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Haven't Given Up Yet!

JahWayne — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 05:22:50 +0000

Weekly check in again, I should have done this yesterday but I was in a foul mood. So here we are on another update of my Laravel e-commerce project. Lets start of with the positives, I think I'm doing good, I'm currently working on the interface for the user to add a new product to the store. I am having a bit of trouble with this however and I think it's because I'm trying to bite off more than I can chew. Oh right, since I'm making this post, lets see if I can get some help here. I'm using a template that looks like this:

Now I can very easily just create one singular form to post the data to my route, but I'd prefer to use this layout which is using multiple cards to add/edit product details. How would I be able to Post all the data with just one button? Could I just wrap everything in a form tag and then use the one button to send all the data at once?

If you guys have any suggestions or guidance I'd be glad to hear it.

Slow and steady wins the race!

JahWayne — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 02:51:29 +0000

Well, It's been a week since I introduced myself and goals to this community and now it's time for an update! Its hard for me to finish things so giving you guys weekly updates is how I plan to hold myself accountable. So quick recap for anyone who's new to my story, I'm an aspiring full stack dev and I'm currently working on putting together a portfolio to showcase my skills. This is the first project of said portfolio and what I'm working on is creating an ecommerce website using Laravel.

I made a post about starting this last week Sunday and was filled with hype and excitement. I was just bursting to go! I had all these exciting ideas and features I wanted to implement. I literally didn't know where to start. So I calmed down, took a deep breath and decided to start by drafting up a database schema to assess my tables/relationships and that's where it hit me. All the courses that I had taken hadn't really prepared me for real world scenarios like these. I know how to code(somewhat), I know how to create my controllers and routes and migrations etc..., but I didn't know what to do..., I didn't know what to start with or where to begin..., and that's when I really started freaking out!

I also realized that during the online courses I've been taking, I had been lazy with how I search for information. When posed with a problem, I'd find myself searching for solutions rather than explanations and that bad habit carried over into the first few days of me trying to attack the task at hand. I was searching for existing examples of what I wanted to achieve and would get frustrated when I couldn't find exactly what I wanted. One thing I did notice though is whenever I tried getting an answer to a problem I had, one of the common search results were from
Stack Developers on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCExO2i-tLU1NyVZD6zOJQlw) and then I'd skip through the suggested video trying to find what I wanted and then get frustrated because he's building on something that he made like 20 videos ago.

I finally gave in and started watching the complete e-com series uploaded by the Stack developers, (its over 40+ videos mind you) but I must say it has been very useful in helping me with my current project and it was with the help of these videos that I've so far been able to create an admin area for the admin user to update their information and create products for the store.

It's been slow progress unfortunately, working during the days and then trying to squeeze in some coding along with trying to get in exercise is difficult. Sacrifices have to be made sometimes and what's getting most affected is my sleep and exercise. I try to write code for a couple hours each day and I must say that given my initial Panic, I'm proud of myself. I'm pretty much coding everyday too so today I decided to start the 100 days of code challenge to strengthen my JavaScript skills by going through the challenges/tutorials on FreeCodeCamp.org.

That's all until next time!

Well... This is It.

JahWayne — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 17:26:35 +0000

Yeah... This is "It"

My name is Dwayne, Dwayne Robinson and this is terrifying for me. Before I get to "this", let's do a quick introduction. You already know my name, and I'm a young lad from Kingston, Jamaica(25, is still considered young right?) Back in high school I had a strong passion for coding, back then I was mainly doing c programming and was fascinated with it. After high school, a university tuition was too much for my people to handle so I had to get a job and for many years turned my back on programming. It was still more or less a hobby so during that time I was messing around with a little bootstrap and JavaScript here and there. Time skip, here I am now. Stuck in a stagnant Tech Support 9 - 5. I used the opportunity to work from home during this Corona pandemic to take a few online courses from Coursera and Udemy to become the "Ultimate Full Stack Developer" and after 2 months of learning, here comes the "it"...

I said it was terrifying... Well that refers to this part, I've never had a strong online presence and shun social media so just introducing myself and opening up to you guys really scare me. I've been doing my research, and I understand the importance of building up a network and getting help from people who are at a higher level, so this is my attempt at doing so. I got inspired to do this after Google recommended an article on this website about another young guy who was a cook in Ghana and he made the switch to Web Development in April(his Name is Kofi, you can view his post here) and now he's an intern! I thought that was awesome.

Getting back to the real "it"..., It will be my first serious project that I take on to build up my portfolio, and I will see it through to the very end no matter what obstacles or challenges I face. My girlfriend also has a hobby, she likes to craft, and makes really cool stuff (Check out WunderKrafts on Instagram) and my very serious project will be using Laravel to make an e-commerce website for her.

I'm confident enough that I can pull it off...(nervous laughter) and would like to share my journey and progress with all of you on here as I do so. I guess I'll try to provide weekly updates and would very much welcome any feedback, opinion, guidance, thoughts and ideas that anyone has to offer.

For those who managed to read through all of my ramblings, thank you for taking the time to hear me out, I really do appreciate it, and thanks for becoming a part of my journey.