Where I got started... The Traffic Light challenge

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The light is go!

There are many traffic lights in the world but this one is mine. This coded traffic light with HTML , CSS and JS helped kickstart my career that has been spanning for over 5 years doing web development.

The challenge was hard at the time but now seems trivial. The task was to create a traffic light that uses JavaScript to be interactive with buttons for Stop, Slow and Go. This was a screening exercise for my bootcamp.

In this code sample, hosted on Codepen, you can see the HTML, CSS and JavaScript needed to create a functional stop light:

See the Pen Traffic Light JS by Morgan Murrah (@airbridge) on CodePen.

See the comment:

finished at 1:57pm Thursday- Observed easier to solve problems working from the ‘base’ of the HTML through to CSS to JS across the screen. Took a while to spot but once spotted was easy.

It is not a special comment, but it is a marker in time that I look back on and remember with some awe.

As detailed in my other posts and in my About page I have been spending a lot of time working on the web ever since. But the traffic light is part of where I got my start.