After much internal debate and mental turmoil, I have decided to return back to my alma matter, University of Maryland, College Park to take more computer science courses.
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I've had a few different developer interviews over the past few weeks. I don't want to get into specifics about where, right now. Most of my recent momentum, I believe, is due to the fact that I have decided to continue my formal CS/programming education. The other component of this is my growing GitHub profile. My resume looks better.
At the time of this post, GitHub says I have 74 contributions within the last year, which I feel is good progress. If I don't have much professional experience then the next best thing I can do to break into entry level positions is continue developing my online presence and demonstrating practical knowledge developing applications. My first PR for OperationCode was eventually accepted and merged. My next goal is to work a bit on the back end of their website. Doing this has a few obstacles: I am still trying to wrap my head around the Ruby programming language and Ruby on Rails, which the site utilizes. I was trying to fix a minor GH 'issue' for the site and create documentation for a few rails controller functions. The documentation is done with apiary, which I am still learning. To practice for coding interviews I made a repo on GitHub for practicing data structures and algorithms: In Java, I made a simple linked list, bubble sort, binary search, and a class for generating random arrays. A simple API, if you can even call it that. Then I generated a javadoc for each of those classes from the command line. I also made some tests using JUnit; configuring it for the command line was a bit confusing, but I eventually got it running. I want to add delete methods to the linked list class, and maybe try programming a quick sort, as well. Low priority. Also, did a bit of CodeBat (Google it.) and read some of a book. I really want to continue working on my personal website and optimize it. Fix some nagging issues from before and build out a back end. Have no idea what that back end will be for...possibly a blog, but I wonder if I can use Java and SQL for that? Oh yeah, SQL, something else I've been trying to learn, too. Okay, that's a lot of info. Too many languages. All for now. This morning, I made my first pull request for Operation Code, specifically the repository operationcode_frontend! I didn't even resolve a programming issue: A collaborator wanted to change some text from future tense to past tense; it was an invitation to a banquet that had already occurred.
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Christopher Wolff
Writer/programmer. This is where I post my development progress and thoughts. |