I continued going through the rest of the Local Library tutorial. I started on part 6 where I will be covering HTML form submissions using Pug and Express. It has been a busy day back from the long weekend but I am happy I did not lose focus.
I do not really have much else to report. It is somewhat weird. I am going through the material but nothing is popping out to be be note-worthy. This is an odd experience for me. I usually have something to say LOL. Oh well tomorrow will be better I hope.
TLDR;
Okay, so here are the highlights of what I did:
- IT Support Course -> Continued with the IT Support course on Coursera. I have a small bit left to cover and then it’s done. The sections on Hardware, Operating Systems, Networking, and Software were very interesting. I have not learned a great deal from the course but I took away some solid gems and enjoyed the review. AND of course I am always adding new notes and revising my old ones with new information.
- Practice -> Continued working through the practice ‘Local Library’ project in the MDN ExpressJS guide. Started on part 6 of the tutorial. This is the last part and deals with handling form submission data using Pug and Express. The article has a nice review section on HTML forms as well which is nice.
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.