I'm currently striving forward to become a still junior full-stack software engineer but with solid foundations and an ability to learn, and... I do enjoy it quite much !
After teaching Classics for three years, I'm currently learning programming at Ada Tech School, a dev school where you learn by doing. No classes, but a written curriculum, available mentors, and many two-week group projects and frequent problem-solving.
I've begun the 9-month formation in October, 2021 and am now looking for a one-year internship/apprenticeship starting in June, 2022 or in the following months.
Apart from the more grounded skills I've been confident enough to put in the badges up there, I've also done some forays in functional programming with Elm, a front-end-oriented FP language, dabbled in many languages and concepts through my formation (coding a chrome extension doing API calls and styling the received data / a game in PICO-8 - a fantasy console integrating many tools for pixel-art, music, mapping, where you code in Lua / refactoring and completing a pre-existing PHP social network, thus using XAMPP and getting more familiar with the use of a relational database (MariaDB) / coding from scratch a mock e-commerce website to sell second-hand furniture with React, Django and a database / coding an iOS app in Swift for listing SurfSpots from an existing API, allowing navigation by categories, and displaying a detailed view with an interactive map / and then implementing our own API for this same project using Go and a database.)
Every Friday is work-on-what-you-want day at Ada Tech School. I usually do some katas but above all work on The Odin Project curriculum, a very solid full-stack web curriculum to learn efficient programming and autonomous problem-solving with progressively more ambitious projects. A shout-out to this amazing open-source endeavour !
- Details to come !
SurfSpots (iOS application) - WIP till June 30th
iOSpreview.mp4
- Books: Practical Object-Oriented Design: An Agile Primer Using Ruby (POODR) by Sandi Metz [reading],
You Don't Know JS Yet by Kyle Simpson [reading] - Newsletters: CSS-Tricks, Javascript Weekly, Ruby Weekly, A11y, Guriosity
- Misc: Podcasts, official documentation, random articles, Stack Overflow, ...
Codingame language certifications: Javascript (top 1%), Ruby (top 1%)
freeCodeCamp certifications: JS algorithms & data structures