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The routine of the work week and the pressure of our job responsibilities can often get the best of us. However, whether it's putting more effort into your job, or finding one that makes you truly happy, its time to commit to your career.
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mrbryantet63 Sep 22, 2018, 9:12 PM"Day 23: A beautiful day today for the start of Autumn (RIP Summer). Got a late start this morning and encountered two new challenges as I recorded my video. First, my late start had me contending with the glare of sunlight, which I normally don't deal with early in the morning (lots of shade is an advantage on a bright day, especially early). And second, I had a bit of a breeze to deal with. It wasn't a cold breeze but it did move the branches around a bit and that made the glare a bit unpredictable, as the sunlight kept shifting from minute to minute. One moment I was in shade and all was fine. The next thing I knew I had glare coming at me from the side and it made concentrating on my video a bit tougher. It was hard to focus, and I was concerned that my viewers wouldn't be able to see me very well. I had to do several "takes" to get it right, which actually worked to my advantage because I ended up rehearsing my material several times. By the time I did a decent recording I had a better handle on what I wanted to talk about; I didn't have any memory lapse in the midst of my talk which helped and there was more consistent shade. So everything actually worked out in the end, despite all the challenges. And best of all I was satisfied with things not being perfect. Maybe it is true that when you're not perfect you can relate better to others. I'll keep that lesson in my hip pocket moving forward. It won't stop me from seeking to improve but at least I won't beat myself up if things don't go exactly a certain way. Getting better and better."View my Commitment -
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neiltigh Sep 22, 2018, 8:24 PM"Reporting success; without real world result. I will give £20 instead to charity."View my Commitment -
tinyspeed Sep 22, 2018, 8:05 PM"Applied to Boeing, AVS, Login, Effects via Indeed and company websites on Tuesday. Listed 4 things on offer up on Tuesday"View my Commitment -
joshmrallen Sep 22, 2018, 7:58 PM"Watching the solution video and comparing the solution file with mine. for centering, use Center(). In the TextOutput file, you only really need to use Text() with the return statement. But mine worked out too. In all, good first assignment! Continuing on with the next lecture. I'm a little lazy today so I might watch it straight through first, then watch it a second time, stopping at parts that weren't clear. I'll use the bookmark feature the first time through so I know which parts to stop at on the second watch. Now going through it a second time. This is my kind of lecture -- where I can control the lecturer. Going to move the button into its own widget and pass state from the product manager file to the button's widget. Ah, I see -- the setState call is in ProductControl -- we import ProductControl into ProductManager and call an instance of ProductControl inside the build method of ProductManager. I see now. We keep the one Widget stateful and give that Widget access to all the other widgets. "So the product manager is the connecting widget which reaches out to all these widgets that do change or need the state. The question now just is how can I pass the information that this button was pressed in the product control up to the product manager so that they can then set the state in the product manager?" Creating a new method in product_manager to solve this -- using void since we aren't returning anything and using an underscore since we don't want anyone to directly use this class (or import or access any of its methods and properties) except for product manager widget. Now we cut setState from Product Control and add it to the new method in Product Manager, since control widget can't access the state directly, but product manager, being a stateful widget, can. Now we want this new method that we added to product manger, addProduct, to execute whenever we press the button. But the button is in a different widget. What do we do? Ohhh, I see now. In ProductManager, we have addProduct. We call can instance of ProductControl() since we're importing the widget, and then pass addProduct for its argument. Then, I go back to the ProductControl widget and call the constructor, "ProductControl()", and pass a new argument that will receive the value of addProduct evertime the code is executed. We'll use final because we don't want it to be changed unless we recreate the instance again. We'll also use a type -- until now, we've used String mostly, now we're going to use Function, which tells us all that this value is a function. Whoops, almost forgot to use this.addProduct right here. THIS is one of the rare moments apparently in Dart that we get to 'this'. Now, in the onPressed method inside of the build() method of ProductControl, we call addProduct as if it were a function, because once the code runs, it will be a function which ProductManager defines and passes to the constructor and subsequently, the ProductControl widget. I passed a string to the addProducts function inside of the onPressed method in the ProductControl method. This is almost just like passing state between module/files in React/JSX. Awesome!! This is great and very exciting. The next video promises to be very enlightening and discusses the differences between const and final. "View my Commitment -
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reshreshus Sep 22, 2018, 7:23 PM"I don't watch YouTube video about video games today and tomorrow"View my Commitment
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reshreshus Sep 22, 2018, 7:19 PM"I can't use VK except for music today and tomorrow"View my Commitment
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lamars Sep 22, 2018, 2:58 PM"2018 09 22 Created How to Find a Solo Ad Vendor on Facebook video"View my Commitment -
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safibta Sep 22, 2018, 7:02 AM"This journal entry overrides the previous ones SYSTEM: •Youtube* rules: no YouTube. •* these rules also apply to the following websites: all the sites listed on any of the following lists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_hosting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:News_websites https://bit.ly/2eyWdIy •i.e. wherever the word youtube (case not sensitive) is used, youtube may be replaced by any of the websites on the aforementioned Wikipedia links or in the following websites: Reddit Twitter Imgur Facebook mp3juices.cc vk.com netflix accessing movies bought on Google Play Movies & TV app. How to access any of the sites restricted by aforementioned rules: 1. Start a 30 minute timer on the device from which I intend to access the website / app from 2. Tear a 1000 won currency note into pieces 3. The sites are allowed to be accessed until 1 minute later than the alarm time This commitment can be modified by updating this journal entry with a new one. Changes take effect 30 minutes after the update time of the journal. - Mindful eating: - can use my phone only after I activate the mindful eating applock profile - if the phone is not in the Mindful Eating applock profile, then I must make it that the first thing before using the phone (best thing to possibly work here is the very simple steps: 1. lock all, 2. unlock only the app needed here i.e. evernote, and 3. unlock the private notification feature of applock so that imp notifs arent lost) - Mindful restroom: - can use my phone in restroom only after I activate the mindful restroom applock profile - if the phone is not in the Mindful Restroom applock profile, then I must make it that the first thing before using the phone - unlocking chrome app is allowed after counting 1 to 100. (best thing to possibly work here is the very simple steps: 1. lock all, 2. unlock only the app needed here i.e. evernote, and 3. unlock the private notification feature of applock so that imp notifs arent lost) - Penalty: $10 per violation For until 6 october 2018 (AOE time) or until my MSTJP is submitted to the journal (whichever happens until 22 September 2018, AOE time), all associated charges on me in this commitment (including the Stickk penalty and the 1000 won note tearing on certain websites) shall be overridden by a penalty of $100 for each violation except for a 2 hour block on Saturday when penn and teller's episode is released. This Block must be decided at least 1 hour in advance. "View my Commitment -
safibta Sep 22, 2018, 6:52 AM"I commit to reaching office on 6:50 a.m. every day This commitment will have to be renewed by writing "renewed" in the journal (along with any updates in the contract) on 23 September 2018, 25 September 2018, 28 September 2018, and 3 October 2018. If it isn't renewed, the commitment will be revoked. This commitment doesn't hold on Saturdays South Korean Time Violation penalty per instance (i.e. per defaulted day): 5,000 Korean wons torn on that day before 9 p.m. (otherwise the amount increases by 5,000 South Korean Wons every 6 hours thereafter)"View my Commitment
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osyrus11 Sep 22, 2018, 6:46 AM"I did do it twice, but failed the rest of the week. oh well. switched up some stuff, added decluttering, actually got into the music once here, so hopefully this takes off this next week"View my Commitment -
safibta Sep 22, 2018, 6:41 AM"This journal entry overrides the previous ones SYSTEM: •Youtube* rules: no YouTube. •* these rules also apply to the following websites: all the sites listed on any of the following lists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_hosting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:News_websites https://bit.ly/2eyWdIy •i.e. wherever the word youtube (case not sensitive) is used, youtube may be replaced by any of the websites on the aforementioned Wikipedia links or in the following websites: Reddit Twitter Imgur Facebook mp3juices.cc netflix accessing movies bought on Google Play Movies & TV app. How to access any of the sites restricted by aforementioned rules: 1. Start a 30 minute timer on the device from which I intend to access the website / app from 2. Tear a 1000 won currency note into pieces 3. The sites are allowed to be accessed until 1 minute later than the alarm time This commitment can be modified by updating this journal entry with a new one. Changes take effect 30 minutes after the update time of the journal. - Mindful eating: - can use my phone only after I activate the mindful eating applock profile - if the phone is not in the Mindful Eating applock profile, then I must make it that the first thing before using the phone (best thing to possibly work here is the very simple steps: 1. lock all, 2. unlock only the app needed here i.e. evernote, and 3. unlock the private notification feature of applock so that imp notifs arent lost) - Mindful restroom: - can use my phone in restroom only after I activate the mindful restroom applock profile - if the phone is not in the Mindful Restroom applock profile, then I must make it that the first thing before using the phone - unlocking chrome app is allowed after counting 1 to 100. (best thing to possibly work here is the very simple steps: 1. lock all, 2. unlock only the app needed here i.e. evernote, and 3. unlock the private notification feature of applock so that imp notifs arent lost) - Penalty: $10 per violation For until 6 october 2018 (AOE time) or until my MSTJP is submitted to the journal (whichever happens until 22 September 2018, AOE time), all associated charges on me in this commitment (including the Stickk penalty and the 1000 won note tearing on certain websites) shall be overridden by a penalty of $100 for each violation except for a 2 hour block on Saturday when penn and teller's episode is released. This Block must be decided at least 1 hour in advance. "View my Commitment
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safibta Sep 22, 2018, 6:39 AM"SYSTEM: •Youtube* rules: no YouTube. •* these rules also apply to the following websites: all the sites listed on any of the following lists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_hosting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:News_websites https://bit.ly/2eyWdIy •i.e. wherever the word youtube (case not sensitive) is used, youtube may be replaced by any of the websites on the aforementioned Wikipedia links or in the following websites: Reddit Twitter Imgur Facebook mp3juices.cc accessing movies bought on Google Play Movies & TV app. How to access any of the sites restricted by aforementioned rules: 1. Start a 30 minute timer on the device from which I intend to access the website / app from 2. Tear a 1000 won currency note into pieces 3. The sites are allowed to be accessed until 1 minute later than the alarm time This commitment can be modified by updating this journal entry with a new one. Changes take effect 30 minutes after the update time of the journal. - Mindful eating: - can use my phone only after I activate the mindful eating applock profile - if the phone is not in the Mindful Eating applock profile, then I must make it that the first thing before using the phone (best thing to possibly work here is the very simple steps: 1. lock all, 2. unlock only the app needed here i.e. evernote, and 3. unlock the private notification feature of applock so that imp notifs arent lost) - Mindful restroom: - can use my phone in restroom only after I activate the mindful restroom applock profile - if the phone is not in the Mindful Restroom applock profile, then I must make it that the first thing before using the phone - unlocking chrome app is allowed after counting 1 to 100. (best thing to possibly work here is the very simple steps: 1. lock all, 2. unlock only the app needed here i.e. evernote, and 3. unlock the private notification feature of applock so that imp notifs arent lost) - Penalty: $10 per violation For until 6 october 2018 (AOE time) or until my MSTJP is submitted to the journal (whichever happens until 22 September 2018, AOE time), all associated charges on me in this commitment (including the Stickk penalty and the 1000 won note tearing on certain websites) shall be overridden by a penalty of $100 for each violation except for a 2 hour block on Saturday when penn and teller's episode is released. This Block must be decided at least 1 hour in advance. "View my Commitment
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joshmrallen Sep 22, 2018, 5:04 AM"Have a call with a few people today. 11am -- been looking over his company's website all morning. recruiter with the 3rd party recruitment service, Closeriq, at 3pm. 4:30pm Conversation went well, I think. I didn't ask any questions, but sent them in my follow up email. He will talk to his boss who's in Australia and set up a call for Monday or Tuesday. I'm adding a notification to send an email on Sunday night for follow up so he sees it Monday morning, first thing. Next one is at 4:30 today. Look up the job on AngelList and go over every page on their website. 4:30 got rescheduled to Sunday at 2pm. Did some research on their company (screenshot of the video from their profile on angel list). The call with the recruiter went well -- I'm expecting her email with a few options. "View my Commitment
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joshmrallen Sep 22, 2018, 4:58 AM"Starting a little bit late today, but hey, it's Friday. I get to sleep in tomorrow. The constructor we added in Products.dart: Products(this.products) can have {} but we can't use a semicolon because it's not a .... function? It is a type of method though, oh right -- methods don't get semicolons. Just added this line to that constructor: print('[Products Widget] Constructor'); Is the equivalent of console.log? Yep, this link confirms it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21028751/how-do-i-print-to-the-console-with-dart We're adding these print functions to see when in the code it's being executed. This is apart of the debugging process. Just a quick note, you can run the flutter app you're working on just by hitting fn+F5 while using VSCode. F5 is the start debug command. It also has the added benefit of printing things out ont he debug console AND will update the emulator every time you change and save the project. Whoa, this is cool. I'm seeing the order that those part of the code are being executed. Adding a method to the state: didUpdateWidget next video talks about material design. adding material design to main.dart, within MaterialApp(), using: theme: ThemeData() whoa cool. primarySwatch specifies the color scheme -- no wait, it's a class and you choose color properties. So if you know the basic design widgets, you can explore pretty easily how to design. Here, we used: theme: ThemeData( brightness: Brightness.light, primarySwatch: Colors.deepOrange, accentColor: Colors.deepPurple ), And you can do this for any widget. In the example, we put them at the top of each widget's code block. Dart! the colors are static properties. You can see more info about these by holding command (or control on a mac) and clicking on it. VSCode is awesome. this allows you to see all the properties you can use. It's like having the code documentation right here for us. Named arguments: putting brackets around the argument we passed inside of the parentheses of the Products() constructor: define a default value here by setting it equal to something. override that default value by setting the property equal using a colon. He's doing some other things with this whole Named argument thing, putting the whole thing within square brackets: [] "You can also set optional arguments for positional arguments." I'm not sure exactly what he means but here's what I'm doing next: If it's optional, you have to wrap the entire argument in square brackets. Products([this.products = []]) { print('[Products Widget] Constructor'); } Official Dart language docs/website: dartlang.org Assignment time! // 1) Create a new Flutter App (in this project) and output an AppBar and some text // below it // 2) Add a button which changes the text (to any other text of your choice) // 3) Split the app into three widgets: App, TextControl & Text Ok, so I pretty much did it, but I still don't know enough about the material design widgets. I couldn't get it aligned right and for some reason it didn't load the jpg I wanted to use. Also had to look up 'AppBar' on google. That's the general term for the the bar at the top or side where everything tends to happen in an app. I'm going to look at the solution tomorrow!. Night for now. "View my Commitment
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lamars Sep 21, 2018, 7:46 PM"2018 09 21 Created How To Use Gmail Canned Responses video"View my Commitment
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smileeeee Sep 21, 2018, 6:03 PM"I must start studying hard in order to pass my November 2018 exam and be a CA final student "View my Commitment -
mrbryantet63 Sep 21, 2018, 4:31 PM"Day 22: Got up early today...was looking forward to recording this video but couldn't really say why. Even when I got to my spot this morning I wasn't sure what I'd discuss but I knew I had to get this off my chest. Had to rehearse it several times for two reasons: First, because I wanted to make sure it didn't run too long. I try to keep my videos shorter than twelve minutes. And second, because today's topic is a bit sensitive for me, even emotional, and I didn't want to risk losing it on camera. So I got it out of my system beforehand to make sure I could stay composed as much as possible before I turned the camera on and started recording. I believe those who see the video will understand why. I was pleased that it didn't run too long, and just as pleased that I didn't lose my train of thought while I was speaking. So it was all good."View my Commitment
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DaveST Sep 21, 2018, 8:54 AM"Another video done. Had a problem with my right today. Kept going and posted on Facebook."View my Commitment
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singhdaddy Sep 21, 2018, 7:19 AM"Installed infrastructure, the emulator should work now. "View my Commitment -
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joshmrallen Sep 21, 2018, 1:58 AM"Beginning at 7:52pm In this video, we'll be splitting up the code we just wrote into individual widgets. Make a new file that contains the code for rendering the list of products. Each file is read as a stand-alone file, so you have to import flutter packages again: import 'package:flutter/material.dart'; Since we're just rendering the list, and the information is being changed somewhere else, in this file, we'll make a stateless widget. We add a constructor by repeating the class name and adding parentheses. When you make a property, like we just did with List<String> products; it's at first uninitialized -- which means it doesn't have a value when you initially write it in. Ah, here's where this comes back. We'll use that property that has no value to the parameter of the constructor: Products(this.products); --> notice the semicolon -- since we declare the property, there are no curly braces for this constructor, I suppose. This is a good question for later. Since we're in a new file, we don't need whatever we were using the '_' for. Refer back to Wednesday 9/19 for a reminder: "the underscore is just a convention for classes that should not be usable by other parts or other" Green squigly line thanks to the property we added that will be initialized once by the constructor, but won't change ever again afterwards. We have to tell flutter that a property in this stateless class is unchangeable (immutable) by using a keyword: final final List<String> products; Products(this.products); This is dragging. He's a great explainer and it really helps but the follow-along style is making me really restless. I really should have stuck with the codelabs. Ok, feel much better going ahead and then playing the video to see if I was right. So the widget we create in one file can be used just like the library widgets -- the IDE will highlight is with special text-coloring and everything. You just have to import it. Strange, just now had that weird red screen. So I exited the build in terminal and ran it again. No change to the code and it worked. Something about reloading and the iOS emulator, possibly? Anyways, now our code-so-far is super readable. States are slightly different and the main thing to concentrate on is the widget tree. Max says: "you want to work with stateless and stateful widgets, use as many stateless widgets as possible and have a few stateful widgets managing the information." We're going to make the app more dynamic and get information for the products list from outside of the app. added a constructor and a string for the parameter for the ProductManager widget. "Now we got the green squiggly lines that should be immutable class, Stateful widgets are all about having state where the data can change, right? That's true but it changes in the state class not in the widget class, the two are linked together, but the widget is technically a separate object." Use the keyword 'widget' to access the properties of a linked class. I see, it's like using the this keyword, with a dot and then the property name, except this is specifically for linked classes. Only to be used in methods, not initialization, so we're using the initState() method. Notice 'super'. "Super always refers to the base class you're extending so to the state class here and it simply calls initState on that base class to make sure that it is called there." Oh, I see. When we call the Product widget in main.dart, we pass the parameter a string and that's what goes into the state in the ProductManager widget. Yay, we made it slightly more dynamic and it still works. Why didn't we use setState? "And if you're wondering why we are not calling setState here, even though we are changing our state. The reason why we don't call setState here is because as I said initState runs before build runs and therefore there is no need to tell flutter that the data changed, it didn't render something to the screen already so there is no need to re-render." Here's some sort of disclaimer: " You learned that you have to call super.initState() in there and that you should put it at the end of your initState() implementation. It's now actually recommend to move it to the beginning, though it will not influence the way your code runs. So the code shown in this course will still work fine without any issues. But to follow the official recommendation and code style, you should use this code: @override void initState() { super.initState(); _products.add(widget.startingProduct); } " Ok, so no biggy, when you write in initState() there, super.initState() goes at the beginning, much like how in React you have super() at the top of the constructor. That's it for now. "View my Commitment
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thescad Sep 21, 2018, 1:53 AM"Need more focused approach, increased speed & quality of work."View my Commitment -
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joshmrallen Sep 20, 2018, 10:32 PM"Starting this morning with Indeed again. Did about 20 and actually spoke to 2 real people today, but one of them was from a recruitment service. The other is from a company and he scheduled a call with me for tomorrow at 11am. Researched the company a bit."View my Commitment
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reshreshus Sep 20, 2018, 7:39 PM"Red List: -perform 5 hours of Studying my University subjects. -perform 2 deku of fitness research. -2 deku of anki rebuilding. -2 hours of TP I commit to perform the Red list and to perform: -No playing Overwatch or listening to music before performing the red list and before 10 pm. -at least 1 deku of Envision after 10 pm."View my Commitment
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DaveST Sep 20, 2018, 6:12 PM"Getting there. Another recording done in my kitchen. I think its about 9 more to go."View my Commitment
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madsfull Sep 20, 2018, 4:27 PM"I am happy to report that I have stuck to my commitment thus far!"View my Commitment -
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shunya Sep 20, 2018, 2:21 PM"at end of course 2. worked a little with tensorflow also. learning tensorflow and keras. "View my Commitment -
borisblade Sep 20, 2018, 9:50 AM"Gestern Optimize.Me Greatest Year Ever Heute ebenso meine aktivitäten im drive sheet dokumentiert vision review begonnen."View my Commitment -
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TamaraRB Sep 20, 2018, 4:18 AM"I'm running a little behind according to what I'd planned but I'm getting the work accomplished!"View my Commitment -
joshmrallen Sep 20, 2018, 2:30 AM"Beginning now, 8:36pm. when running the flutter run command, if I use the flag '-d all', then it'll run the flutter app on all devices that are connected. So if I open the AVD and Simulator and use 'flutter run -d all' it'll build to both at the same time! Remember that to access the iOS emulator, you have to go to terminal and enter 'open -a Simulator' About the button we added, 'add products' -- it should add more product cards when pushed. But it's empty at the moment. In order to make the button work, we'll need to use a statefull widget ... and use code to update state every time the button is pushed. A stateless widget is a simple version that accepts new data ... but no state? ... and just allows you to build a widget tree. It won't recall the build method if some data changes. That's what the statefull widget will do. "state can simply be translated as data that you're working with." -- Max "Stateful widget are useful when the part of the user interface you are describing can change dynamically, e.g. due to having an internal clock-driven state, or depending on some system state. For compositions that depend only on the configuration information in the object itself and the BuildContext in which the widget is inflated, consider using StatelessWidget." createState() is for StatefulWidget. createState() creates an object called State and then <StatefulWidget> specifies that the State object belongs to StatefulWidget. State object here is kind of like the constructor method in React, right? <...> is a generic type -- it gives more information to another type. 'State' as we added it is a class from the flutter package. Calling a 2nd class and calling it _MyAppState flutter will respect the underscore you use. I forget exactly what he said about its use in flutter: "the underscore is just a convention for classes that should not be usable by other parts or other" class _MyAppState extends State<MyApp> {} it's telling flutter that this is the state of MyApp -- these two classes are connected through this. MyApp needs to return _MyAppState() -- the parentheses instantiate it: "Now _MyAppState as I said keeps the build method and my app needs to return _MyAppState now, so return _MyAppState and instantiate it by adding the parentheses." You have to memorize this setup for using stateful widgets in flutter. Next part is Managing data inside of stateful widgets. I'm adding a property at the top of _MyAppState called products. It can be called whatever you want it to be. Dart is a "very type-ful language" so we want to specify a type. products will be an array of strings -- but in Dart, array is now as a list. List<String> products List and String must be capitalized. When I use a property in the class, I don't need to use this.propertyName, I just directly reference the name. We still have red squigly lines, so we're going nest Column with _products.map inside it. But it still won't work -- need to call the toList() method. I'm loving this shift+option+F readability format shortcut!! Awesome, now the button registers when we tap it but we haven't provided the info for it to display yet. " class _MyAppState extends State<MyApp> { List<String> _products = ['Food Tester']; @override Widget build(BuildContext context) { return MaterialApp( home: Scaffold( appBar: AppBar( title: Text('EasyList'), ), body: Column( children: [ Container( margin: EdgeInsets.all(10.0), child: RaisedButton( onPressed: () {}, child: Text('Add Product'), ), ), Column( children: _products .map((element) => Card( child: Column( children: <Widget>[ Image.asset('assets/food.jpg'), Text(element) ], ), )) .toList(), ) ], )), ); } //build method } //class _MyAppState " Using setState now. Had some sort of error: "I/flutter ( 4208): Another exception was thrown: type 'MyApp' is not a subtype of type 'StatelessWidget' " I closed the iOS emulator and reran on only one device, AVD, and it works like Max's does. Okey dokey. So learned a few more awesome things here about dart, not needing this.whatever, and the state being a bit updated to handle. The list we made is hardcoded and can't even scroll. The next section will begin making it more dynamic and 'app-like.' "View my Commitment
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indra1990 Sep 20, 2018, 2:10 AM"Done with first week of Text Mining. Looking forward to post exciting updates in the next week."View my Commitment -
indra1990 Sep 20, 2018, 2:09 AM"This week I finished two introductory courses on Text Mining, which is a crucial application of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Text Mining helps in parsing texts, filtering out important text and quality information from large documents. An important application of text application is filtering out of spams from all emails.Text mining helps in ranking relevant information based on search queries. Being a motivated product manager aspirant, I want to understand how to use text mining to serve the society. This week I was working on a project on how to understand if a email is a spam or not based on the contents of the email and the sender email address. I learnt that there are some statistical difference in patterns of data based on word counts between spam and other emails. My commitment for next week is to understand some more in-depth concepts of text mining and how they help in email classification. "View my Commitment
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mrbryantet63 Sep 19, 2018, 10:07 PM"Day 21: Overslept this morning which kept me from thinking too much about the topic I wanted to discuss. Turned out it was a good thing because all I had to do was get situated in my regular spot and turn the camera on. I spent a few minutes rehearsing which helped because I needed to get my mind focused and figure out the pace of what I would say before I began recording. The few minutes rehearsing helped me to relax and say what I wanted to say without losing my train of thought. I got it done this morning and felt relief along with accomplishment at the same time. Having nice weather after the remnants of that tropical storm passed over helped a great deal. I was relaxed and got through it, even with a short-term lapse. No worries. The countdown is on to the final 10 days and I'm looking forward to finishing this challenge strong. #GettingBetterAndBetter"View my Commitment
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joshmrallen Sep 19, 2018, 9:42 PM"Got up on time. Completed a total of 64 today: 20 on Indeed 44 on Angel list"View my Commitment
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reshreshus Sep 19, 2018, 8:00 PM"I commit to perform the Red list and to perform: -No playing Overwatch or listening to music before performing the red list and before 10 pm. -at least 1 deku of Envision after 10 pm."View my Commitment
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reshreshus Sep 19, 2018, 8:00 PM"Tomorrow I have to perform the Red List. Red list: -perform 5 hours of Studying my University subjects. -perform 2 deku of fitness research. -2 deku of anki rebuilding."View my Commitment
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reshreshus Sep 19, 2018, 7:59 PM"A new experiment, tomorrow: I can't study in the dorms, except for -fitness research -anki repeating. In the University I can't: -use YouTube on my phone -listen to music -watch videos about video games."View my Commitment
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orogal Sep 19, 2018, 7:04 PM"It's been difficult-- I'm doing my podcast with my friend so we both have to be available, and I'm still learning editing as a skill, but it's also been really fun!! I love hearing the feedback of my family and friends and its nice being able to post something that I'm proud of. "View my Commitment -
michaelkgaines Sep 19, 2018, 5:14 PM"Day 1: Today I will create a development store for Taylor."View my Commitment -
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Aviator2 Sep 19, 2018, 12:22 PM"so far going forward and keep reading 4 pages per day"View my Commitment -
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DaveST Sep 19, 2018, 11:25 AM"One more video done and posted. Had 2 tries at this one."View my Commitment
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Lambo11 Sep 19, 2018, 11:19 AM"didn't write an article wwanted too but 'too tired'"View my Commitment -
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JoelCov1 Sep 19, 2018, 11:14 AM"It's becoming a lot more automatic now. Every time i write it's something completely different and I get to look back on the progress I am making. Next week i will create a new commitment to stick to."View my Commitment -
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borisblade Sep 19, 2018, 9:01 AM"Gestern stickk installiert und meine vision im aktuellen stand gelesen. Heute das Comittment erstellt und nun ein bisschen arbeit am drive-sheet um meine aktuellen action items zu präzisieren."View my Commitment
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khadhirjack Sep 19, 2018, 8:34 AM"1st day of getting something done which makes go near to this goal"View my Commitment -
macaosam Sep 19, 2018, 5:52 AM"I commit to: 1.Produce a Youtube video in English per week (5 mins at least) I nailed it this morning. I am planning to produce 2 videos every week. This video sharing is something I like. 2. Write 2 articles in English per week. (300 words per article) I often combine 2 articles in 1 every week. So, I need to write 600 words for each one. It is fine for my situation. 3. Practice Acentsway 4 hrs per week and finish all 8 modules by November. That is the most difficult one I can't handle it well. But I keep finding alternative to follow it through. 4. Read an English book per month. it is a cup of tea. 5. IELTS practice ( 3 items out of Listening, Reading, Writing or Speaking) per week. I use my Sunday marrickville road church time and spoken drill with carmen. Today is the first episode. So far, i am doing good regardless having a long way to go. "View my Commitment -
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joshmrallen Sep 19, 2018, 2:34 AM"I want to focus some more time into Flutter since I want to have a working app by october 1st. So I’ll devote all 2 hours tonight to the Flutter course. Updating Flutter — new version just came out. Going to create my first ‘root widget’ with the teacher here. So far: " import 'package:flutter/material.dart'; main() { } class MyApp extends StatelessWidget { build() { }//build method }//class MyApp " build() parameter will be context: build(context) use a return statement to draw the widget to the app: “ class MyApp extends StatelessWidget { build(context) { return something; }//build method }//class MyApp “ Rule: “A widget always needs to return another widget in the build method.” “…unless you use a widget that ships with flutter.” Example: return MaterialApp; Yay, VSCode updated flutter for me! Still amazed how it opens terminal in a section of the editor for you. Amazing!! using home: Scaffold(), as an argument in MaterialApp. Scaffold is a flutter library provided widget. VSCode is awesome. Every time I want to learn about what I can use with a widget, I just have to hover the mouse over the name of that widget, see the pop up box, then hit ctrl+space and see the options! Whoa — In preferences, looked up keyboard shortcuts and searched for format document like max did here — shift+option+F and it’ll format your code to be more readable — automatically!! But all of this doesn’t put anything on the screen yet. Main() {} will do that. The white background comes from scaffold. The entire app we just drew to the screen is wrapped in the MaterialApp widget. Oh, so this is the real widget tree. All the language being used here is dart. Adding Widget in front of build does something -- or ensures something. Ensures that a widget is what we expect to return in this build method. This build method type is widget -- we can do the same for anything it looks like. These types or classes are provided by the flutter package. Using these will ensure that we don't make mistakes -- it's supposed to return a widget, but we put a string or something else by mistake, it's going to tell us. main doesn't return anything -- so we add 'void' in front of it to tell the IDE and the compiler and ourselves that it shouldn't return anything. Using types like void, Widget, BuildContext are highly recommend and allows you to write cleaner code. Arrow syntax in dart looks like this: void main() => runApp(MyApp()); No curly brackets. Using some command that's an object called @override. Hover over it to see the explanation. It helps with readability, telling a team of developers that it is overriding something: "if we're working in a team of developers, this makes it very clear that this is a method that actually overwrites a method defined by this widget and that makes our code easier to read." Adding cards and images is next. open close carrots show that the inside is widgets only: <> [] are for arrays specifically. To use an image, go to pubspec.yaml file in the project folder. So, by default, the pubspec.yaml file will have a section specifically for images. In order for flutter to know it you must create a folder called assets and provide the file path in pubspec.yaml: assets: - assets/food.jpg Remember that #-tags are for comments. Delete the hashtag you see in front of assets. Then, in the Image widget, use add .assets: Image.assets -- no, not assets, that'll give an error. it must be asset, singular. You're specifying just the one. Image.asset is correct. Then add the file path as a string as a parameter to that: Image.asset('assets/food.jpg'), Once you've added everything, in terminal, press 'r' to hot reload and it'll show the new stuff on the emulated device. Wow, amazing! Maximilian says that these are the core widgets. Added the flutter documentation to my bookmarks in the flutter folder on the bookmarks bar. Click on widget catalogue. Use the Column widget to add lists of info display widgets like cards. button content could be text or an icon It reall prompts you. I added onPresed: () {}, but we're keeping it empty for now. Added: margin: EdgeInsets.all(10.0) to the Container widget Parameter is in number of pixels. That is awesome and really straight forward!!! I want to make an ereader app for learners of chinese haha. In due time! I can hard code a simple one, I'm sure and show it at the StudyJam. "View my Commitment
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Rahsel Sep 19, 2018, 1:08 AM"I was consistent in writing two days, and the thought at writing others days was hard because I did not feel like I had anything to say that would make my outline more depth. But I recently learned some strategies of starting with a blank document each time and to write in those random moments when I feel inspired."View my Commitment -
csimp Sep 19, 2018, 12:11 AM"I went to the library and met with my group today to continue my success towards my goal. "View my Commitment -
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mrbryantet63 Sep 18, 2018, 10:55 PM"Day 20: Found myself racing the clock this morning. The remnants of Tropical Storm Florence were supposed to arrive sometime today so if I wanted to make an outdoor video I needed to get up and get moving in a hurry. I caught a break; the clouds were thick but not dark, and the breeze helped me stay focused as it was very humid, and also kept the bugs away from me so I could concentrate. My topic changed from early this morning. I thought I'd be talking about one thing as I woke up this morning but by the time I got outside my mind went in a totally different direction. Not to worry; I was able to sit down, turn on my webcam, and get my message on video without any real trouble. I may have spoken with a bit more urgency this time around, mainly because it was windy (and I wasn't sure when the rain would begin to fall) but also because in the distance behind me I could swear I saw what looked like a flash of lightning, possibly headed my way. I think it's safe to say I was sufficiently motivated if you know what I mean. For some reason, I didn't have much trouble getting my point across...maybe it was because I didn't want to do the whole thing over again after scrambling around to find another place to record my video (preferably a DRY PLACE) I just said what I had to say, got it off my chest. Sometimes that's the best way for me to speak when I can just pour it all out and walk away from my talk empty, yet satisfied because I have a sense of "mission accomplished" when I'm done. I like that feeling and especially the knowledge that I let it all hang out (figure of speech) for someone else's benefit and didn't worry about what anyone thought of me while I was talking. Truly a win-win for me."View my Commitment
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joshmrallen Sep 18, 2018, 10:03 PM"Morning! I’m thinking I might work a little bit on the Aumattic and close.io ones, a little bit at a time. Also ended up applying to about 20 places on angel list. That’s it for today. "View my Commitment
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hjeb20 Sep 18, 2018, 9:48 PM"I filled in my spreadsheet with the details of potential suppliers. However I got a bit frustrated trying to work out the documents required to import food contact materials "View my Commitment -
hm94 Sep 18, 2018, 6:40 PM"Onc didnt require 8 hrs a day, but regardless, this week should be good "View my Commitment -
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Lana44 Sep 18, 2018, 5:44 PM"In order to start the days off right, I walk to school for 15 minutes outside rather than taking the bus "View my Commitment -
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DaveST Sep 18, 2018, 2:58 PM"Wanted to do a recording outside today, but where I was going to do the video was to noisy. Had to settle for the usual indoors one."View my Commitment
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natmille Sep 18, 2018, 2:50 PM"Met my goals this week. Excited by how I've been relative good about balancing my time, but need to find some extra motivation as things get busy. "View my Commitment -
cannm Sep 18, 2018, 2:32 PM"I successfully listened to atleast 30 min of a podcast each day last week/this week. It has worked well for me to listen each morning on the bus back to campus after practice."View my Commitment
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jezstar2005 Sep 18, 2018, 7:02 AM"Affirmations 100%. I will create a new design this week"View my Commitment -
Lucif Sep 18, 2018, 5:05 AM"Can I say yes, even though I did it today because I felt like death yesterday...?"View my Commitment -
KristiDeWitt Sep 18, 2018, 4:22 AM"Round 8 of edits to the product graphics! Also ordered the USB units!"View my Commitment -
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joshmrallen Sep 18, 2018, 3:04 AM"Morning! Its now officially the second half of September. I’m continuing on with applying. Definitely going to apply to that nice Glassdoor list too. Aim for 8, I suppose. Applying to Getty Images. 7am: First one down. And I had breakfast. Nice. Onto the glassdoor list I made for myself. Looking into Toptal. Interesting company. And typing it here just made it apparent to me that Toptal is an amalgamation of Top and Talent. Woo — their entire company is distributed all over the world and it’s awesome. Looks like there’re some questions to answer, much like the zapper application. I need to take my time with these. Ok, satisfied with my responses. Onto the next. That’s, ugh, only 2 so far. I’m updating my wordpress site and profile — I know they’ll be watching. Lots to do on this application. This is taking a bit too long. I’m going to prioritize this for another day. I’m moving on for now. 2 down. 4 more to go. 3 to go -- finished 1. Well, didn't get 8, but I did get 6 all together."View my Commitment
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joshmrallen Sep 18, 2018, 3:01 AM"Someone said they used this, which was easier to follow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48699820/how-do-i-hide-api-key-in-create-react-app I’m going to continue with the review for an hour and then go on to Flutter. Comments from Reviewer: 1. [x](Important) This should be stored in an environment variable. See the section on this in the create react app docs. 2. [](Important) Here instead of using a callback to catch the error, use .catch 3. [](Important!) Here, playlistTracks is not defined. I think you are trying to access this.state.playlistTracks, however, this would also not be a good idea. The react docs specifically warn against directly modifying state in react. With .push you are modifying the array in place. Instead, create a new array with the desired tracks and use this.setState({ playlistTracks: youNewArray }). 4. []Remember to store sensitive information like a client ID in an environment variable. Also, prefer .catchto handle errors in a promise chain and use new objects with .setState to update React state. Ok, I just added this to gitignore in my project. Good site to reference for hiding api keys in the future. I know i’m going to need it: #api key .env Still not sure if I need to ‘import’ anything. apparently React knows — if it comes across anything with REACT_APP_ in its name, to look at a .env file. Good stuff. Continuing on to the next review comment, the 2nd one above where he references line 64 of Spotify.js and says ‘use .catch instead of a callback function to catch the error.’ Right, forgot about that. I think it’s on a boilerplate somewhere, right? As always, stack overflow has an answer: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47099066/correct-way-to-catch-fetch-errors-in-react I’m not entirely sure how to replace it here. I’m afraid I’ll mess it up haha. Don’t I need to us a conditional to check the response? Yes, you still need to, that’s what .catch does if the reason is in the function in its parameter. So, fetch(blahblahurl).then(blahblah).catch( () => { response.ok ? (return response.json()) : console.log(“oh no!”); }).then()…… Maybe not, but I’m grasping it better; plus found a cool site fro this GitHub site referenced: https://gist.github.com/odewahn/5a5eeb23279eed6a80d7798fdb47fe91 https://www.tjvantoll.com/2015/09/13/fetch-and-errors/ Lots more info on how fetch() works at that second link. I’m moving on to Flutter. Hah, he recommends vscode, just like everyone at the study jam last monday. Hmm, how to run it again? flutter run? Haha, yes flutter run when you cd into the project directory. I changed it like he did, I made it increment by 2 and it’s doing it, right on the emulated device. Awesome! Material Design. I see, it’s something you use within Flutter that you can customize as much as you want. Teacher says you should frequently check for updates to flutter. Great learnings are guaranteed — he highly recommends participating the Q&A. Whoaaa, vscode has a terminal feature so you can code and use terminal at the same time — amazing. Creating a new project and deleting everything in main.dart. .idea folder is for android studio. android and iOS folders are important because they hold he native code. build folder contains the code for building the project pubspec.yaml file configures your overall project and its depencies — important for using phone camera and more. Everything that gets rendered onto the phone screen happens in the main() function that you define in main.dart. So widgets are pretty much the graphic-logic system of flutter. In React you have JSX, but for flutter, you have widgets. This is great! He explains things really clearly and it’s very easy to follow along. I’ll probably end up submitting whatever project I made in this course to Nitya haha. I should do as long as I can this coming Sunday, 8-10 hours, if possible. I’m calling it a night now. "View my Commitment
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tonytonggg Sep 18, 2018, 2:16 AM"This week is an important week, going through the launch process physically and mentally."View my Commitment -
tonytonggg Sep 18, 2018, 2:16 AM"Right now my first launch feels like a failure, but I am happy I accomplished what I had set out to do, which is to launch on Producthunt. I have gained decent experience from this (not to mention created a baitpiece for life) that I can always use to add value to other people! Next product would be a web app! Happy to be moving to something tech-related!"View my Commitment
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tonytonggg Sep 18, 2018, 2:14 AM"Good news: - Finally launched on Product Hunt, after going through Preview Hunt and reading up on related articles - Got my NOC article featured on The Ascent, a top 100 Medium Publication - Got my Ananda Newsletter 10 upvotes in its day Improvements: - Product did not make it to "Popular Section". Perhaps something techy or a greater audience before that would have helped - Also having beta users submit "pro cons" comments would have helped - Learning lesson is that having an early burst of traffic really helps"View my Commitment
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