brittany walker

web developer

i am not throwing away my shot all we see is sky for forever, we let the world pass by for forever stare down the odds and seize the day i miss the mountains what would i do if i had not met you? but most of all, i'm thankful for lovin' who i really am they say we are asleep until we fall in love, we are children of dust and ashes telephone wire, long black line

Playbill

The World Wide Web

Musical Web Dev

  • ~ cd Sites
  • ~/Sites mkdir musicals
  • ~/Sites cd musicals
  • ~/Sites/musicals touch songs.js
  • ~/Sites/musicals

projects

Projects

What the CSS?!

Web Development Course

What the CSS?! is a 30 day course that teaches the fundamentals of CSS via daily challenges and quirky exercises.

  • Co-Founder & Web Developer
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Theater Log

Theater Show Tracker

Theater Log is a personal musical and play tracker, documenting every show I have seen live since 2010.

  • Built with: Vue.js
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Mapping Musicals

Tony Winner Locations

An interactive map of musicals that won or were nominated for Best Musical at the Tony Awards.

  • Built with: JavaScript, MapBox
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Bit Theater

Theater Review Website

BitTheater is your ultimate theater show resource. Track your shows, share reviews and collect badges.

  • Built with: JavaScript, SCSS, Node, MongoDB
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Musical Picks

Musical Recommendation Quiz

An illustrated quiz app that will recommend movie musicals based on your responses to questions about you.

  • Built with: JavaScript, jQuery, The Movie Database API
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CSS Images

Images Created With CSS

A colorful collection of various images and animations created using only CSS and HTML.

  • Built using HTML and CSS, sometimes Pug and SCSS
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WIP

Upcoming Projects

Below is a list of projects that are currently in progress.

  • Accio ES6 - A Wizard themed guide to ES6.
  • EmojiScreen - Guess the movie, tv or musical from emojis (a Git/Github teaching tool).
  • Just Dance - A filterable directory of Youtube dance crews.
  • Broadway in CSS - A series of CSS only animated scenes from my favorite musicals.

Teaching

Thinkful Workshops

Lead DC Instructor

Teaches free front-end web development workshops every Tuesday on various topics including:

  • Intro to HTML/CSS
  • JS Fundamentals
  • Build a Game with JS
  • Git & Github
  • Build a Pet with JS
  • Intro to ES6
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Women Who Code DC

Front-End Lead

Work in a team of five to host and teach two front-end web development meetups per month in the DC area with a focus of supporting women and non-binary people in tech.

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Techlady Hackathon

Workshop Instructor

Taught at Build a Game with JavaScript Workshop during the October 2017 Tech Lady Hackathon (now Tech Rebalanced).

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about me

Brittany Walker is a web developer, instructor and musical theater fan.

Currently she works at a Washington DC digital agency, where she builds websites and data visualizations for non-profits.

She is very involved in the DC tech community As a Front End Lead for Women Who Code DC and an Instructor for a free weekly coding workshop for Thinkful.

Brittany also is the co-founder of What the CSS?!, a fun course that teaches CSS via quirky challenges and regularly mentors for those learning how to code.