100 Days of Code 71-80
My 7-year career journey has taken me from pharmacy to biostatistics and data science, and then to web development. Starting on the front-end side, I built multiple websites, application UIs, and analytics dashboards custom-made for pharmaceutical companies. Now, I'm finding my niche in the back-end side thanks to the elegantly simple Go language, which I used to build Gopen, a CLI that helps me quickly open projects from a terminal, along with some REST APIs and full-stack applications. I love tinkering with software, I write about it in my personal blog, and I'm always looking forward to a new challenge or problem to solve.
Summary
Here is the part where I go all in on learning backend development! I started a subscription to Boot.dev which teaches Python and Go.
Also, my site is improving with project content and a Buy Me a Coffee link. What started as a little program to generate HTML turned into a full-fledged site, and I'm proud of that!
Day 71 / Sep 30
Started boot.dev which is a bootcamp-like platform for backend development - I started the first course which is an introduction to Python
Made some adjustments to the blog to allow unfurling in social links but still needs some work
Day 72 / Oct 1
- Completed the introductory Python course in Boot.dev
Day 73 / Oct 2
Started the next Boot.dev course which is about OOP. Not a huge OOP fan, but a refreshment is still nice.
Followed some introductory tutorials in the official Go documentation website
Day 74 / Oct 3
Followed a tutorial in the official Go docs to connect a Go program to a SQL database
Finished the OOP course in Boot.dev plus a little guided project on Boot.dev that aims to help set up a local development environment.
Day 75 / Oct 4
Started writing a blog article
Started the next course in Boot.dev which teaches FP. Coming from Clojure, everything seems easy in that topic (not that the previous ones were hard)
Day 76 / Oct 5
Finished the FP course in Boot.dev and started the next one which teaches algorithms
Started building a little CLI in Go - I really wanna focus on learning by building
Day 77 / Oct 6
- Finished the algorithms course in Boot.dev and started the next one on data structures
Day 78 / Oct 7
Solved some exercises in the data structures course
Set up a Buy Me a Coffee account
Reorganized the blog and added the "Buy me a coffee" link
Day 79 / Oct 8
- More data structures on Boot.dev
Day 80 / Oct 9
- Also more data structures on Boot.dev, but it's getting harder and harder to progress now
