I have held back and now I am finally on the web security section of the backend course from The Odin Project. I am super excited for this. Before I move on from this section I am going to take really good notes on “Sessions”, “Cookies”, “Authentication”, and “Authorization”. I have experience with these concepts but I definitely have gaps. I basically want to improve my level of confidence with this so that I would feel comfortable building a user signup/login feature easily regardless of what tech stack I use.
So far there is a lot of extra material to read but I am excited to get going with this.
TLDR;
Okay, so here are the highlights of what I did:
- Backend -> Started reading through some of the concepts mentioned in the web security section. I read through the example code but I stopped to review at the authorization sections. I need to go over that a few more times before I feel comfortable with it.
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.