I just completed my first project for my Flatiron software engineering program, and it feels so good! I had never even thought about coding outside of the lens of "Oh, really smart people do that!" until this past August, and although this is just the beginning of my journey, it's incredible how much I've grown since then.
I have never been so thoroughly challenged and excited by anything as I have these past few months learning to code. Every day marks a new concept or a new perspective on how to implement something.
Although I experienced the feelings of Impostor Syndrome that are not unfamiliar to developers throughout the process, creating this gem was a fantastic way for me to prove to myself just how much I have learned.
The gem is designed to interact with the Dev.to API and retrieve the most popular posts. I totally geeked out while working on it when I realized that I was actually able to see the top post change when printed to the terminal. Seeing that real, changing data come through my design for the first time is a feeling that I'll never forget!
My major sources of gripe were dealing with environment issues that sounded vaguely life-threatening and a problem with Bundler that has plagued more than a few of us.
I decided to center this project on this community's work, because I recently discovered it through Twitter, and I think that it is a valuable alternative resource for #CodeNewbies and vets alike. Thank you all for the great work you all do!
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