Making things look a bit better! Journal #2

Filipe Marques — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 23:07:05 +0000

This week I worked a lot on my JavaScript skills, but still have a long way to go! I added some more styling to my Portfolio webpage with a bit of the CSS I learned and started adding some of the JavaScript, but hit a wall when trying to make multiple Modal windows. I was hoping to achieve the desired outcome with as little code as possible, but it's looking a bit more complicated than I thought it would be. I would sit and here and solve it, but today I studied a lot and I'm a bit tired (hahaha), so I'll leave that for tomorrow and post the result on next week's Journal.

I've learned a lot with the JS course on Udemy, by Jonas Schmedtmann, definitely an amazing teacher. I've been doing a lot of research as well, trying to get things solved without a teacher or browsing through Stack Overflow looking for other people's issues and trying to reproduce and solve them. CodeWars is an amazing website for developing problem solving skills too!

It is indeed a really challenging journey, but I'm excited! Sometimes it feels like there is too much to learn and I feel overwhelmed, but then I take a couple steps back and just try to focus on what I'm struggling right now to reinforce it, before moving forward with learning.

This is it for tonight! See you guys next week! Much love!

Link to my portfolio: https://filipeqm94.github.io/portifolio/

I should soon add the couple games I made with JS in there.

My Coding journey! - Journal #1

Filipe Marques — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 05:42:31 +0000

Hello, everyone! My name is Filipe Marques and I'm 26 years old. I decided to start this journey catalog to mark my improvements as a Web Developer. I first discovered coding in High School when I joined a Game Dev Program, back when I lived in Brazil, and fell in love with the career ever since. I moved to the United Stats in 2014, and decided to enroll in college and get my programming career started. Unfortunately life got in the way and I had to drop out and dedicate myself to working full-time (and some more) to help and support my family.

Six years here in the United States and now I finally can get back to my dream career and improve my coding skills. I enrolled in online classes and also got myself into a few coding websites, such as CodeCademy and Udemy. So far I've been able to learn everything with ease and I'm halfway through most of my courses. Some say it would be best to stick to just one and learn from it until the end, but I find helpful that what some platforms don't cover completely others do.

Today is a new day this new chapter of my life and I feel great about it. I created the "basic shell" of what will be my portfolio webpage, please check it out and send feedback as it evolves! I'll try to keep posting every week with updates of my learning experiences and on my portfolio. Make sure to follow! Thank you for reading!

Here is the link to my portfolio: https://filipeqm94.github.io/portifolio/

Projects and improvements coming soon!

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Making things look a bit better! Journal #2

My Coding journey! - Journal #1