My Year of Code — If (2017 isEnding) {reflectAndSetNewGoals() };

My GitHub graph.

As 2017 ends, I reflect on what I build, what I attended, what I learned, what I taught and what I want to do in 2018.

2017

January

• Published my first app, UPK, which uses NYC Open Data to show public universal pre-kindergarten schools.
• Organized a Women Who Code Meetup event featuring women in iOS.

February

• Published a sticker pack, Dope Sticker Pack.
• Attended the Lead Dev NYC conference on a scholarship.

March

• Attended iOSCon in London on a scholarship.
• Published my second app, theGrindTimer, a version of a Pomodoro timer for productivity.
• Taught a two week front-end development course to 9th and 10th grade students.

April

• Published a second sticker pack, Sakink.

May

• Attended Collision Conference in New Orleans on a scholarship.

June

• Started reading some iOS Big Nerd Ranch books, at the advice of Henry M Ly.

July

• Started documenting/blogging the daily white-boarding problems I solved.
• Started working on a ube-everything app with Jhantelle Belleza.

August

• Updated my website with Bootstrap and raining tacos.

September

• Worked on daily CodeFights.

October

• Reviewed object-oriented programming and software development fundamentals.

November

• Learned C#.
• Familiarized myself with the Visual Studio IDE.
• Learned how to write (and love) unit tests.

December

• Published my third app, I See I Say, a kindergarten sight word flash card app.

2018 Goals

• Extend one of my apps for the Apple Watch.
• Create an Amazon Alexa skill.
• Go easier on myself — not everyone learns the same way.
• Make that anti-mansplaining app I talked about and be sure to include tests for it.
• Figure out RxSwift.
• Build a mobile app with React Native and ship it to Google Play store.

What are your goals? What did you accomplish?