Nearing the halfway point at Fullstack Academy NY

Jackson Sui
Aug 26, 2017 · 2 min read

Just a short 5 weeks ago I began in the junior phase at Fullstack knowing only the fundamentals of Javascript. What I’ve learned since then is, as the name suggests a fullstack for web development in JS. Early on we got our hands dirty with the Express library for setting up servers and routes, and moved onto Sequelize to work with persisting data in a database. More recently we’ve moved into creating fluid single-page apps using React and Redux to manipulate DOM elements. The pace has been breakneck, but by the end of each workshop I feel more confident in my understanding of my web-dev toolkit.

I am excited to be moving into the senior phase of Fullstack, which is more project driven, to really get my feet wet and see what I can accomplish as a developer. There are two large projects, one solo and the other as a group. It will be exciting to not only build, but also design and brainstorm an application, and I am looking forward to working in a team setting. The others in my cohort are some strong coders and I cannot wait to see what we as a group come up with.

In between the junior and senior phases there is a review week that allows everyone to recharge and tie up any loose-ends in their understanding of the material. In addition to tying up my own ends, I want to do some exploring into the Phaser framework for designing games in on HTML. I’ve always been something of a gamer and sometimes sitting in lecture, we’ll learn something new and I thing ‘oh, this would be really cool to incorporate into a game’. So, perhaps look out in a couple of weeks for a post about Phaser!

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