What I Did

1. I deployed “These Numbers Matter” to production on Heroku.
2. I worked with Michael to delineate the common patterns used throughout our current wire-frame plan.
3. I researched into REACT and the Colonel Kurtz documentation.

What I Learned

1. Colonel Kurtz is fundamentally based on blocks and block types.
2. TH DOM is an application programming interface for valid HTML and well-formatted XML documents that defines the logical structure of documents and the way a document is accessed and manipulated.
3. Scripting languages are programming languages that do not require an explicit compilation step.
4. Imperative code makes explicit how a process should be executed while declarative code more so states what functionality is desired.
5. The following are some benefits of React apps:
   • Lean on declarative code
   • Unidirectional dataflow
   • Compositional orientation
   • Explicit mutations
   • Heavy reliance on pure JavaScript
6. A content delivery network is a system of distributed servers that deliver web pages and other Web content to a user based on geographic locations of the user, the origin of the web page and a content delivery server.
7. The flow of activity in a React app is generally as follows:
   • Signal to notify app that some data has changed
   • Re-render virtual DOM
   • Get diff between previous virtual DOM and re-rendered virtual DOM
   • Only update the real DOM with necessary changes.

What I Still Don’t Understand

I’m still unsure on what should be modeled into Colonel Kurtz components, now that Michael and I have successfully identified the basic layout components we’d like to reuse on our homepage.

What I’d Like to Learn

I’m currently going through a course to build a React app and the instructor has mentioned functional programming several times. A friend of mine brought this up to me as well, so I’ll likely take a look into this, because I’ve only ever worked with traditional object oriented languages…