DEV Community: Cesar Melchor

What front-end have you used when using C# as your back-end?

Cesar Melchor — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 03:53:17 +0000

I have used Angular and React as my front ends professionally and for side projects. I am wondering if anyone has used anything else and what your experience has been.

My First Real Side Project

Cesar Melchor — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 05:20:30 +0000

Picture this.

You come up with an idea you think would make a good app. You have dev experience so you say, "I can build that, shouldn't be too hard." You quickly spin up a new project and get to work. You carry that momentum for a couple days, maybe weeks and then...you forget about it.

Has that happened to you?

It has certainly happened to me. There are so many abandoned side project on my hard drive, just waiting there hoping that one day they'll get picked up again. In reality, they wont.

They were not projects I was truly passionate about.

I have my to-do list, static websites, react projects, but most of these were built with the intention to learn. They are projects from courses I have purchased.

This project is the first project I want to complete because it is something I will use myself.

It is a workout tracking application that I hope will be a one for all solution. Tracking workouts, charts, calorie tracker, etc. In order for me to not abandon it; I must think small and work my way up. This is precisely what I am doing.

So far, I have the login/signup page, the list page, and the add page.

That is all for now. I am hoping to write a series, sort of like a "how to" with what I have learned after I deploy it.

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Hello, World!

Cesar Melchor — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 19:22:54 +0000

Hi everyone my name is Cesar.

I will be creating my blog and just writing about my development journey, tips and tricks, hacks. Anything that interests me in the development world.

About Me

I got my Computer Science degree from California State University Long Beach 2017. I started coding my first year of college. I was surprised to learn that many of my peers had some type of coding class in high school and have had coding experience already. I felt behind. I felt like I had put in the hours to finish my difficult projects and to understand the complexity of some of the assignments. It was all new to me. I did not know what errors meant and did not know what to Google aside from copying the error. It was a challenge, but I had fun with the challenges. If a challenge is to easy then I just move and decide to do something else, but coding was not that.

My favorite project that I did for school was developing a clone chess game from scratch in C#(WPF). It has basically a clone from the board in chess.com (move restrictions, available square, undo moves). We also had to use the Minmax algorithm to develop a computer opponent. We had to pass over 500 test that the class had created. Definitely, one of the most challenging projects I had ever done up to that point, but one of the most fun.

During my senior year, I got an internship and later went on to get hired full time. I have been there for 3 years and have collaborated with the team to build 2 internal applications for our operations team to use.