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From Cosmetics to Coding

Julia Dufresne on January 27, 2020

Hello World! My name’s Julia, but I like to be called Jules! I am a current student at Juno College in the Web Development Immersive Bootcamp. ...
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JoshuaWoods

OMG lets chat!! I'm also from the cosmetic world. I say take what you know and apply it dont' try to become a dev culture wise I think it's best to let what we know change into something new. You have alot to add to the culture. I find that I am leaning more towards creative parts of coding like game design and such.

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Julia Dufresne

I love that! Definitely love design aspects of development - I am pretty sold on Front-End / UX/UI!

Have you been a developer for long? What has your journey been like?

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I started learning Figma and html/css and Beauter.css. I used sololearn to get learn RUBY did not have a clue hoe to use it. Things cam together when I started learning with Treehouse. Now I'm learning Lua and blender. INK language is good to learn also. here are some of my site.

Joshuawoodsdev.glitch
Theolfactive.com (squarespace Im remaking this with Middleman, learning that now. But I say watch youtube you can learn anything you want.

nodedataedu.glitch.me/

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Dah_Mola

Reading your comment left me surprised because i am wondering how you learnt all this. I am having a hard time between picking frontend and Android developing. So many things to learn at the same time.
Please advise me.

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JoshuaWoods

Hmm I"ll post in order.

SOLOLEARN(ruby), YOUTUBE, GLITCH, FIGMA, GITHUB

ATOM IDE
ZORIN linux,
(courses.edx.org/courses/coursev1:L...) free course
designcode.io/design-system-in-figma
TREEHOUSE
beakerbrowser.com/(p2p)
100r.co/site/home.html
itch.io/
MIDDLEMAN(Giraffacdemny on youtube)learn ERB ruby
zeit.co/
inklestudios.com/ink/ (ink lang then take this to go back and learn with ruby)
I leaning to learning to to make games so LUA!! it like ruby
lua.org/ + love2d.org/wiki/Main_Page

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JoshuaWoods

DONT pick just find something you like and learn it. I do a little everyday well alot it's been about 1 year or so. YOu sort of ahave to unnerd yourself and look at things from the view or background you come from I HATE python. So I picked ruby it fits with how i think.

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Katie Nelson

Hey Jules, good luck in bootcamp. Sounds like you found your calling. I'm so happy for you!

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Julia Dufresne

Thanks so much!
I definitely feel so connected to coding - I just wish I found it sooner!

Are you currently a dev? What has your journey been like!

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Katie Nelson

I'm a student who's been coding on my own for a couple of years, I started on front-end with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Now, I've moved to the back-end with C# ASP.NET Core and SQL where I'm working on a student-run web site here at school.

I'm not sure yet what I'll major in when I go to college. I've still got time to decide.

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Jay Hinds

Hi friend :)

Loved reading your story Jules! Really admire your courage to jump into something completely new. That's a common theme I saw in your story, you're not afraid to take on new challenges and no matter the challenge you're able to be successful at it. I can truly say this new endeavour will be no different :)

Can't wait to read more from you!

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Puhantnf • Edited

Good job! I wish you success in developing this cosmetics page, and I am sure it will be successful. Now more and more women choose to shop online and especially find out about various cosmetic products or procedures or even cosmetic surgeries. I took a look at your work, and I can certainly sound user-friendly because it was easy for me to find all the products I was looking for. I would like to find on-the-site products for ipl skin rejuvenation procedures.

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Arit Developer

Congratulations on your journey so far! I'm eager to see what you accomplish, and to continue learning from your experience. I hope you'll keep blogging 😄

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Julia Dufresne

Hi Arit!

Thanks so much for the comment - I definitely plan on posting throughout my whole journey, I turned to so many blogs to get where I am now, so I hope to help someone else out the same! Stay tuned!