I am still on my Backend Development study track. I was working through the API development section from The Odin Project’s Node.js course.
Decided to try watching some videos to better understand how CORS works. So far I had really only read articles seriously. Since that was not really clicking, I thought hearing someone explain things might help connect some missing dots.
The challenge with self study is learning resource collection. To say that not all online articles are equal in quality is an understatement. I have had to really scrutinize resources a lot over the years. Sometimes I develop unconscious biases towards one media or another. With backend development I have skewed towards reading articles whereas with frontend development I have heavily favored videos. I decided to revisit that bias with my CORS research and was pleasantly surprised when I found a phenomenal video from Hussein Nasser on CORS. In the video he broke down CORS with examples. The video was well paced and progressed logically. It really helped to clear things up for me on the topic.
Now I just need to watch it about 10 more times to help solidify my understanding of “Preflight Requests”. I still have a long way to go LOL.
TLDR;
Okay, so here are the highlights of what I did:
- Backend -> Continued going through the material on API development with
Node.jsfrom The Odin Project’s backend development course. Watched some videos onCORSand starting looking into what preflight HTTP requests are and what they look like when implemented.
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.