Erics journey to Development and programming

Nov 7th, 2017       Couple of days after my big day at the Google dev festival, I come back strong with a slight experience of talking to other professional developers and getting to know the field more. When the day started for us, we just finished our intro to the CS course of lambda school. I was very familiar with he architecture so nothing was really new to me except for the protocols being explained a little more thorough. We finished the lectures of the intro to CS and the architecture, now it was time to move onto C programming, and boy oh boy were we in for a wild ride.   The moment we jumped into C programming, we all looked pretty puzzled throughout and it wasnt getting any easier for us. This is probably the hardest thing  I've done here yet and C programming is not a forgiving language to grasp. The objective wasn't just to learn C but the abilities to grasp another language quickly like we were javascript. This is a very difficult task for C prog...

Nov 4th, 2017    10AM:        We first started off the day with a keynote speaker talking about being a developer for 21 years. Seeing him in his shoes and learning to adapt to different technologies developing over the years, must be pretty hard to get used to, he explained that the process can get difficult to get used to but with a bit of trusting the process, he got used to it. As of now I am prepping up for my first code lab learning about the Ionic framework, which is the equivalent to react native for angular. I was able to meet with two very well experienced developers and it is surprised to my knowledge that there are different types of platforms that developers stand on for development. There was one developer I have met and he told me that he developed on .Net, which is really interesting. Also  met another presenter who is a developer for kotlin, who came all the way from France!. So as of now, it is a great start and I'll keep an up t...

Oct 31, 2017: Halloween    It's Halloween today, and today, I'm just planning to code the entire day completely. The whole holiday spirit of halloween, going to parties and trick or treating is currently not in my cycle anymore, although it is still fun to dress up as a character. So far we have completed the break week of lambda school for cohort 2, and this time around we will be starting the CS course of the school.   We just got a taste of it just yesterday and some of the things looked a lot familiar to me just because of the fact that I have built multiple gaming pcs in the past. Even when I was little, my older brother and I would make a computer from scratch. It was really fun to start learning of the architecture of the computer and it is compromised of. We started off learning about transistors and logic gates which was really fascinating. As for the project for this sprint, we are required to write a core of a cpu to support the following instructions. #inputf...

Oct, 26th 2017      So just recently we got released to work on our personal projects for the cohort. I have been working constantly and thinking hard on what I wanted to do for my personal project. I remember stating that I wanted to do 5 projects, well the number of things that I wanted to accomplish in order to have a good portfolio was impossible so, I decided to just make 2 projects instead of 5 being a hard number to reach in the amount of time that we had. I decided to make a taxi booking application for my react-native side of things and a website for finding marvel comic books with the marvel api.    I have gotten so much done in the shortest amount of time for the project and it is turning out really well. I used a good amount of packages and dependencies to make the projects work in the ways that I would want it to. I learned also on how to implement redux into react-native as well, instead of the typical ways of returning the actions in the action cr...

Oct 18th, 2017      Here we are, top of the mountain final stretch. We just got done with our devops, despite the fact of me not liking devops at all, we have finally reached the top of hill and about to embark our journey way done. So one of the things we are required to do next is called a personal project, the project doesn't have to have everything that we have learned up to the point, but we are required to make it a fullstack project. There's a list of projects thats flowing through my head by one of the top projects that I have always wanted to make, that includes making a project using the ibm watson api or something with the marvel api. Whatever it is that I'm going to make, I'm going to try to make the accomplishment of making 5 personal projects.   It seemed as if there was a lot going on with the instructors and the relationship of cs2. My cohort can be very intimidating as most of us are pretty skilled at this. So I"m going to have to do my best thes...

Oct 16th, 2017     For the past couple of months, I've been dealing with so much with lambda school. To making new friends, to accomplishing coding challenges, to having social interaction with instructors, and to dealing with depression/working under stress. Towards the beginning, this school is starting to change my life and these were the points that I wanted to make as a college dropout. I wanted to show those who have doubted me that you can make it without the worth of an expensive piece of paper. It shouldn't and should NOT let it define you, as I pin pointed out from my last blogs, my objective is similar to lambdas and thats to prove that a an underprivileged like myself can make it . Oct 16th 2017, Update:     Just got off the phone with tai one of our instructors for lambda school. Earlier, I decided to ask him a serious question and this was it, "Out of all the things you've been through, especially going through lambda school, would you do it again? and ...

Oct 9th, 2017    With so much that is going on, I notice a lot of things since the start of the program. My skills as a programmer are improving everyday, and its remarkable how much I have improved within just 3 months. The best part is, we're not even finished yet. By the time I write this post we would've reached the react native course which is close to being done with the full-stack javascript section of the school, afterwards we have our introduction to C/C++ programming which is majority of the time employers want. Reasons as to why they would want this so much is because of the fact that you have a good/basic understanding of what goes on under the hood.   So theres a couple of things that I noticed right when I first started the program, first thing was my ability now to tackle coding challenge problems, at the start being able to start a coding challenge problem was difficult for me, but after repetitive reps and constant thinking; my skills for solving these...