Hello, everybody!
My name is Valters and I am fairly new to coding world. I am trying different things to learn and improve, so I am quite curious to see how this challenge will go.
I must admit, I feel a bit anxious about pressing the "Submit" button for this comment, but well - what's a challenge without some nerves, right? :) So, here it goes - my raw, unedited reflection on the pre-mission questions.
Successful coding experience:
“Word guessing game”:
o I managed to make a draft final version of the game
o I was experimenting with concepts freshly learned
o Learned about loops, EventListeners, etc. of JavaScript
o I was happy that it was kinda working.
o I had fun while working on it – I wanted to see if I can put in practice what I have learned and make something on my own.
o I worked on it for a week or so.
o I liked that I could see how do different concepts work in practice.
Test writing for Visas Iespējas
o I am doing some basic things, which I can understand
o I am building on basic knowledge and tool given to me – learning to find answers on my own in documentation and online.
o I have support system of VI programmers team.
o I like to see the practical result of my work
Website creating for “Turība” course.
o I liked to see, that I can create something simple but more or less nice looking only after few months of learning programming
o I liked that I could do things differently as taught in the course
o It was my first experience of trying to create something from scratch.
o I started to learn to look for answers online
Unsuccessful coding experience:
Java Bootcamp:
o I couldn’t see practical application of the language
o The practice project was difficult and not really interesting for me
o I didn’t know for what kind of help to ask
o I did simple task for basically 1 week
o I didn’t feel like I am doing something useful
o I was in panic; I didn’t want to “pull down” the team
o I didn’t sing up for some task which I could do, e.g JavaScript code for database/table field validation
o The challenges we needed to solve involved more understanding of technologies, than programming language itself
o I spent some of the time just being lazy
o I was not excited by Java
Following tutorials:
o Mainly, I don’t finish them
o I don’t know what to create with the things I learn
o I stop following just before things are taken to the next step, become more difficult.
Long term goals (by the end of the year – in 8 months):
• Being able to earn most of my money by coding
• Being able to work most of the time remotely
• Working on creating websites
• I would like to be able to create a simple website for somebody else on my own
• I would like to work in a supportive team
Short-term goals
• Go to my Wordpress profile and actually create something
• Improve my test-writing skills
• Start learning more advanced concepts of JavaScript
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Hello, everybody!
My name is Valters and I am fairly new to coding world. I am trying different things to learn and improve, so I am quite curious to see how this challenge will go.
I must admit, I feel a bit anxious about pressing the "Submit" button for this comment, but well - what's a challenge without some nerves, right? :) So, here it goes - my raw, unedited reflection on the pre-mission questions.
Successful coding experience:
Unsuccessful coding experience:
Long term goals (by the end of the year – in 8 months):
• Being able to earn most of my money by coding
• Being able to work most of the time remotely
• Working on creating websites
• I would like to be able to create a simple website for somebody else on my own
• I would like to work in a supportive team
Short-term goals
• Go to my Wordpress profile and actually create something
• Improve my test-writing skills
• Start learning more advanced concepts of JavaScript