Continuing with the local library express tutorial. Most of the time it’s copy and paste and understand the code. But today was about me adding features myself. Let me tell you, I struggled a bit because when you copy and paste you aren’t really coding as much as when you write the code yourself – At least for me!
Coding involves the design and structuring of the code. Copy and pasting only works when it’s your own code you are copying. To be fair I do copy and paste from Stack Overflow solutions sometimes but it usually leads to a bigger problem down the line. Especially if I did not understand what my code was doing.
Anyways. I have a bit more left in this tutorial so I need to lock in. Still using Vim. Still jumping around files. Still splitting windows so that I can view the top of a file while simultaneously working on some code at the tail end of the file. Still loving the experience but I still need to improve with regular Git commits and focusing in on tasks. Lots of work to do but I am definitely seeing improvements.
TLDR;
Okay, so here are the highlights of what I did:
- Practice -> Continued working through the practice ‘Local Library’ project in the MDN ExpressJS guide. Continued my work on part 6 of the tutorial. I worked on adding the delete handlers for Books, genres, authors, and book instances. I now need to add the update handlers all four as well. This challenge was a great way for me to prove my knowledge of the material. I tripped up a bit but I am improving.
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.