Man, time is sure flying by. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or bad thing. I can still remember how slow week 1 went. Coding was such a new experience, everyday I was building a foundation on a blank slate, and each day felt long and drawn out. Fast forward to the present and it’s already day 1 of week 6! Every day I’m still learning new things but the concepts aren’t as foreign as they once were. A foundation has been laid. I won’t call it solid but it’s there. I’m not sure why times going by as fast as it is now as opposed to how slow it was going initially. Now that I think about it, it kind of makes me nervous that times going by as fast as it is. I’m nearly halfway through the program and there’s still so much I want to learn and practice but the pace of the boot camp is unrelenting.
We’re beginning to transition to back end development. We briefly worked with Google’s Firebase platform. Using it as a database I created a train scheduler for a homework assignment.
The user inputs a train name, destination, the first time it runs, and the frequency. The information gets stored in Firebase and we then use the information to calculate an arrival time and then display everything to the page. Seems pretty straight forward but it was pretty cool for the first time to have user input saved and displayed.
I’m looking forward to learning more about back end development. I think right now if I had to pick between the two I’d probably lean more towards back end. Although creating a visually stunning front end of a website is fun and rewarding, I think I’ll find the back end workings to be more interesting and challenging. That’s just where I’m at now, but who knows what I’ll be thinking by the end of week 12.
My Journey Into Coding 