Well, I’m officially back from Southeast Asia. Check out my Instagram page if you want to see some pictures and notes from the 3 months abroad. As you could have probably noticed, I didn’t update the blog much at all. It’s probably for the best that I wasn’t coding during my time there haha. Anyway, here’s an update about where I’m at.
I got back last week, and got a message from one of my family friends asking if I wanted to do some IT Project Management work. Since I was looking for a job anyway, this worked out perfectly (plus I have some experience in the field). Crossing my fingers everything works, but I’ve got good feelings about this gig so I think it will. This also means that I’ll be working a full time job while trying to also learn how to code. Fortunately my family friend also knows that I’m learning how to code, so this won’t be a permanent long term job (although it is full time hours). With that being said, I’ll be coding after 5pm everyday and even on the weekends if I ever want to land a full time job as a programmer. I’ll give you guys an update once I figure out all the details on the IT PM job, but for now it’s back at it learning how to code.
One of the first things I did this week was setup a document that had all the job requirements for the gig that I’m going to try to land. I’m a bit torn between full stack JavaScript and Ruby on Rails development. If you have any tips, please send them my way. Regardless, it was a great exercise and they involve a lot of the same necessities. So I’m going to keep on keeping on with The Odin Project.
Today, I started learning the basics of jQuery. I had been previously introduced to jQuery, but the Codecademy track today truly showed its powers. I honestly can’t wait to start using it on a real project sometime in the near future. Having the ability to manipulate the DOM in real time is superrrr powerful. So yeah, today was pretty much spent working on the Codecademy jQuery lesson. I’ll leave it at that for today and possibly update with some code examples tomorrow. Still trying to wrap my head around all of the event handlers that were introduced in today’s lesson 🙂 (.on, .click, .val, etc.)