Sprint Challenge: Advanced CSS -- Influential Artists

Read these instructions carefully. Understand exactly what is expected before starting this Sprint Challenge.

This challenge allows you to practice the concepts and techniques learned over the past week and apply them in a concrete project. This Sprint explored Advanced CSS and JavaScript fundamentals. During this Sprint, you studied preprocessing, variable declaration, conditionals, loops, functions, arrays, and objects. In your challenge this week, you will demonstrate proficiency by creating a website for recipes with data from a JSON object.

This is an individual assessment. All work must be your own. Your challenge score is a measure of your ability to work independently using the material covered through this sprint. You need to demonstrate proficiency in the concepts and objectives introduced and practiced in preceding days.

You are not allowed to collaborate during the Sprint Challenge. However, you are encouraged to follow the twenty-minute rule and seek support from your TL if you need direction. Your work reflects your proficiency in user interface and your command of the concepts and techniques in semantic HTML, CSS fundamentals, git, and responsive design.

You have three hours to complete this challenge. Plan your time accordingly.

Introduction

In this challenge, you will use a data set of influential artists to build a "50 influential artists" webpage.

Commits

Commit your code regularly and meaningfully. This helps both you (in case you ever need to return to old code for any number of reasons) and your team lead.

Self-Study Questions

Demonstrate your understanding of this week's concepts by answering the following free-form questions.

Edit this document to include your answers after each question. Make sure to leave a blank line above and below your answer so it is clear and easy to read by your project manager

1. How would you describe preprocessing to someone new to CSS?
2. What is your favorite concept in preprocessing? What is the concept that gives you the most trouble?
3. How would you explain the concept of a variable to someone new to programming?
4. What is the purpose of using functions in code?
5. What is a JSON data?

You are expected to be able to answer all these questions. Your responses contribute to your Sprint Challenge grade. Skipping this section will prevent you from passing this challenge.

Instructions

Task 1: Project and Pre-processer Set Up

Follow these steps to set up your project:

Git Set up

• Create a forked copy of this project.
• Add your project manager as collaborator on Github.
• Clone your OWN version of the repository (Not Lambda's by mistake!).
• Create a new branch: git checkout -b <firstName-lastName>.

Preprocessor Set up

• Verify that you have LESS installed correctly by running lessc -v in your terminal, if you don't get a version message back, reach out to your project manager for help.
• Open your terminal and navigate to your preprocessing project by using the cd command
• Once in your project's root folder, run the following command less-watch-compiler less css index.less
• Verify your compiler is working correctly by changing the background-color on the html selector to red in your index.less file.
• Once you see the red screen, you can delete that style and you're ready to start on the next task

Task 2a: Minimum Viable Product - PreProcessing

Import LESS Files

• Navigate to your index.less file. Notice the file is blank. You have been asked to use a certain import order. That order is as follows:

1.variables.less
2.mixins.less
3.reset.less
4.global.less
5.navigation.less
6.footer.less
7.home-page.less

You will know everything is working properly when you see the styles enabled for the provided content.

Home Page - Desktop HTML & LESS

• Take 10 minutes to review the code that has already been provided for you. Take time to see how the home page was built.
• Add a viewport meta tag to the head of your index.html page
• Review the provided home desktop design file. You are to build the missing navigation system and header image. You have been provided all content necessary in the index.html file
• Navigation Styles: Use the navigation.less file for styling.
• Main Content Styles: Use the home-page.less file for styling
• LESS Mixins: Create and use 2 different mixins to aid your styling. Use the mixins.less file for your mixins
• LESS Parametric Mixin: create a parametric mixin that is used to create the contact us button styles.
• Use at least 2 parameters to create your button
• Create a hover state that changes the opacity of images to 80%

Task 2b: Minimum Viable Product - JavaScript

Navigate to index.js and complete the MVP challenges. Note that you need to scroll past data (or collapse data in VScode) to find the challenges.

Task 3: Stretch Problems

After finishing your required elements, you can push your work further. These goals may or may not be things you have learned in this module but they build on the material you just studied. Time allowing, stretch your limits and see if you can deliver on the following optional goals, also listed in index.js, where applicable:

• Use JavaScript to programmatically create HTML elements in the console to display all 50 artists on the page
• Create a function called randomize that takes a data array as an argument and returns a the same array in a randomized order.
• Use advanced array methods (.map, .reduce, .filer) to refactor your MVP code (create an array of all artists born in the 1900s with .filter, for example)
• Add responsive breakpoints to your code by using media queries
• Add CSS animations

Resources

📚Best Practices for Responsive Design

🤝W3 Schools - Responsive Design

👀 Styling with HTML and CSS

Submission format

Follow these steps for completing your project.

• Submit a Pull-Request to merge Branch into master (student's Repo). Please don't merge your own pull request
• Add your team lead as a reviewer on the pull-request
• Your team lead will count the project as complete by merging the branch back into master