About me
I started my professional journey as a foreign languages teacher a few years ago. Since graduating with a Bachelor's Degree in Foreign Languages in 2016 - I speak Spanish, English, Italian and French -, communication and language learning have been my true passion.
Eventually I decided a career change was best for me; it was no longer fair to exclude machine languages from my repertoire! Though I was completely new to the field, my first class in Programming Fundamentals with Python helped me find comfort in the amount of transferable skills I had from my foreign languages background.
The same way a (missing) tilde may drastically alter the meaning of a sentence, a missing semicolon in Java, for example, is capable of ruining an application. If you want hear me talk a bit more about the relationship between both disciplines, check this podcast out (coming soon).
After learning the basics, I kept on taking more front-end development courses and eventually I received a grant for Montgomery College's Java Web Development bootcamp. Below you will discover my achievements in IT so far, as well as upcoming projects/ideas I'm also working on.
My goals for the Front-End Web Development Certification
The certification process gave me the chance explore different areas of Front-End Web Development, including HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, XML/JSON/AJAX and Responsive Web Design. My goal was twofold: to begin building my resume as a web developer, to gain knowledge of how to design web pages and to eventually understand how the internet actually works.
HTML5:
- To learn the difference between programming languages and markup languages.
- To learn what is a tag/element, an attribute; the difference between src and href, etc.
- Learn how to inspect pages, view and understand html code in other pages.
CSS:
- To be able to change the layout and style of my pages.
- Learn the basics to code CSS rules from scratch, in order to better understand Bootstrap and other CSS Frameworks.
- Be able to tweak my templates to my liking.
JavaScript:
- Learn how to make webpages interactive.
- Learn to make simple animations and to reuse them in different pages.
jQuery:
- Learn about the JavaScript frameworks available.
- Learn to navigate frameworks and combine JS knowledge to tweak effects to my liking.
XML/JSON/AJAX:
- Understand how data is stored and communicated through different languages.
- Better understand how .xml files work inside a Spring Boot Application.
- Learn the syntax of JSON files to have a better understanding of Angular JS, and how it relates to REST API's.
Responsive Web Design (RWD):
- Apply and expand front-end development skills.
- Learn to create a single html file that adapts to any device in a smooth manner.
