Student Webinars

Watch one of these recorded videos created by your fellow classmates! There's tons of great content here to help you through your coursework.

To see the full list of student webinar recordings, check out the Google Drive HERE.

Offline First: Making Your App Awesome When the Network Isn't

In this beginner-friendly session, MWS student Teri Chadbourne demonstrates how to build an offline-capable Progressive Web App using only client-side JavaScript and easy-to-use tools: PouchDB for local data storage, Apache CouchDB™ for remote storage, and a service worker for resource caching. With this simple Offline First approach, you can stop treating shoddy connections as an error condition and start building with real-world network constraints in mind. (Check out Teri's repo and additional resources at: http://bit.ly/OfflineFirstProjectManager)

Date of webinar: March 24, 2018

Visual Studio Code LiveShare Extention Pack

Ramona Saintandre goes over the basic's of using Visual Studio Code LiveShare and it's features

Date of webinar: September 19, 2018

Making Time When You Have No Time

Jenna Koslowski from the Super Sloths shows what technique she used to create more time in her day to progress quicker through the FEND Nanodegree.

Digital Accessibility Part I: Focus on HTML and CSS

Michael Jackson reviews logical tab order, semantic tags, color contrast ratios, effective alt-text, default font size. Tools to help you pass your ND projects!

Date of webinar: September 9, 2018

Interview with a Software Engineer

On September 9th, 2018, SabrinaT and Michael Jackson hosted a webinar and question/answer session with Andrew A, a software engineer! Andrew is a backend software engineer at a Silicon Valley startup focussed on improving efficiency at hospitals through data analytics. Andrew discusses topics such as his tech background, day to day work life, interest in software development, and more—complete with an amusing smash cut and some "amazing" video editing skills.

Date of webinar: September 9, 2018

The Unintended Consequences of Slacking Off on Your Udacity Project to Play Video Games (aka Free Online Coding Games Webinar)

Donna talks about the websites available online that will help you improve the coding skills that you already have and help you learn the new skills & languages that you need - for FREE!

Date of webinar: September 14, 2018

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Learn SCSS - A preprocessor for CSS (Sassy CSS)

Keep your CSS easy to update, share, and believe it or not, write! Hosted by Deborah Castiglioni from FEND

Date of webinar: September 8, 2018

Closures/modular pattern with the timer project

A closure is an inner function that has access to the outer functions' variables. Carlos F from FEND shows how we can utilize closures to implement the modular pattern: Creating object modules that can then be reused in other code.

Date of webinar: September 8, 2018

Learning Kotlin

Android Dev student Sepideh teaches how to go about learning Kotlin!

Learning Kotlin slides here

Date of webinar: September 5, 2018

A General Introduction to JavaScript Debugging

Ryan Boris from FEND provides a very light introduction to the topic of JavaScript debugging is introduced and a very real showing of how debugging could occur is presented.

Date of webinar: August 15, 2018

Clickable ListView items with clickable buttons

Anna Scott from ABND goes over creating clickable ListView items with clickable buttons. It is one of the possible ways to meet some of the requirements for the capstone project of ABND - Inventory App, part 2

Using Git for Projects

AND scholar, rsherry goes over the basics of using git and github for projects. He also covers a more advanced topic (branching) towards the end and takes student questions.

This webinar can also be watched here.

Service Workers for Progressive Web Apps

Darren Seet [MWS] will be Introducing the concept of Service Workers and diving deep into PWAs. We will go into what role the Service Worker plays in PWAs and the additional functionality that it brings to the web application. We will also look in a code sample that shows the registration lifecycle of a service worker and how to make use of the service worker events to provide functionality that lives outside the web application code. Finally, we will look at some quirks and things to take note of when using service workers. Access Darren's slides here.

Tyler-FEND's FEND Project 3 Webinar

The Super Sloth's very own Tyler-FEND hosts a webinar on Project 3 (Arcade Game Clone) for Udacity's GwG Scholars.

Saving Exoplayer state on screen rotation

AND student, James Fody covers how to handle screen rotation with Exoplayer related to the Baking App Product (Project 4)

Note: Please use this link or click the title above to access James' video: http://jamesfody.com/Tutorials/ExoplayerStateWebinar.html

How to use GitHub desktop app

ABND student, Brenda Deverell, goes over how you can use the https://desktop.github.com/ to publish a local repository to Github with your first commit, how to add and remove a file, and how to confirm those changes are visible in GitHub. The GitHub desktop app is a great tool if you don't need to or don't know how to use the terminal yet.

Using common terminal commands

Brenda Deverall goes over the most commonly used commands that I have come across and find useful. If you never used the terminal before, you might find this video useful.

How to use the terminal with github

If you are looking to get started with the Terminal app on your Mac to work with GitHub, this is the video for you. Brenda Deverell covers the config, how to make your first commit and push it to a remote repo as well as branching, merging, and checking diffs amongst other commonly used git commands.

Widget Basics

Chuck Robinson from AND reviews a few techniques for developing Android Home Screen Widgets

Building Technology for Good

Tech4Good is a presentation oriented to inspire all the fellow members of the Google Udacity Nanodegree opportunity, give them tools that I find very useful for my personal journey and engage them into the use of our new Super Power - Coding - as a tool to build a better community, a better world and have impact for good.