So it happened, while there are still 5 projects to finish the back-end certificate, I got my first frontend developer job and I’ve just finished my second week in the new place. A lot to learn in the first period, because I’ll mostly use xml, xsl(t), but with the basics I have gained I could succes…

Awesome! Congratulations! Can you tell us more about your coding journey up to this point? What was the interview process like? What will you be doing at your new job?

IamFlok, For how long had you been learning programming before you got the job?

Thank you all! It took some time to get to this point, I was always interested in coding as a hobby, so I read a few beginners book in the past about python, c++, even php and javascript. I also had some very superficial knowledge of web development, because I’ve made some hobby websites in drupal …

I noticed from your FCC portfolio that you didn’t do any of the data visualization projects. Was that a conscious strategy on your part? I have thought of doing something similar. Postponing doing the game of life and dungeon crawler challenges in order to do some backend challenges.

Yes, for my startup project I had to advance with backend techniques. Data visualization would come after backend for me.

Ok, I was as I said thinking of something similar. Build a couple of the simpler NodeJS projects to be able to say that I have familiarity with NodeJS on an application.

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CordovoGH November 18, 2017, 6:17am 4

That’s awesome to know… congratulations @IamFlok

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