![]() My wife, Kaitlynn, and I are having dinner while our kids play and she drops a real first-world problem on me: "I hate going to HEB (our local grocery store) because I can never tell what our total will be until I'm at the checkout. ![]() Let me back up a few steps to a couple of days ago. A working web application that scans barcodes, talks to the grocery chain's non-public API, adds products to a list, calculates the total and factors in sales tax. That's why I feel proud to have created what I did in such a short time frame. That has roughly been the extent of my javascript training, in truth, with only a few other small introductions to the language in passing. From the day I write this post to when I signed up has been exactly 14 days, and I'm still only halfway through. I bit the bullet and signed up for Wes Bos' free 30 day javascript course, Javascript 30. Sure, I had worked with Javascript plugins and packages before, I considered myself to be capable enough to figure the implementation part out even if I didn't really understand the language itself. But here I was, realizing that learning a new programming language was well overdue. ![]() Swimming in the waters of databases, object oriented programming, and beautiful frameworks like Laravel to create some fairly robust web software for the company I work for, DieselCore. I've been a backend web developer for several years now. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |