Principles and practices, project management

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Weekly_Assignments

The assignments for the first week are:

set-up ”jekyll foudation markdown”

After setting up a ready made foundation-jekyll-markdown web site as shown in/with this tutorial

and following the tutorial instruction to set up the name of the repository (where I forked the ready made site) with “myusername.guthub.io”

I’m now online!

git and github setting up

I have download a template website in my mac and I try to use git via terminal :

First I cloned the repository locally:

git clone https://github.com/ifala/ifala.github.io

Then I copy the site inside my own folder called “sito_fabacademy”, and added it and its files to virtual index:

git add -A .

With the modifications inside virtual index, I can now commit to my local repository:

git commit -m "sito"

Just before pushing (command - git push) I pulled, so I’m sure that if anybody in the meanwhile made any push I get his modifications:

git pull origin master

Finally I pushed my modifications on the remote repository:

git push origin master

for modify the site I downloaded Textmate , very useful to modify and write in various programming language.

Install Jekyll

As described in this tutorial the best way to install jekyll is via rubygems

Workflow:


$ jekyll serve
  • now, inside http://localhost:4000/ you started a development server where you can control the update of your site before update your github folder by using commit and sinc command.

Kramdown

(updated 31/03/2015)

For building a new post, you must create new file inside the folder _post with this type of configuration:

file: 2015-01-31-week1.md


---
layout: post //in this type of theme exist 3 type of layout: home - page - post 
title: "Principles and practices, project management" // add name of article/post
description: "week 1" // add some description 
category: Class_assignments // add_category 
tags: [jekyll, kramdown, gems, foundation] // add tags directly connected to post
imagefeature: principles-and-practices.jpg // add in the root site an image that is visualize in the start of page with animation (I prefer redimension and add some filter into image)
---

Here you can write the text of your post/page…in KRAMDOWN

  • what is kramdown?

kramdown is a sub language for programming easy web page. You write in kramdown (markdown alternative but very similar) and the jekyll serve translate/convert the code in html.

  • Why use kramdown/markdown and not direct html code?

because is more fast and intuitive (for bold simply add before and after the world “**”)

  • where I can learn to use kramdown?

Kramdown (markdown too) is really well documented, here I finded all that I need to make page, insert image, tab, paragraphs etc etc.

Foudation5

(updated 31/03/2015)

“Foudation is a responsive front-end framework” wikipedia

using the pre-compiled CSS file I gave a modern apparence to my site.

for a better experience of use consider to look the documentation here

Font Awesome

(updated 31/03/2015)

Useful scalable vector icon used by css for color size etc etc…

icon list

example how to compose html icon code 


### Font Awesome <i class="fa fa-circle-o-notch fa-spin"></i>

top menu

(updated 20/02/2015)

verybig

My menu:


links:
  - title: Home
    url: /
    external: false
    icon: home
  - title: aboutME
    url: /about
  - title: final project
    url: /final_project
  - title: classes
    url: /classes

color and customize font

(updated 20/02/2015)

I have created this file to change the font dimension to better control the image size and :

---> /assets/css/vendor/custom.css

.latest_updates {
	list-style: none;
	margin-left: 0px;
	padding-left: 0px;
}

ul.latest_updates li {
	
	padding-left: 0px;
}


.notepad-page-content > div:not(.notepad-page-title) a, .notepad-page-content > div:not(.notepad-page-title) code {
	color: grey;
}

.notepad-page-content > div:not(.notepad-page-title) ul, .notepad-page-content > div:not(.notepad-page-title) ol {
padding-left: 0;
font-size: 1.125rem;
color: black;
}


img[alt="mini"] { 
  max-width:  200px; 
}

img[alt="normal"] { 
  max-width:  450px; 
}

img[alt="big"] { 
  max-width:  600px; 
}

img[alt="verybig"] { 
  max-width:  800px; 
}

Some example to better undestanding difference between image dimension:

original image size (800x600)

verybig

verybig image size max-width:800px

big

big image size max-width:600px

normal

normal image size max-width:450px

mini

mini image size max-width:200px

and add the path file in:

_/includes/head.html_

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="//ifala.github.io/assets/css/vendor/normalize.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="//ifala.github.io/assets/css/vendor/nprogress.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="//ifala.github.io/assets/css/vendor/foundation.min.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="//ifala.github.io/assets/css/style.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="//ifala.github.io/assets/css/post.css">
--->    <link rel="stylesheet" href="//ifala.github.io/assets/css/custom.css">

This is the sequence of files for file creation final css.

difference post visualize btw classes / final project

I wanted to see in a different way the two page, the classes page only visualize the post inside post folder which have categories = class_assignments in reverse “reversed” list of insert date:

\`\`
\`<ul class="post-list">\`
\`<li><time datetime="2015-01-31T00:00:00+01:00" itemprop="datePublished"><span\` \`class="6-psecondary radius label">31 January</span></time> | <a href="/class_assignments/week1">Principles and practices, project management  </a></li>\`
\`</ul>\`
\`\`
\`<ul class="post-list">\`
\`<li><time datetime="2015-02-09T00:00:00+01:00" itemprop="datePublished"><span\` \`class="6-psecondary radius label">09 February</span></time> | <a href="/class_assignments/week2">Computer-aided design</a></li>\`
\`</ul>\`
\`\`
\`<ul class="post-list">\`
\`<li><time datetime="2015-02-16T00:00:00+01:00" itemprop="datePublished"><span\` \`class="6-psecondary radius label">16 February</span></time> | <a href="/class_assignments/week3">Computer-controlled cutting</a></li>\`
\`</ul>\`
\`\`
\`<ul class="post-list">\`
\`<li><time datetime="2015-02-22T00:00:00+01:00" itemprop="datePublished"><span\` \`class="6-psecondary radius label">22 February</span></time> | <a href="/class_assignments/week4">Electronic production</a></li>\`
\`</ul>\`
\`\`
\`<ul class="post-list">\`
\`<li><time datetime="2015-02-28T00:00:00+01:00" itemprop="datePublished"><span\` \`class="6-psecondary radius label">28 February</span></time> | <a href="/class_assignments/week5">3D Scanning and Printing</a></li>\`
\`</ul>\`
\`\`
\`<ul class="post-list">\`
\`<li><time datetime="2015-03-10T00:00:00+01:00" itemprop="datePublished"><span\` \`class="6-psecondary radius label">10 March</span></time> | <a href="/class_assignments/week6">Electronics Design</a></li>\`
\`</ul>\`
\`\`
\`<ul class="post-list">\`
\`<li><time datetime="2015-03-16T00:00:00+01:00" itemprop="datePublished"><span\` \`class="6-psecondary radius label">16 March</span></time> | <a href="/class_assignments/week7">Embedded Programming</a></li>\`
\`</ul>\`
\`\`
\`<ul class="post-list">\`
\`<li><time datetime="2015-03-23T00:00:00+01:00" itemprop="datePublished"><span\` \`class="6-psecondary radius label">23 March</span></time> | <a href="/class_assignments/week8">Computer-Controlled Machining</a></li>\`
\`</ul>\`
\`\`
\`<ul class="post-list">\`
\`<li><time datetime="2015-04-06T00:00:00+02:00" itemprop="datePublished"><span\` \`class="6-psecondary radius label">06 April</span></time> | <a href="/class_assignments/week9">Molding and Casting</a></li>\`
\`</ul>\`
\`\`
\`<ul class="post-list">\`
\`<li><time datetime="2015-04-12T00:00:00+02:00" itemprop="datePublished"><span\` \`class="6-psecondary radius label">12 April</span></time> | <a href="/class_assignments/week10">Input device</a></li>\`
\`</ul>\`
\`\`
\`<ul class="post-list">\`
\`<li><time datetime="2015-04-21T00:00:00+02:00" itemprop="datePublished"><span\` \`class="6-psecondary radius label">21 April</span></time> | <a href="/class_assignments/week11">Output device</a></li>\`
\`</ul>\`
\`\`
\`<ul class="post-list">\`
\`<li><time datetime="2015-04-29T00:00:00+02:00" itemprop="datePublished"><span\` \`class="6-psecondary radius label">29 April</span></time> | <a href="/class_assignments/week12">Composites</a></li>\`
\`</ul>\`
\`\`
\`<ul class="post-list">\`
\`<li><time datetime="2015-05-05T00:00:00+02:00" itemprop="datePublished"><span\` \`class="6-psecondary radius label">05 May</span></time> | <a href="/class_assignments/week13">Networking and Communication</a></li>\`
\`</ul>\`
\`\`
\`<ul class="post-list">\`
\`<li><time datetime="2015-05-10T00:00:00+02:00" itemprop="datePublished"><span\` \`class="6-psecondary radius label">10 May</span></time> | <a href="/class_assignments/week14">Interface and application programming</a></li>\`
\`</ul>\`
\`\`
\`<ul class="post-list">\`
\`<li><time datetime="2015-05-18T00:00:00+02:00" itemprop="datePublished"><span\` \`class="6-psecondary radius label">18 May</span></time> | <a href="/class_assignments/week15">Application and Implication</a></li>\`
\`</ul>\`
\`\`
\`<ul class="post-list">\`
\`<li><time datetime="2015-05-25T00:00:00+02:00" itemprop="datePublished"><span\` \`class="6-psecondary radius label">25 May</span></time> | <a href="/class_assignments/week16">Mechanical design, machine design</a></li>\`
\`</ul>\`
\`\`
\`<ul class="post-list">\`
\`<li><time datetime="2015-06-02T00:00:00+02:00" itemprop="datePublished"><span\` \`class="6-psecondary radius label">02 June</span></time> | <a href="/class_assignments/week17">Invention, intellectual property, and income</a></li>\`
\`</ul>\`
\`\`
\`<ul class="post-list">\`
\`<li><time datetime="2015-06-11T00:00:00+02:00" itemprop="datePublished"><span\` \`class="6-psecondary radius label">11 June</span></time> | <a href="/class_assignments/Project_Development">Project Development</a></li>\`
\`</ul>\`
\`\`

I can’t find the code mode syntax to visualize the correct information but is like:

open with {+% for post in site.categories.class_assignments reversed closed with %+}

verybig

final project page only visualize the post inside post folder which have featured: true.

What I learned

To build my own site, is funny ! jekyll-kramdown-foudation5 and also font anwsome are really easy to implement in the site, and online you can find a lot of example for using it! Definitely in this week I discovered a new method to build a very good site,fast and easy to update using github! To search final project is difficult for my mind. In the end I followed the way to learn something new thing about electronic and programming, unexplored world for me.

here is list of “focus thing” that I will learn/improve:

  • understand electronics components
  • microcontroller programming
  • programming some micro for control it
  • wireless comunication between own “hardware made”
  • programming apps to control it

in the end but not of minor importance, I want something modular!

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