Hi! I’m Miriam!
I am currently enrolled in a coding boot camp, work part time as an office manager in an educational institution, and am a mom of two kids (a three year old girl and a one year old boy – they are adorable!) As I work in the morning while my kids are in preschool and day care, coding only happens at night, after the kids are sleeping. Once the kids drift off into slumber, I shift gears from Mommy to ….Coder!
Coding kind of feels like my superpower. It is challenging, stimulating, at times it can be maddening, and when it finally clicks, it is very satisfying. I alternate between being intimidated of, and enjoying, the mental challenge.
The time that I spend learning and practicing code is me-time. After a busy day of feeding, dressing, diapering, working in the office, some more cooking, feeding, and playing (which I love doing 😊) I crave the silence and peacefulness of sitting in front of my computer and getting lost in a new Javascript skill.
Before I started boot camp, I didn’t even know what a computer programmer did. I kind of imagined a coder as a stereotypical nerd typing in a magical series of zeros and ones. I certainly never considered myself doing that! However, after doing a career consultation, I found that the logical problem solving of programming was a great match for my abilities. I was also encouraged by a friend who had done a software engineering bootcamp, had gotten a great job as a frontend developer, and was loving it!
I remember one of the first skills I learned was to write a HTML tag. Seeing the words that I had typed “Hello, World!” appear on the screen felt tremendous. It may not have been the first steps on the moon, but it sure was exciting! For a few days after, every website I encountered I felt a kinship to. After all, someone else had also written an HTML tag for that website!
I am currently in Phase 1 of my program, which focuses on HTML, CSS, and Javascript. I learned about DOM manipulation, event listeners, and fetch requests which I am putting altogether now in my Phase-1 project.
I will be back soon with another post detailing my challenges in putting together a five star rating system for my project.
Thanks for reading!
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