It has been almost a year since I had first started learning programming. My first (and last) post was in May. So this is an update for me and anyone who stumbles upon this blog and is curious how my dev learning journey went.
During the months of May and June, I did some simple projects (most of them I left either unfinished or unpolished to perfection). Sharpened my HTML and CSS skills a bit, started grasping JavaScript a bit more. Then, over the months of July and August, I took a small break from programming, because I had to switch focus to my Master's (in a totally unrelated field) work. I had to prepare (and pass) some exams, collect and analyze all the lab work results, and start communicating with my mentor about all the stuff that needed to be done (my grand plan was to defend my thesis before the end of 2022 - and I (spoiler alert) did it successfully, on Dec 21st).
Then, in the middle of September, I enrolled into a local coding bootcamp, while still battling with my Master's work. In the bootcamp, we went over a lot of JavaScript, and at the end we also learned some basic uses of Node and React. The bootcamp lasted 3 months, and I learned A LOT. The stuff I knew, I perfected; the stuff I had a hard time with (like DOM manipulation), I learned really well, just simply by basically doing it a lot in various problems and tasks we encountered during the bootcamp. I met some awesome people there and really further sharpened my JS skills. The bootcamp also gave me a sense of confidence, and for the first time, I started believing that I could maybe find a job with the skills I acquired. I really liked the backend tutorial that our tutor gave us - it was really short and basic (we went over the basics of setting up an API, a database and a schema, and connecting all that to our frontend), but the methods I saw there really opened my eyes into some stuff I wondered about for a long time, and inspired me to learn more about it all!
In the meantime, I successfully wrote, submitted and defended my Master's thesis, titled: "Production of bioethanol from photocatalytically processed starch material". So now I have a Master's degree. Yay!
The bootcamp ended in mid-December, and we have until mid-January to finish a final project, and showcase it to our tutor and the other candidates.
As of this writing, I am still in the process of creating my final project - a fullstack web app which will be a simpler, humorous version of twitter, called Kriker (roughly translated to Shrieker in English), where you send kriks (shrieks) instead of tweets. I finished probably 95% of the frontend part, and started working on the backend part today. I'll make another post when I'm finished with it all.
Till next time!
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