I embarked on the DS path and am 72% of the way through it. I also have a 191-day coding streak. I got to complete some cool projects along the way too (many of them new additions to the DS path!) and pushed them to my GitHub repo.
Coding concepts became more solidified in my brain too. (which is always a plus. Lol).
I became a SU, which has been fun. Iām thankful to the other SUās and Mods who, through their detailed coding advice to other learners, I, too, learned things. Iām happy to be a part of this community and help out other learners. Pay it forward is my mantra.
I got to start a NYC CC Chapter with two other awesome people who are also SUās-- @irlfede and @toastedpitabread . Weāve held a number of virtual events and I got to āmeetā & connect with other learners. Itās been fun as well.
Non-coding relatedā
Even though we have all been isolated b/c of the Pandemic, Iāve still stayed in touch with my friends & family (seems even more so now). We celebrated birthdays via Zoom and talk even more frequently; always checking in on one another. I miss them terribly and canāt wait to get the vaccine and then see everyone again.
I started to focus more on crocheting and have learned a bunch of new stitches (including how to do Tunisian crochet). Iāve made So.Many.Thingsāscarves, small blankets, hats. Itās fun and gives my brain something else to focus on.
Coding: I learned basically every language I know, and Iāve began developing an app(not that itās any good!) I became a SU, which has been an amazing experience; especially working with the other SUs, mods, and CMs!
Non-coding: Iāve finished some exams Iāve had looming for ages!
I started the web developer course and have made it to the 98% part of the course which Iāll be finishing this week.
With everything I learned from the course I wrote a twitch chat bot that interacts with a database to store āwould you rather?ā questions and ask them whenever someone used the command !wur in chat. This used the entire stack so I now consider myself a full stack developer.
I learned HTML, CSS, Javascript, React, Node.js, Git, and the following javascript modules handlebars, mongoose, sqlite3, mongodb
I learned how to make a complete CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) API using express and routes.
I learned test driven development and the red green refactor cycle of developing an application from the outside in to leverage a testing suite for all layers of the application to give maintainable, complete, fast, isolated, reliable, expressive tests that would give anyone confidence that the system is working as intended.
I started the web development career path and quickly switched to the full stack path as soon as it was available. I built a few projects that I am proud of, most notably being:
A music site and a videography site for my brother.
A photography site for my friend.
A site that showcases my strengths and weaknesses.
Most notably I built a portfolio website that implements a little bit of JavaScript that I found to be a big jump in quality among my sites! http://silkwebdev.com/
Honestly I am very happy to be learning on Codecademy, impressed with the ease of learning.
I used Codecademy to score a job at a web company in just a few months, I went from 0 coding knowledge to being able to write HTML & CSS and now Iām doing SEO for the clients at my company, all thanks to Codecademy!
Coding: I have done the Computer Science path, and I am starting the Data Science path. I have also learned Python, which I have never used. I have some ideas that I want to develop.
Non-coding: I have found a job! I have made new friends. I have come back to playing basketball.
I started learning the skill path visualize data with Python and got an internship for 5 months. I then started on the Data Scientist path which has helped me learn a lot of things. I participated in a few hackathons and won some of them. This year was very different, and for some people it was not good. But for me, this was the best year so far of my life.
Thank you Codecademy for providing a 90 day Pro scholarship in March. It was because of that I was able to get an internship and learn Machine Learning which I always wanted to learn but never got to.
Iād say that my biggest 2020 win was beating Covid (woo!), closely followed by me finally taking the plunge and immersing myself in the process of learning to code. Iām still very much a newbie (slowly outgrowing my HTML/CSS training wheels) but itās genuinely been so rewarding so far and I canāt wait to see what Iāll create in 2021!
Shoutout to everyone involved at CodeAcademy for creating this platform & community because itās such an incredible resource and yāall truly are incredible.
I think my biggest win this year is starting to learn how to code. I have never really been interested in coding until this year. I hope I can continue learning more about coding and make it into my career some day.
Biggest win: starting my programming journey! Thanks to the 3 months of free PRO Codecademy provided to students near the beginning of this year, I starting learning how to code and got involved with this wonderful community.
Becoming an SU --> Iāve learnt much on these forums and appreciate the opportunity to give back; Iām grateful for the other amazing mods and SUs here!
And just a few days ago, finishing the Computer Science Career Path!
Thanks to a PRO scholarship in March I was able to start coding with some consistency -still have a long way to go but now I have more time to focus the only way is up!
I learned about the Command Line, Git and GitHub
I publicly posted some of my code for the first time
I overcame some roadblocks I encountered using JS syntax
I purchased a PRO subscription to āpay it forwardā
Non-coding:
At the start of the year I (through no fault of my own) was homeless. With a lot of hard work and sacrifice I got a home just as the pandemic began to cause chaos.
I helped keep some other people safe, fed and sane during lockdown -much harder than it sounds!
I did math courses, Advanced Linear Algebra and Engineering Calculus. Theoretically I also put work into the publication of a deep learning project from the two years before, but that did not work due to some data security problems, which was very annoying. I hope for a better year in 2021.
Code related:
Well, 2020 was a awful year in general, I coundāt do most of the things that I love to do. But, it made me think about my future and what I pretend to do with it. So I started a game development journey, and until now it is being AWESOME.
I mean, I finished a bunch of courses, participated in some game jams, even found a freelance job as a Unity Developer on a team (But wonāt receive money until our game releases, but thatās more than okay, Iām there for the experience).
With Unity I could finally focus on one language that I like, in my case is C#. But at the end of 2020 I was feeling stuck, feeling a little lost, and was on the last day of 2020 that I decided to REALLY learn C#. now Iām here at Codeacademy and itās going really well!
Non-code related: Was a really hard year, spend most of my free time helping my grandmother because she coundāt go out. But at the end of it, itās everything just fine, hope 2021 will be better.