Erics journey to Development and programming

Hello again,      So far my self learning route is slow due to personal issues of being depressed and sick most of the time, but I feel as if my understanding of the flow of data and how things are produced in code are getting better and better. As of right now, I am taking a course on coursera, which is basically a self learning web application that can let you participate in college courses. As for obvious reasons, I am taking the computer science course and so far, I am learning a lot. Also thanks to java, it helped me get the clear understanding of how object oriented programming works and I'm just getting started too. I completed the java course on codeacademy as well, as I move forward, I am studying to fully understand and become fluent in the java language. If I do this then programming in c#, C or even c++ will be near. I have tried python, ruby, and even swft and I just cant seem to the experience for it, with java it feels like I can get the full programmin...

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...

Hello again,     Its been a couple of days since I posted but I'll give a recap of what I just accomplished over the 2 weeks. Over the 2 weeks I've been experimenting with an IDE called Xcode. Xcode is an Integrated Development Environment used to make iOS apps, software and more. The two primary languages used in the ide is swift and obj-c, I've created my very first calculator and I got to experiment with the View Controller here and there. What the calculator does is that it measures the amount of coffee beans you would want to have in order to make your coffee. After the simplistic creation of a calculator, I decided to create an app that is more realistic to the apps that we use today. I wanted to make something more like instagram but more simplistic, so I went ahead with the idea, and so far the work progress is going great. I plan to have an interface that is just as simplistic as instagram but an organization solution towards the pictures you post, I hope to fini...

Hello again Friend,       Theres 11 days till christmas and I am making the big move on developing my first app. The app that I envisioned is an organization app of fashion photography. This app will consist of an interface that  will allow you to organize your pictures of clothes, so you can have a basic idea of what clothes you would want to wear the next day. The name of the app will be called the 'creative closet' and it will allow the user to mix and match clothes along with that organize outfits that you have matched. i plan to have an endless variety of organization of what you can do with the app. I just started working on the interface, and hopefully everything will go according to plan. Other than the news I have for my startup, I went through some digging of my past work I did back in High School. As I stated in the earlier blog, I have been coding since I was in elementary school and one of the ways I started was by playing around with html and css codi...