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Long time no posting!

But I’m still alive. Here it is my progress

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Every time I use the terminal I find myself thinking I’m at Hogwarst learning a new spell. It is all about little “how-tos” and “where-tos”.

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Exciting news. I’ve delivered the second project successfully 🙌🏻.

I’m very happy. It has been hard. At first, I thought I would be easier than the previous project as I had learnt a lot in the first project about routes, decorators, paths, etc. Oh my God, I was wrong.

This time the project was split in backend and frontend, what makes sense, for sure. But I’m not an expert in frontend so to start I was struggling to send the data properly.

Unfortunately they didn’t explain well the project and I hadn’t full information of how the webpage I had to built worked. Often, when you have to do this kind of projects where you have to complete some functionalities they do a brief demo of the final solution so you can make up your mind and see how it should work in the end. That wasn’t the case this time.

It just made it more difficult to follow. They recommend start doing the backend at the beginning and test it in the terminal using CURL.

Well, following that instruction I did it has I was said. But when I tried to join it with the frontend, for nobody surprise, it didn’t work.

There were bugs to fix in the frontend before it started to work. That was annoying because that wasn’t part of the course and required an experienced person to help.

In the end, I could implement everything, do the needed fixes in the original code and push it to GitHub successfully.

But there was another part to do as part of the course. It was very interesting for me as it was something I heard a lot and I’ve never could apply it in my job. This is nothing but test your code by coding.

I always test my code, of course. But I do it by testing the final result and document it in somewhere: jira, excel, any specific file… but never using a code to test. I usually write the septs I follow and also the result wether it is the expected or not.

That blew my mind. It is very useful! I really liked it even though I got some unexpected errors in the meantime that I needed to solve before doing the proper test and check the result.

To sum up my experience in this second project:

Positive things:

- I tested my code by coding. I liked this way of working a lot.

- I customised, with some mentor help, the VSCode properly to run the tests and debug my code.

- I installed a theme for the terminal that helps me a lot to read the errors and everything inside.

- I applied my previous learning with databases, Flask and Python.

- I learnt how to identify when an error is in the frontend or in the backend.

- I used a little bit of JavaScript to fix the frontend bugs.

Not that positive things:

- I felt stressed and powerless a lot during the project. The course content wasn’t aligned with what they requested in the final checklist. This bad feeling was bigger as I really enjoyed the videos and explanations. Before starting I felt well prepared to start coding and in the end that wasn’t true.

- The effort was bigger than expected. It took a lot of hours to finish and deliver the project.

- I faced issues when uploading the repo to GitHub. In this case, it as totally my fault because I did it wrong from the beginning when I clone the repo.

Well, three more projects left!

Actually, I have to start the third project this week. I already finished watching the videos and I guess I’m ready to start coding. Let’s see how it goes this time. I’ll back here to share my conclusions.

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At the end of the first mistborn era Breeze had a big place in my heart ♥️

What an amazing book and… art. Thank you!

Vin and Breeze 

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Well, two months without posting. And what a two months…! Oh, my… anyway I’m here to remark that I finished and uploaded the first project of the nanodegree I’m doing with Udacity.

It has been tought, heavily tought. Since, and yes I’m saying since, first day of December I’ve been sick 🤒. I’m still not fully recovered but I’m doing well now.

But unfortunately I couldn’t work as hard as I would like to or just, should and during the lasts weeks I have been working heavily on the project. Plus my regular 8-5 work it has been hard.

Any way, here I am with the first project published and good memories of the process. I don’t want to forget the weekend mornings programming python, having breakfast and watching Shin Chan in the telly.

Things I learned until now:

Feel confortable with the terminal and some basic commands.

Python language

The use of SQLAlchemy

Debugging in visual studio

Git

How to connect data bases with the application (Flask) and work with it: CRUD.

I have to say a big thanks, huge in fact, to my dearest husband who helped during the journey.

Now, four more projects left.

Keep going and keep growing!

#Udacity #python #softwareengineer #woman in software #FullStackDeveloper

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I started the lost metal today and I’m thrilled

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I’m very excited today. Yesterday I got news that I’m finalist to do a nanodegree with Udacity and oh my goodness! The agenda is awesome. Fingers crossed 🤞🏻

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Lately, I’ve been thinking how our dreams and aspirations change as time goes by.

Something you saw as impossible or really hard to achieve, looks like not enough eventually and, sadly, disappointing when you success on it.

When I was working in other company I often look at some colleagues that were quitting to join to other companies with a feeling of how lucky they were. Not envy, just thinking they were better than me as they got better opportunities. Now, I am currently working in one of those marvellous companies and I can’t help but keep looking for new opportunities in better companies. What is wrong with us that we can enjoy the success?

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I’ve been using twitter for more than 14 years. My interaction has decreased at the same time than it became more and more popular.

Now, I still have my account but I only use it for catch up with some people that I met in the early days.

I migrated to Mastodon the last Sunday and I haven’t post anything yet as I want my first toot being something cool.

I have to say that I would like to bring some of my timeline with me to Mastodon but I’m also thrilled that it’s a new start there.

I have this Tumblr account too where nobody knows me -yet-, though. As this was my reborn I don’t feel the urgency of post in Mastodon yet.

Anyway, I wanted to register in Mastodon to know what’s about because I found 🤯 that people that joined to twitter just a couple of years ago and now they’re leaving it. They missed the best years!

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To all that people who every year complain about the winter timetable and that this year they added a new argument -the lack of saving due the amazing increase of the electricity prices-: have you ever tried to get up earlier? Perhaps what’s wrong is you wasting electricity working when there isn’t light outside.

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💻🚀 What a weekend! I’ve been working on this small project the whole weekend and I’ve just finished this afternoon and uploaded it to GitHub. This is the first time I code by my own in JavaScript and I had a lot of fun 🤩. #womenintech #softwareengineer #softwaredevelopment #javascript #github https://www.instagram.com/p/CkrIkn_o6Wu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Don’t judge me. I’m just starting.

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Today the heating was turned on so definitely the late summer clothes don’t fit anymore in the wardrobe.

What a pleasure to have a warm flat again, by the way. 🥹

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What did I learn this week…?

Just to keep going day by day.

Keeping in mind that 20’ also count in the totals.

Also a few projects came to my mind. I wrote them down in a note to don’t forget them.

I realised that once my mind is relaxed, new ideas appear.

Be kind with yourself. And speak out loud your concerns. You meant to be listened.

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It has been the first time of the season it smells like autumn. 🍂🍄

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Something that Starbucks gives to me is the opportunity of being alone surrounded by a lot of people.

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Hello world! #womenintech #itgirl #tech #coding #softwareengineer #softwaredeveloper #softwaregirl https://www.instagram.com/p/CkTTUvLoHdK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=