea, maybe move over to steemit.chat or discord? My username is jeffbernst on both

@cutemachine | March 11, 2018, 8:58 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

Jeff, you did it :) Congratulations to a great contribution.

@jeffbernst | March 12, 2018, 3:07 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Thank you for answering my questions before! Very excited it got accepted! 😀

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