Hi, my name is Adam Elitzur and welcome to my blog! My goal with this blog is to document my learning and in turn, help others with what I learn and what challenges I run into. I believe that learning from others is a great way to avoid mistakes and succeed.
About Me
I'm going into 11th grade, and I love everything to do with computers! My first interaction with programming (and my Hello World program) was at a summer camp in 2018. I started with Python, but didn't get really advanced until two years later, in March of 2020. I had a lot of free time, so I got Colt Steele's Modern Python 3 Bootcamp. It was an amazing course, and after completing it I felt like I knew how to program. Little did I know, I haven't had my first encounter with data structures and algorithms yet. Anyways, after that, I learned some automation with BeautifulSoup and made my first real project, a social media scraper that saved my Dad many hours of repetitive work. The scraper took a spreadsheet of names, searched for each person, and pasted their bios into the spreadsheet.
I then took Harvard's Introduction to Computer Science(CS50), which taught me more about data structures and algorithms. Boy was that a challenging course, but David Malan, professor of computer science for CS50, is an amazing teacher. He really got me thinking like a programmer.
David Malan teaching CS50
In January of 2021, I got into web development and started Colt Steele's Web Developer Bootcamp. It's a great course, but I made the mistake of rushing through it (like watching four and a half hours of lectures in one day). But because I rushed it, I didn't remember much of the course.
I did some research on how to solidify my knowledge and decided to start making projects to review the content that I rushed through. I started working on these projects, mainly Frontend Mentor challenges. I slowly started improving CSS, and now, I feel much more comfortable with CSS. I just finished my first collaboration on a project, which taught me a lot about using Git for collaboration. My next step is to review DOM manipulation, which I'm using Scrimba's Learn JavaScript for free course for.
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