Day 7–9 JS FTW
Struggles: So clearly the homework ramped up as I’m doing a three day recap versus one a day. The homework along with family responsibilities is causing a bit of a strain. There’s something about trying to mow an acre of land as fast as possible to make dinner to be able to do a couple hours of coding in the evening.
The work itself I’ve not had any major issues with as fortunately I did the Web Development Basics class and some CodeAcademy items to get me up to speed.
The biggest struggle with JavaScript that I’m having issues conceptualizing is probably the use of Loops. Sure I get the breakdown but applying them with variables makes my head hurt. I know practice will help this out quite a bit.
Understood: Object literals makes sense. I mean it just does. Applying to a variable a list of objects which are just a list of keys with values is easy to put together in the ol’ noggin. The same goes for Arrays. Arrays are just lists. Problem solved.
Looking forward to: Back-end. I keep floating through my mind either doing front-end or back-end. I’m not in love with front-end development. I know I could get a job faster with front-end especially knowing React but getting to know some back-end would really help me figure out what I want to focus on. I know it’s some time away but I’d like to be prepared.
Other tidbits: I’m fully committed to the program and finishing out but part of me is leaning either to doing contract work after or possibly using the knowledge I’ve gained to do more product management with a tech company. This way I could actively use my knowledge with my career experience. I might need to research this a bit more. It’s possible I’ll change my mind in a week or so.