I continued going through the rest of the Local Library tutorial. It introduced me to a package called express-validator so now I am reading up on that a bit before moving forward. This package abstracts out some of the checks and validations that I have to perform by providing functions that are fairly straightforward and can be daisy-chained together. I still need to read up a bit more but it does not seem like it will difficult to wrap my head around using it.

TLDR;

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

• IT Support Course -> Finished with the IT Support course on Coursera. While not really. I finished one section of the 5 part course. I don’t plan on moving forward with the rest. The course was interesting but it’s not my priority and honestly, I don’t think the 39 USD/month is worth it. I am not that interested in certificates. I am more interesting in the knowledge and improving my skills. It was a cool experience though. I hope my brother finishes going through and learns a ton. They presented the information in a way that was easily digestible.
• Practice -> Continued working through the practice ‘Local Library’ project in the MDN ExpressJS guide. Continued on part 6 of the tutorial. The section splits into a bunch of sub sections just like part 5. This may take a while. Started off by reading up on the express-validator package’s docs.

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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.