My First Android App
The video is a demo of my final project for CS50 - the famous Harvard Intro to Computer Science online course. I highly recommend the course to any self-taught programmer. It was a blast!
Android App Demo VideoSoftware developer with editorial background
Hi there!
My name is Marta, and I write code for a living. It wasn’t always like that — in fact coding became my full-time job only in 2018. Long before that, as a teenager, I played around with HTML and CSS, made a few websites, but ultimately decided to study Japanese in university.
It was only after I got an MA in East Asian Studies and worked in publishing that I tried JavaScript, saw the results in my browser, and was instantly hooked.
From 2016 to 2018 I was on fire, working my publishing job during the day, writing code at night, and dreaming of the future when I would be coding during the day and playing video games at night.
As a result, what you see in the “Projects” section below are apps and websites I built while learning programming before 2018. The majority of code I wrote afterwards is now a bunch of green tiles on Github, with the exception of my first (and so far last) Android app, which I built in 2020 while taking CS50.
Enjoy my silly apps! I particularly recommend the meowing keyboard, proven to draw cats' attention.
The video is a demo of my final project for CS50 - the famous Harvard Intro to Computer Science online course. I highly recommend the course to any self-taught programmer. It was a blast!
Android App Demo VideoI made my first React app while at Bridge School, before I learned Redux, so it relies on component state. Functional programing aside, the highlight for me was adding an orange slice for the loader.
React Recipe SearchWes Bos's JavaScript 30 is a challenge in writing everything in pure JS, with preference for ES6. To keep up the challenge, I built my landing page without libraries as well, including the menu and routing.
Marta's JavaScript 30Fun trumped programming at Toronto's 2017 Stupid Hackathon, where my brother (full-stack dev) and I came up with a truly useless wireless string telephone. He made the videos, I made the website.
Stupid HackathonThis simple website was my playground for fixed backgrounds. Since I needed content, I wrote an article about best practices in selecting photos for textbook illustrations.
Photo ResearchA poet friend asked if I could write a poem in code. I built a choose-your-own-adventure poem with jQuery. I was going for an old terminal feel, but you actually have to click.
Programmed PoemWhen I worked in a publishing house, I was building interactive exercises that students would use with their textbooks. Here I used jQuery UI for a drag'n'drop paragraph sorting activity.
Sortable ParagraphsThinking of data visualization without using a separate library, I came up with an animated bar chart made out of divs: the values to be shown become the bars' percentage widths.
Bar Chart