DEV Community: Lucas Kelly

Figuring out my path through Python

Lucas Kelly — Wed, 12 May 2021 14:32:13 +0000

When I started my journey into programming last year, I quickly fell in love with the ease and functionality of Python. I paid for a Python mastery course from Mosh Hamedani and took my time going through the tutorials. I hit a roadblock when the course was over and I didn’t know what to do next.

I wanted to have a base knowledge of HTML, CSS and JS, as I wasn’t sure if I wanted to go the front end or back end route to programming. So I began taking a @teamtreehouse front-end dev course and I got quite far into it before my life got busy.

I had just got a new puppy, my wife and I sold our old camper and bought a new one, and we were preparing for our summer full of camping. I set the programming aside for a while.

Recently I was able to do some programming at my day job, see a previous post of mine, and decided I was going to start fresh with Python again.

At this time I am retaking the Python mastery course and things are making so much more sense now, and I am excited again at what I might be able to do with the Python language.

I hope to soon write about my very first Program I created, a Secret Santa name generator. Stay tuned!

Programming at my day job

Lucas Kelly — Tue, 04 May 2021 19:49:03 +0000

When you read the title of this post, you may think “what’s your day job? Isn’t that what you are supposed to do?”

The answer is I’m a trading assistant for a financial planning and investment office. And no, my job is not programming related at all. At least it wasn’t meant to be...

I’ve been at my job for almost 4 years now and have done much more than what I was originally hired to do. But since I began to learn how to program about 6 months ago, I have been able to save my employer probably a few hundred dollars at least by editing code on our server based Client Relationship Manager (CRM) myself. I literally just worked on the program today and saved probably at least $90 in fees that it would have cost to contact the company we usually work with to make changes.

I’m posting about this because it gives me hope that although I am not in a tech related job at the moment, it definitely is where I see myself in a couple years.

Talk to you all soon!

My Very First Post

Lucas Kelly — Tue, 04 May 2021 03:09:05 +0000

Hi everyone! I have been programming now for about 6 months and I recently took some time away to prepare for camping season :). I'm ready to get back to it and have a friend inspiring me to start writing about my journey into tech. I figured, why not get my first post out there so I have a starting point to look back on. So here it is... My first post... My first intro. I now have my starting point.

Talk to you all soon!