6 Month Progression

A few months ago I decided to actively persue my interest in front end development and eventually became a full stack developer. Here’s my progression!

1. Learning

Joined Pluralsight, by far my best investment.

2. Projects

Started working on projects that solved specific issues. I solicited ideas from friends and family and began building apps using different frameworks. Most recently I worked with a friend to build a dashboard to oversee personal investments on a car-building project. You can view it here. It’s written using the MEAN stack and hosted on Heroku.

3. Tools

I found the right tools to use to foster a collaborative environment as well as optimize my development environment. I focused on opensource and freeware to get started. My front end project framework post can be found here.

slack,github,travisci,houndci,heroku,visualstudiocode/sublime,node/meanstack,hangouts,mongolab,taiga

4. Teams

Surrounded myself with likeminded people who wanted to improve their coding skills. MeetUps is another great way to build a software dev network. At my day job, I was especially lucky to have a great Mentor that constantly pushed me to learn new things and develop tangible deliverables to showcase what I’ve learned.

5. Branding

Built out a suite of websites using what I learned. Helped me to increase my online footprint as well as showcase my skills.

6. Blogging

Documented my progress for reference as well as to increase my online footprint.

Summary

That’s pretty much it!