# Full Stack Session 1- Bryan Zublin's Self Assessments **URL:** \ **Category:** Open Source Ruby Plugin (CA) 2021\ **Created:** [June 12, 2021, 8:18am UTC](http://staging.stemaway.com/t/full-stack-session-1-bryan-zublins-self-assessments/8087 "2021-06-12T08:18:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bzublin](https://d3rzmptxz7fqzy.cloudfront.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/46344e/32.png) [@bzublin](http://staging.stemaway.com/u/bzublin)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2021, 8:18am UTC](http://staging.stemaway.com/t/full-stack-session-1-bryan-zublins-self-assessments/8087/1 "2021-06-12T08:18:11Z")
Week 1 self assessment ---
**Author:** ![bzublin](https://d3rzmptxz7fqzy.cloudfront.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/46344e/32.png) [@bzublin](http://staging.stemaway.com/u/bzublin)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 5:51am UTC](http://staging.stemaway.com/t/full-stack-session-1-bryan-zublins-self-assessments/8087/2 "2021-06-23T05:51:42Z")
Week 2 Self Assessment - Technical Area - Tools - Soft Skills - Three achievement highlights - Detailed statement of tasks completed ---
**Author:** ![bzublin](https://d3rzmptxz7fqzy.cloudfront.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/46344e/32.png) [@bzublin](http://staging.stemaway.com/u/bzublin)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 8:44am UTC](http://staging.stemaway.com/t/full-stack-session-1-bryan-zublins-self-assessments/8087/3 "2021-07-02T08:44:17Z")
Week 3 Self Assessment (Some of this self-assessment is copied over from the self-assessment I did for this topic during the training sprints) Overview of Things Learned - Technical Area - Tools - Soft Skills Three achievement highlights - Refreshed my memory on HTML - Refreshed my memory on CSS - Learned about Discourse theme creation Detailed statement of tasks completed - Read the required readings about Discourse themes, the Discourse theme CLI, using Firefox’s developer tools, etcs - Downloaded the Discourse Theme CLI on Ubuntu (WSL) - Cloned the theme template - Made a new branch for my theme: [GitHub - mentorchains/FS-Pathway\_RemoteTheme at bryanz](https://github.com/mentorchains/FS-Pathway_RemoteTheme/tree/bryanz) - Imported my branch into discourse as a remote theme - Made some changes to the after\_header section and added a footer section - Played around a bit with a Discourse theme, using firefox’s developer tools to inspect the Discourse site, then committed my changes and added the remote theme to my Discourse install ---
**Author:** ![bzublin](https://d3rzmptxz7fqzy.cloudfront.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/46344e/32.png) [@bzublin](http://staging.stemaway.com/u/bzublin)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2021, 6:17am UTC](http://staging.stemaway.com/t/full-stack-session-1-bryan-zublins-self-assessments/8087/4 "2021-08-20T06:17:39Z")
Week 4 Overview of Things Learned - Technical Area - Tools Three achievement highlights - Learned more about Discourse theme creation - Learned about AJAX - Learned about the virtual DOM Detailed statement of tasks completed - Read the Handlebars guide, Discourse Handlebars template guide, virtual DOM guide, etc. - Re-read the Ember guide to refresh my memory - To practice with HandleBars, I used JSFiddle to make a simple site that would display an array of students [Edit fiddle - JSFiddle - Code Playground](https://jsfiddle.net/6nv3tg2w/) - Experimented modifying various templates and removed view counts and profile pictures for topics in discourse - Looked at AJAX examples in the Discourse code base Challenges - Initially it was difficult to juggle learning about JavaScript, HTML, and other things all at the same time, but with enough work and time I pushed through ---
**Author:** ![bzublin](https://d3rzmptxz7fqzy.cloudfront.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/46344e/32.png) [@bzublin](http://staging.stemaway.com/u/bzublin)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2021, 10:27am UTC](http://staging.stemaway.com/t/full-stack-session-1-bryan-zublins-self-assessments/8087/5 "2021-08-20T10:27:44Z")
Overview of Things Learned - Technical Area - Tools Three achievement highlights - Learned more about Discourse theme creation - Learned about Yaml and how it is used - Learned to use modifiers in a theme Detailed statement of tasks completed - Read guides on adding settings to Discourse theme, adding localizable strings, addding theme modifiers, and using Font Awesome - Added settings and some localizable strings to my theme - Added a star icon to my theme using theme modifiers - Replaced like icons with the star icon Challenges - I tried updating my Discourse install and it broke