I have a year of 'professional' experience with another year doing development on my own. When I first started working I didn't understand how other people had the energy and bandwidth to work on side projects. After close to a year of full time work, I started feeling an itch and began learning React, and that is how my latest personal project started.
It started out pretty small, as it was just supposed to be for practice but I kept adding more things, and now it's a full stack project of medium size. It's not fully finished yet, but I'm planning to release a first version very soon, with more things in mind. We'll see if it's successful or not lol.
My only other personal project was for an application contest, and I stopped working on it soon after the contest, so this one is the first one without an imposed deadline. This time around, I went through with a different process. I usually start with programming the logic and leave the frontend to the end, with no thought for design. But this time I took my time with designing all the screens, then working on the frontend with mock data then lastly the backend. While I was in the design phase, I thought about what features I wanted to have and investigated how I'd implement them. I wrote everything down in a list then depending on my availability and time I worked on them.
I have a year of 'professional' experience with another year doing development on my own. When I first started working I didn't understand how other people had the energy and bandwidth to work on side projects. After close to a year of full time work, I started feeling an itch and began learning React, and that is how my latest personal project started.
It started out pretty small, as it was just supposed to be for practice but I kept adding more things, and now it's a full stack project of medium size. It's not fully finished yet, but I'm planning to release a first version very soon, with more things in mind. We'll see if it's successful or not lol.
My only other personal project was for an application contest, and I stopped working on it soon after the contest, so this one is the first one without an imposed deadline. This time around, I went through with a different process. I usually start with programming the logic and leave the frontend to the end, with no thought for design. But this time I took my time with designing all the screens, then working on the frontend with mock data then lastly the backend. While I was in the design phase, I thought about what features I wanted to have and investigated how I'd implement them. I wrote everything down in a list then depending on my availability and time I worked on them.
I hope this was helpful :)
That really was helpful! Thanks a lot!