Full Stack Developer
As a full stack web developer I am always looking for ways to improve my abilities. From going to School at Bethel Tech, to watching tutorials on YouTube. Every year my abilities grow and my ambition grows right along with it.
Student
As a student at Bethel Tech, I am learning how to bring a project from the design phase all the way through development, and into production. I am learning about Amazon web services (AWS), NodeJS, Angular, React, Express and much much more.
Python
In January 2019, I took Harvard's CS50 Web Programing with Python & Javascript Online. The Class took us through the basics of programming. It started with the basics of C and then worked its way into JavaScript. We spent a week learning some JavaScript and then moved right into Python. After we had learned the basics of Python we learned how to build a simple application in Flask. For the Final in the class we had to build a paper trading stock market App. After finishing the class I found that Flask was a powerful tool but lacked some of the functions I needed. That is when I came across Django.
Django
Django is my favorite Framework in Python. Django is a powerful server side Framework that handles all requests. I got into Django because of how powerful of a framework it was. It takes longer to set up than Flask but it makes handling authentication and complexe requests almost too easy. I used Django to build my web tracker app. It was designed to help my old employer keep track of all their equipment maintenance and location. I was never able to finnish the app as the project was over my head but I learned an amazing amount about Django and MySql.
Javascript
JavaScript is the first Programing Language I learned when I was still in high school. I loved how simple the language was to learn and how powerful of a language it is. I have used javascript in all my projects. Form building games like tic tac toe, and connect four, to this portfolio built with React.
React
It was not until I was a student at Bethel Tech that I even heard of React or Angular. At the time I had already learned Python and Django but even after learning these I still could not get my front end to look and act the way I wanted it too. However as I started to learn about react I released that one of my problems was that I was comparing my work to was advanced websites using Javascript frameworks to control the states. I was trying to make my projects look and act like web applications without knowing that there where whole frameworks built for to make that possible. Now as I build complexe applications using React and Angular I am quite proud of what I can do.
Angular
Angular is one of the last frameworks I learned in school. By the time we got to Angular I was already building complex applications with both front and back ends that would dynamically load and update when anything changes. However the more I learned about Angular the more I came to love the framework. To me Angular seems fairly similar to Django, It has a very clean layout that makes it easy to organize your code. It also come with so much functionality right from the start, making it easy to authenticate your users and and handel the routing within your applications.