🟢 2025-04-01 — Initial Launch
- Built homepage layout, hero, CTA, and branding.
- Launched Module 1: Cyber Security Fundamentals (quiz + blog integration).
- Animated CTA button with ring/ping effect.
🟢 2025-04-14 — Major Content Expansion
- Added Module 2: Cyber Security Fundamentals - Part 2.
- Added Module 3: Introduction to Cryptography.
- Added Module 4: Introduction to Networking.
- Added Module 5: Subnetting Fundamentals.
- Added Module 6: IPv4 Address Fundamentals.
- Enhanced quiz engine with perfect score detection.
🟣 2025-04-21 — Discrete Mathematics Launch
- New category: Discrete Mathematics.
- Added Module 7: Introduction to Sets.
- Added Module 8: Set Operations & Tuples.
- Added Module 9: Modular Arithmetic.
🧠 2025-05-01 — Quiz System Upgrades
- Path-based dynamic scoring via JS.
- Retry & reset functions added.
- Confetti celebration for perfect scores.
🎨 2025-05-04 — UI/UX & Filter Redesign
- Color-coded and animated filter buttons.
- Improved card layout for featured, networking, and cybersecurity modules.
- Added distinct glowing badge for new content.
🌟 2025-05-04 — Featured Additions
- Introduced "Featured" category filter button.
- Added "Celestial Ant" and "Bonus Lab" to Featured Gems.
- Custom gradients and badge styles for premium cards.
🟢 2025-05-06 — Load More Modules Feature Added
- Added "Load More Modules" button functionality to reveal additional hidden modules dynamically.
- Improved CSS grid layout to ensure consistent and aligned module cards.
- Enhanced responsive behavior for better module card alignment across devices.
- Fixed a bug causing modules to stack vertically when loaded.
🟢 2025-05-07 — Module Cards UI Improvements
- Updated module cards to use Flexbox for consistent button alignment.
- Improved spacing and uniformity of content within module cards.
- Added clearer visual indicators (badges) for new and coming-soon content.
🔧 2025-05-07 — JavaScript Enhancements
- Optimized event listeners for module filter and search features.
- Improved DOMContentLoaded handling to ensure scripts execute after DOM elements are fully loaded.
- Ensured hidden modules properly appear when "Load More" button is clicked.
🧠 2025-05-09 — Celestial Ant Digital Assistant
- Introduced Celestial Ant as a bottom-right digital assistant with characterful presence.
- Added blinking animation and ambient quote rotation for dynamic engagement.
- Implemented close button with session memory and "Call Celestial Ant" footer link.
- Prepared groundwork for interactive guidance via Ask-Ant modal and contextual feedback.
🧠 2025-05-09 — Celestial Ant Learns to React
- Integrated quiz result awareness into Celestial Ant’s behavior.
- Assistant now reacts to perfect scores, low scores, and in-between attempts.
- Ensured reactions only trigger after full quiz completion to avoid false prompts.
- Ant quote system remains session-aware and gracefully animated.
✨ 2025-05-09 — Celestial Ant Homepage Expanded
- Introduced a dedicated landing page for Celestial Ant: your digital professor.
- Enhanced intro with themed visuals and a new ambient message: “The stars reveal secrets…”
- Integrated Konami code Easter egg visual hint and animation trigger.
- Refined Celestial Ant's tone and presence to align with nature × computer science ethos.
🎥 2025-05-09 — Celestial Ant Speaks & Animates
- Embedded introductory animation (GIF) for Celestial Ant, placed beneath header image on homepage.
- Scaled animation for responsiveness and visual balance.
- Mute/unmute button now conditionally appears only when the Easter egg is activated.
- Konami code Easter egg now triggers a soundtrack, ambient swarm animation, and theme shift.
- Preloaded audio and ensured compliance with browser autoplay restrictions via user interaction.
✅ 2025-05-10 — Difficulty Levels, Tooltips & UX Refinements
- Implemented a clear difficulty legend with badges for Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, and Expert levels.
- Added animated gradient effect to the Expert badge for visual emphasis (celestial-themed shimmer).
- Integrated hover-based tooltips for each difficulty level to offer quick context and guide learner expectations.
- Resolved layout issues caused by improperly closed HTML blocks, ensuring proper module grid alignment.
- Cleaned up badge styles by separating `.badge` (for cards) and `.legend-badge` (for legend area) to avoid conflict.
- Removed outdated “New” labels and reassigned difficulty levels based on module complexity and applied IT insight.
- Polished spacing, alignment, and Flexbox responsiveness to improve visual rhythm and consistency on all devices.
- Expanded the FAQ with clearer guidance on module structure and the role of Celestial Ant as a learning companion.
🧠 2025-05-10 — Celestial Ant Expert Challenge Released
- Launched the full Celestial Ant Expert Challenge — a five-part logic and systems puzzle experience.
- Added puzzle types: trail alignment, dialogue choice, binary builder, XOR signal detection, and tile pattern protocol.
- Introduced narrative-based landing content: learn by decoding the Ant’s logic-driven identity.
- Enhanced module card with 🧠 Expert badge styling (white text, shimmering effect, aligned with difficulty legend).
- Updated difficulty legend title and structure to clarify purpose (“🧭 Difficulty Legend”).
- Refined Celestial Ant homepage tone: challenges framed as initiation into system-level awareness.
- Added completion hint for future unlockables — secret "swarm alignment" for those who complete all challenges.
✅ 2025-05-10 — Automated Progress & UI Integration
- Module progress is now automatically tracked and saved based on quiz performance (perfect score triggers 100%).
- Celestial Ant delivers module completion feedback with a blinking animation and custom quote.
- Removed manual "Mark as Completed" and "Reset Progress" buttons for a cleaner, smarter experience.
- Updated all module cards to include visually enhanced, animated progress bars using pure CSS.
- Progress bars dynamically update from localStorage and animate smoothly on load.
- Refined progress display logic for maintainability and future expansion.
🏁 2025-05-10 — Celestial Ant Completion Flow Finalized
- Starter Pack image now correctly appears after all five logic challenges are completed.
- Implemented logic to automatically check completion state across all challenges using `localStorage`.
- Celestial Ant now delivers a personalized congratulatory message upon completion.
- Refined modal behavior to reflect completion with optional scroll-to-starter-pack UX enhancement.
- Visual bugs preventing reward image display have been resolved and tested successfully.
- Final expert path now feels fully interactive, rewarding, and narratively cohesive.
📱 2025-05-11 — Navigation Overhaul (Mobile + Desktop)
- Implemented a responsive top navigation bar with dropdown support for "Modules" on desktop and mobile.
- Resolved a bug where the mobile hamburger menu was auto-closing due to duplicated toggle logic.
- Ensured mobile submenu toggle (Modules list) opens reliably with a single tap.
- Refined animation behavior for mobile nav transitions using
scale-y-0andhiddenclasses. - Improved accessibility and UX by preventing menu flicker and ensuring clear touch targets on smaller devices.
🌞 2025-05-11 — Celestial Ant: Summer Edition Teaser Added
- Created teaser module card for Celestial Ant: Summer Edition.
- Added custom gradients, badges, and a coming-soon button to build anticipation.
- Scheduled launch window: 21 June – 22 Sept 2025.
- Updated visuals with
ant-summer.pngand limited-edition styling. - Prepared supporting ZIP asset structure and licensing tiers for future launch.
📅 Upcoming Networking Modules — Planned for Release
- IPv4 Network Address Fundamentals — deep dive into address types, structure, and usage.
- IP Configuration on a Host — static and dynamic IP setups, DHCP insights.
- Exploring Firewalls — software vs. hardware, packet filtering, and rule-building.
- Exploring Switches — MAC address tables, frame forwarding, switching logic.
- Routers — routing tables, NAT, and how packets reach destinations across networks.
These modules are in active development and will roll out in Summer 2025.
💼 Upcoming Category — IT Support Modules
- New Category: IT Support — focused on hands-on, real-world troubleshooting for beginners and aspiring help desk technicians.
- Introduction to Technical Support — overview of responsibilities and workflows.
- Adding Users to Active Directory — basic account setup tutorial.
- Exploring Active Directory (Windows Server 2019) — guided exploration of AD structure.
- Internet Is Not Working — logical flow for resolving connectivity issues.
- Mouse and Keyboard Not Working — troubleshooting USB, wireless, and hardware issues.
- Outlook Not Receiving Emails — walk-through of inbox and sync issues.
- Audio Is Not Working — fixing sound devices, output routing, and driver conflicts.
- Website Not Working — DNS issues, caching, browser testing.
🌐 Upcoming Category — Cisco Network Engineering
- New Category: Cisco — focused on enterprise-grade network infrastructure, device recovery, secure access, and WAN design.
- Penetration Testing Methodologies and Standards — aligning ethical testing with Cisco Secure track concepts.
- Cisco Three-Layer Hierarchical Model — design and implementation principles for scalable networks.
- Three-Layer Model: WAN Extension — extending enterprise design into distributed WANs.
- Recovering Catalyst 2960 Switch via XMODEM — IOS recovery, ROMMON mode, and low-level I/O practices.
- Cisco Password Recovery Techniques — bypassing and recovering access securely across IOS devices.
- Configuring Devices on Cisco ISE — applying identity-based policies in modern access control models.
- iBGP Configuration on Cisco Router — internal routing architecture using BGP best practices.
- Downgrading Cisco SD-WAN to Classic IOS-XE — for lab environments and compatibility management.
Cisco modules will align with certification objectives and incorporate CLI walkthroughs, packet tracer labs, and case-driven learning scenarios.