Never tell yourself that you know something and stop improving your skills on that thing. You may wonder ‘why am I saying this?’. the answer is simple. Technology changes day by day. Ask a friend you trust most in technology: how many computer programming languages he/she can code in, and how long did they take to learn them? The answer might be many programming languages, but the time can sure be ‘I started with one and kept learning’ because that is how technology is. Depending on what you are going to do, you learn new and interesting tools to help you achieve the end of your journey. In today’s blog, I would like to talk about interesting technology I encountered in preparation for Andela boot camp cycle 13.
The journey started a couple of months ago when I started thinking that Andela can help me in achieving one of my career goals of becoming a software developer. I can’t lie that I knew which tools to start learning before joining. I only knew html, css, and JavaScript. Yet they are not enough to even secure an interview. In the course of application, they shared home study curriculum and requested if we can start learning before doing the first test challenge. From that time, I knew they require other tools than what I mentioned early (html, css and JavaScript if you do not remember). To cut story short, after passing the interview, they sent invitation to the boot camp and sent tools to download. From that moment, I encountered an interesting tool which is node js.
Node js is a platform built on google chrome’s JavaScript run time for easily building fast and scalable network applications. Node is an open source cross-platform runtime environment for developing server-side and networking applications. It can run on mac so, windows so and Linux. [1]
That is the beauty of my interesting tool. Before working on the required project, I never understood how this node js works and I was not even sure if I will be able to learn and use it. This tool got my attention especially when I am learning new features of it. The more I explore node js the more I see what it is capable of doing and how I can use it. Node js with help of some libraries and dependencies and helps me to create API for a certain feature.
Even though I am still a beginner in using and learning node js, I am sure that I have gained enough skills to know where I can start from if I want to advance in node js. I hope that I will keep learn more of what it can do and most necessarily do as many practices as possible in order to be good at it or even expert who know?!
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