I came here just to brag about me receiving the backend certificate
According to GitHub I started the Voting App on 2nd December so it took me three months to finish all five projects (but I took a time off between x-mas and mid-january so it’s more like two months).
At first these projects looked very hard, but at the end I wished for those projects to be more challenging.
I checked the backend projects from Beta site and they are even simpler
I also looked through my API Microservice projects and gosh they were ugly so I refactored them all.
Looks cool man, the stockmarket app doesn’t make much sense? What is the user meant to do?
Maybe a popup modal with instructions on what the app can do would be cool
Actually before I started backend, the Voting App was the only project which made sense to me without reading project description on FCC (and Pinterest Clone didn’t made sense even after reading description; I had to google what Pinterest is, because I couldn’t believe that the last project is so basic ).
It’s not just that the project doesn’t make sense - you have to think from a users perspective.
Why does this app exist?
To allow users to see stocks and trends
That’s all well and good, but when making pages, I realise that we all need to guide the user through the page, letting them know what each thing does on the page, maybe something like this: http://introjs.com/
I think at a minimum, there should be some instructions, FAQ’s, How To’s.
As a basic rule of thumb, I always get my girlfriend and my mum to use my sites, I don’t say anything, i just load up the page and ask them what they think. Inevitably, they click somewhere or do something I absolutely never would expect, and it always exposes flaws in my page.
User experience and accessibility, I’m coming to realise, deserves so much more attention than we care to give it credit.
I can’t help but notice that you only got your back end certificate. I’m curious about your decision to focus on the back end. Did you have a specific job or job type in mind? Are you following someone’s recommended schedule?
I started from the beginning and I’ve already earned my front end certificate. Right now I’m struggling with the React stuff. I think I’ll have an easier time with back end than I did with front end. I have some experience with server administration and back end coding, but it’s been a really long time.
I reset my account at the beginning of this year.
I have only three D3 projects and Dungeon Crawler left to finish the FCC.
But as I’ve heard from other campers who have finished the FCC, there aren’t many non-profit projects after finishing the whole curriculum (at least there are people who have finished FCC and haven’t been assigned to any non-profit projects in three months).
So I’m not in a hurry (and after looking through BETA site I’m growing a bit skeptical about FCC as a whole ).