Erics journey to Development and programming

   Sept 28th, 2017       We are getting ready to close our 2nd month and just about to move into our 3rd month of the course. For the new students that are reading this blog, keep in mind that this course is brutally, excruciatingly difficult. If you know for a fact that this is what you want to do and willing to sacrifice a lot of free time, then apply. At the start of the program, I was in a desperate state, I couldn't afford the move to san francisco so makeschool was definitely out of the question. At the time my only move was to attend coding dojo and pull out a 10k loan which was highly risky for my age. Being 23 in the adult world isn't as easy as it looks, people tend to not take you seriously majority of the time, unless you are highly skilled and a hard negotiator, which I am not. Then came Lambda School, I came across the ad on facebook, and I was fascinated by the high amounts of praise for their instructors. I took a look at their website, and then...

Hello,     First and for most, I want to thank those for reading my blog. It definitely means a lot to me that you willing to know more about the school that is making such an impact on my life and the process of becoming a developer. We just started our 2nd week of mongodb and what I've noticed is that the process of making an api is getting harder and harder. We learned that promises over callbacks tend to have a cleaner look rather than callbacks, because it makes them easier to read. Also with the more complex web apps that is being built the harder the back end is going to be. This stuff is not easy, but boy oh boy, stuff like this is making me love cs even more. I'm definitely going to have to practice more backend stuff, because programming stuff like this makes me feel even more like a programmer.   As for the project goes so far we have our first full stack project coming up real soon, so my mind is having mixed thoughts on what I want to do as a project, because...

Hello,    So far we have completed a 1/3 of the course and still have many things to go over as we proceed to our 3rd month. As of now we are just learning how to develop our first api and for those who don't know an api stands for application programming interface, it is a set of instructions to help the communication of a client and a server. To be honest I think it is a lot more fun to code the backend rather than the front end just because of the fact that I have been coding the frontend for a while now and something new like coding the backend has really caught my eye.   Just about a week ago, I had the feeling of being burnt out , and wanted to switch out of my cohort. Suddenly it hit me though, I realized that too much of something wasn't good for me, so I decided to take a trip somewhere. I wanted someplace perfect. Someplace that didn't cost too much money and was also fun at the same time. Disneyland was pretty much in my reach, it wasn't too far of a dri...

Hello again,     For this week, it has been a pretty rough one. I dealt with a Monday being burnt out on everything. I was learning everyday and was starting to feel a little bit burnt out on everything that was being thrown at me. I felt burnt out because I felt like I wasn't moving forward with my life and that I was stuck in the middle of the mud with all this hoping in my head. It suddenly came to me though, why I started looking for a good coding school and why I started this blog in the first and that was to make something out of myself. The reason why I decided to go with a coding school and to not continue with college was to prove the people that doubted me wrong. I wanted to shut them up and prove a point. For me to accomplish this though would require me a tremendous amount of work. I know my path and I want to set things straight. I started all of this so I can have a sense of belonging in my family.   Just today we had our brown bag from austen today about ...

Hello,     Things are just starting to become more difficult for me as time passes through. As I get more and more concentrated in the work and the progress I want to achieve I feel as if there a lot of things that are just holding me back. I have not mentioned this before but as my current living standards at this point, I am couch hopping at the moment to find a proper place to rent, which is extremely sad for me. It is very hard to concentrate on my school, when the people that I am living with right now is sort of pushing me out and I have a feeling that matters are going to exceed to a higher point, because of a visiting from their parents.    As of currently right now I don't know where I will end up at this point and as of right now, I feel like the friendship between myself and my roommates (who is a couple , need I mention) is getting more distant. The possibilities of living with these two are coming close to an end and our relationship is coming to a nea...

Hello,    Coming back from another class session and this time around. I am actually done with the first month of lambda school. The experience so far has been quite of a rocky start, but as time progressed, we are all now starting to get comfortable with each other (hopefully). By now we have just started our course towards the more advanced topics like react js and redux, along with data fetching protocols. We are almost done with our http/ajax sprint which consists of making a friendslist application that incorporates a middleWare type extension to handle data fetching protocols. We are learning so much on fullstack development and this is basically what I wanted in the first place.    Javascript has also being a part of my strong points this time around since I'm working on it everyday from this point. Pretty much my knowledge and growth for computer science is expanding and as of now. The best analogy that we have been taught was that your source of knowledge fo...