Had some work related tasks that needed me to write some shell scripts to solve the problem. I was rusty so I spent a huge amount of time yesterday going through some shell scripting tutorials. The sad thing is that I already had notes but because they were pretty unorganized I just dismissed them. The notes were from almost a year ago but I thought they would not be helpful.
After going through half of a 17 part tutorial I realized that my notes actually were not that bad and just started to reorganize them so that they would be easier to come back to. It sucks to have been so inefficient but it’s all about taking those L's now so that in the future you can get some W's.
In hindsight. Had I reviewed my own notes instead of going through an entirely new tutorial I probably would have saved myself a few hours of extra work. But oh well. That’s life.
TLDR;
Okay, so here are the highlights of what I did:
- Shell Scripting -> Went through a tutorial on the different parts of shell scripting. The tutorial was not the best. It had a unique writing perspective and a good amount of code snippets and examples but the writing was unclear at times. I appreciate the content and I think it is pretty good but there was some definite room for improvement. It was difficult to get through at times and not because the material was difficult. Anyways, that ate up a lot of my die.
- Practice -> Continued working on the Inventory Management Application project from The Odin Project. Read through the express docs and added to my notes. I think I am going to keep moving for now. I am starting to get side tracked!
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.