Happy 4th of July to everyone here in the US and around the world. My neighbors have been launching illegal fireworks since yesterday and if it is anything like last year this will continue until next week when everyone finally runs out of rockets and Roman candles and whatever else they bought. Yes, these fireworks are all illegal in Las Vegas. But so many people are shooting them that the police can't possibly catch everyone. At least not in one night.
Even though class was not in session today, my homework still needed to be completed and turned in. I created my first Github hosted page to go with all the repos I've built in the past week. Here is my chance to vent: creating a Github user page seems like a very important thing for a developer. This is where my sites will be hosted. This is the place where my future employers will go to find my work and decide if they want to pay me to keep doing things like that. In spite of all that we didn't cover in class how to actually set up a gh-page. It wasn't too terribly hard to find a tutorial on the web. But I'm paying a lot of money to make sure I'm in shape to get a job after this bootcamp is done. So a little help on that one would have been nice.
I also have the sneaking suspicion that all of the JS code I wrote over the last two days is completely wrong. Especially since many of them passed node testing on the first try. I didn't suddenly become some JS expert. Or maybe I am not giving myself enough credit. I was warned about the reality of the impostor syndrome; the feeling that you are faking your actual abilities and someone will eventually find out that you suck.
The important thing is that I'm getting better at thinking like a programmer. I can look at problems and break them into smaller, easier-to-manage problems. I can often get the correct syntax too. But its going to be a long road yet. There is still plenty of JS to learn.
I've got one eye on my Capstone project for the end of the course too. There are a couple of ideas that could be fun and very challenging too. Right now I can't imagine doing anything beyond building a calculator. After all of the firework-related injuries today perhaps the best thing to invent would be a mobile app that only needs one or two fingers to operate.
