Erics journey to Development and programming

   February 15th, 2018      Tomorrow will mark the day I graduate from Lambda School. Its been a journey of the past 6 months but I am here to finally say that I have finally completed something. They years I have been going were a rough patch in my life and I am hoping for the better as the years go by. I am more than proud to say that I am a graduate of cs2, that first started off with more than 50 people, and I am one of the final 7 people that made it.    It wasn't easy to get where I am now, and there were times where I wanted to just give up, but I just kept going. I never gave up even when the tough kept going; I never gave up because I knew exactly what I wanted. Currently now because of some recent events, theres more fire in my eyes than there ever was before. Not only am I fighting for my goals of becoming a software engineer, but to also fight for a change in my life; for a fresh start and for something new. Which is why I decided to ai...

February 10, 2018    Its been a decent amount of time since my last blog. Over the past couple of weeks, I've been very dedicated and thriving to improve my craft day by day and so far the hard work has paid off. Starting off Lambda School, I barely knew a thing about Data Structures, algorithms and CS in general. The amount of reading and time I have put in to understanding the content and also putting it into practice during practice of interviews, has gotten me to a very far point as of now. Its amazing of how much I can accomplish just by putting in months of work.   To recap of what is going on in Lambda School, I will be graduating in about 1 more week!. The time has come for me to end the program, but the journey is not finished yet. With some much that I've learned, the journey of becoming a better programmer can always take a long time, even years!. The most important that I've learned about this field is that the tech industry grows exponentially as time passes ...

Dec 12th, 2017      About a year ago I started this blog to track my progress, and looking back at how far I've come, its has been quite the journey for me from Dec 2016 - Dec 2017. 1 year has just past by and everything has just happened so quickly!. It feels like just yesterday I got accepted into Lambda School, at that moment I started seeing stars. The feeling that I finally found the school for me was extraordinary and exhilarating, I was so eager to start working and learn about the thing I love the most, software!.    Around the moment of August and the day I was first accepted I was already working on the pre-course work. My parents were disappointed that I had dropped out of college and disagreed with my thoughts that the traditional system is starting to become outdated, and my thoughts on traditional system have not changed since then. The moment I got kicked out of college I had just discovered what I wanted to study all along and that was compu...

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...