Week 1 of my Web Development journey

Jean Pierre Chreim — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 15:09:43 +0000

As I mentioned before, I will be willing to share my weekly experience. Recently, I’ve found myself on codewell.cc, which is a site where you can practice your front end web development skills using basically HTML, CSS and JavaScript. I picked up a challenged, entitled “Developer Portfolio”, which you can find it here, in case you wish to do some practices. The reason I did this challenge was to refresh my memory and my skills when it comes to CSS. I already had an online boot camp about these two technologies, where I also published 4 different small projects, but that was a very long time ago. During the portfolio challenge, I’ve faced quit some issues when it came to responsive design, JavaScript animations and publishing my code on GitHub and take it online to GitHub live pages. All is sorted out now and this challenge really helped me to understand more how CSS and HTML works with each others, and how a GitHub repository should be initiated.
As for the learning side, I’m still taking freeCodeCamp’s JavaScript curriculum, and to be specific, some basic Algorithm. As soon as I finish it, I’ll be starting with React, so that I can be able to implement it to my front end projects.
That’s all for the previous week, in case you reached to this part, I would really like to know how your week was and what were you working on.

Welcoming myself

Jean Pierre Chreim — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 22:22:55 +0000

Welcoming myself to the community.

Hello everyone, hope you enjoyed your holidays and had some rest to start this year, motivated and full of excitement.

Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Jean Pierre, and I am a computer science student working as a mid-level IT Support. I've started this channel alongside a professional Instagram page, check it out here, after seeing many developers posting their progress and their setup.

I’ll be sharing my progress over here, alongside some useful tips, just to make sure that I’ll be consistent with my learning phase and progress, you can say that’s my 2022 resolution, to become a better developer and to open up to this lovely dev community.

In case you wish to know what are my skills and what I’ve already learned, I started to learn Java, since they highly recommended at the university to cover the essential of object-oriented languages, and you can say now that I became intermediate in it.

After learning the basic of Java, they started with HTML, CSS and some basic JavaScript, which we used it as a front-end language. Following this, we’ve learned PHP, which I totally forgot, and they made us to develop a fully functional website connected to a database and running on a local host.

During this time, I wasn’t motivated enough, but for an unknown reason, I wouldn’t mind coding all night to finish a project or an assignment, until everything changed a few months ago where I started from 0. I followed freeCodeCamp’s curriculum and finished all the challenges that are related to responsive web design and got an online certificate. After that, I started with JavaScript and learned the basic of ES6, regex and currently learning algorithm, a subject that I already covered during my first years in the university, but I had to pass to it again to refresh my mind, since it’s very important.

So that’s all, now you know everything, I’ll start to post each two weeks, hoping I’ll be able to do the same each week, showing you my progress and sharing some useful tips that you might use during your career.

Enough about me, I would like to know more about you in the comment section, and if you have a professional account you would like me to follow-on Instagram, don’t be shy to share it !

DEV Community: Jean Pierre Chreim

Week 1 of my Web Development journey

Welcoming myself