Erics journey to Development and programming

So,     Continuing from I last wrote, I have recently made a discovery on these "hackathons" that take place in california and all over the world. These hackathons are there to partner up with people to form an idea or product to showcase to the crowd within the time limit. Its basically a codeathon for product making, you have 36 hours which is basically the whole weekend, and after further research, I decided to do one since reading reviews on how great it was. It will also be a good experience for me and my friend who has never coded before. This will especially be a good experience for him since a lot of people have been to a hackathon before and never coded before, people will learn along the way to be able to make a full fledged product. I have applied us to two hackathons and this should be quite the experience during the summer time, we also have the summer academy as well to keep us occupied. For now, we are on the self learning route and it is going prett...

Hello ,    As through further days I made some recent discoveries. There were few reasons why I started this blog. One was to prove to those people that you can be successful without earning a degree, second was to kickstart my career as a developer and third was to show that you don't need a cs degree to learn to program. Out of the silicon valley developers about half of the stats show that these developers were self taught and don't have a computer science degree. When I took CS at channel islands I felt as if the learning material that they were providing me wasn't enough to get into the development career. They didn't show you the necessary to tools to get into the development field such as launching your own product and using what they learned to adapt to code. Also if someone has recently been offered the position from a computer science degree, it is most likely that they have self-taught themselves this stuff, also as I have said before I don't think I ...

Hello again,     Just recently I have applied to the make school academy and also planning to apply to the learners guild bootcamp both are really promising school and I am hoping to hear my acceptance to one or even both of them. Both are really good schools and side of it being an alternative to a 4 year university is promising. I just recently discovered on how the interview process for the tech companies work, they conduct a series of questions on your coding and also your portfolio which is intended to be your github. They also ask you a series of programming questions to test your skills a little. I just recently joined a website called codingfight and its basically a website that tests your algorithmic and problem solving skills which is a perfect way to prepare yourself for a technical interview. What tech employers really look for in a young programmer is not credentials but the ability to code and a clean portfolio. I plan to build these skills up and I am hoping t...

Hello,      Its been a while since my last blog of my 2016 journey. So far I have gotten pretty in what I have learned over the past few months of 2017. Right now my strong base of languages consist of html, java/javascript, css, swift and c#. I still have yet to practice my c# but what I am really looking to expanding is knowledge for java and also swift. I have taken mobile development a little seriously, and taken the initiative to find myself a coding bootcamp, to build a professional connection and also continuing in building a professional portfolio. So far the bootcamps that I have applied to are the following Hack Reactor, app academy and makeschool. So far the best that I have seen so far that has a good variety along with a younger generation vibe is makeschool. I hope for the best since I just submitted my application, and hoping I get in. Whichever one I get into will technically be my stepping stool to get into the development field of work and also creat...