I am back to working through the Node.js and express section of the backend development curriculum offered by The Odin Project. I am just happy for not doing anymore infrastructure work. It is fun to know what is going on but it takes so much more knowledge of operating systems and software packages.

I am ready to keep going. I am so close to the web security section. I have a bit more comfort with the concept of middleware so hopefully I will be able to level up this time.

TLDR;

Okay, so here are the highlights of what I did:

• Practice -> Finished the Mini Message Board App project from The Odin Project curriculum. It was very straight-forward although I had to review some of the pug syntax. Using Vim with pug seems like it might be a problem since pug is spacing sensitive. I guess python with Vim would be somewhat of an issue as well. I need to look into how to set the auto-indentation to be with spaces and not tabs. Here is the project repo though.

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Goal For Round 8 of the #100DaysofCode Challenge

This is my eighth round of the “#100daysofcode” challenge. I will be continuing my work from round five, six, and seven into round eight. I was working through the book “Cracking the Coding Interview” by Gayle Laakmann McDowell. My goal was to become more familiar with algorithms and data structures. This goal was derived from my goal to better understand operating systems and key programs that I use in the terminal regularly e.g. Git. This goal was in turn derived from my desire to better understand the fundamental tools used for coding outside of popular GUIs. This in turn was derived from my desire to be a better back-end developer.

I am currently putting a pause on the algorithm work to build some backend/full stack projects. I primarily want to improve my skills with the back-end from an implementation perspective. I have improved tremendously in terminal and CLI skills but I lost focus due to how abstract the algorithm concepts got. I wanted to work on things that were more tangible until I can get to a position where I could directly benefit from improving my algorithm skills and theoretical knowledge. So that’s the focus right now. Build my backend skills and prove my full stack capabilities by building some dope projects.

Again, I still have no idea if my path is correct but I am walking down this road anyways. Worst case scenario I learn a whole bunch of stuff that will help me out on my own personal projects. Best case scenario I actually become one of those unicorn developers that go on to start a billion dollar company… You never know LOL.