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[WIP] AITBW's Road To Dune #4
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# Dr. Strangelove or: How I handled my stubbornness to become a web developer | |||
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Becoming a developer can be a pretty underwhelming task these days, especially if you delve into the [JavaScript](https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2016-d3a717dd577f) land, where _the new kid on the block_ can be thrown into obscurity in a matter of days. |
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Did you mean overwhelming
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It might be better to concatenate two or three of these paragraphs into one. As a general feedback for this whole document.
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Yes, overwhelming
is the right word. Sorry about that. 🙊
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Please update the contents of the markdown 🤗
You must be asking: Then why did you went for Engineering? | ||
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1. I love a good challenge | ||
2. I didn't see myself in the future as anything other than an Engineer |
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Do you mind elaborating on why? This might be something relevant for the reader. Many people I know were influenced into becoming engineers because their parents were engineers. Was that the case for you?
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Hmm 🤔 There are several points to elaborate further on this one:
- My dad pushed me into the IT world from a very early age
- I used to be an avid gamer, so PCs were fascinating for me; especially selecting the components to build one from start
- Engineering just seemed the right choice for me even if I wasn't very good with maths
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Please update the markdown 🤗
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My first real programming course was "Programación I" or "Programming 101", which was taught using C#. | ||
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> I failed. |
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The markdown syntax for >
is used to quote something. Please remove it, since this isn't a quote.
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I wouldn’t use it as part of the same voice you use it for the rest of the text. Quotations should be used to denote content that is coming from another source, to denote them to be as they were when observed. This reminds me of these cases where people use quotation marks on the air to put emphasis or even to denote irony.
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For highlighting we have bold and italic, that should be sufficient.
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Even though we were developing really basic CLI applications, I had a hard time grasping all these new concepts. (Fun enough: I did grasp the `arrays start at 0` concept from start) | ||
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[arrays_start_at_one](./images/arrays_start_at_one.jpg) |
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Please upload the pictures into a img
folder relative to this document.
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[arrays_start_at_one](./images/arrays_start_at_one.jpg) | ||
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But I thought it was normal to fail on your first-ever programming course if you had no prior programming experience. Few months later, I had to take three (3) new programming-related courses: "Design tools" (Basic HTML/CSS along with PHP), "Programming II" (C# with Windows Forms) and "Databases" (Modeling, normalization, SQL, relationships, MySQL/SQL Server) |
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No need to put the number three in parenthesis here.
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We also were taught how to use Dreamweaver —so I had to deal with, not only CSS issues, but also had to fight any issues that came up when installing DW and don't get me started on the hell that was installing WAMP. | ||
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> Years later I realized that most of my issues when I started college were born because of the tools my teachers taught me to get me into programming. |
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Same issue with the incorrect use of the quotation syntax.
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See here
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I wasn't too happy about it but I needed the internship —plus, I could work from home. | ||
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> What I thought was going to be a terrible experience, happen to became a turning point in my career as a developer |
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Same feedback about the quotation syntax.
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See here
Just commited my changes, @sadasant. I'm keeping the quotation syntax as bold and italics doesn't feel right with what I want to express. Also, we need some extra formatting for this one —I'd like to center the multimedia files and keep the source link just right below them, any ideas? |
@aitbw looks better! I’ll ask others to see it as we get more people involved. About the styling, that’s the thing about markdown! It’s very limited, but that’s alright. Let’s see it as a challenge instead of a limitation 🌞 |
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# Dr. Strangelove or: How I handled my stubbornness to become a web developer | |||
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Becoming a developer can be a pretty overwhelming task these days, especially if you delve into the [JavaScript](https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2016-d3a717dd577f) land, where _the new kid on the block_ can be thrown into obscurity in a matter of days. |
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I think "delve into the Javascript land" sounds better as "delve into Javascript land". The "the" in that position sounds more like spanish than english. Spanish never omits "el" o "la", whereas english often omits "the" from a lot of places.
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1. My dad pushed me into the IT world from a very early age | ||
2. I used to be an avid gamer, so PCs were fascinating for me; especially selecting the components to build one from scratch | ||
3. Engineering just seemed the right choice for me if I wasn't good with maths |
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I realize that code and software development isn't math most of the time and that one can go a long way without using a formula, but the phrase "Engineering just seemed the right choice for me if I wasn't good with maths" seems weird to me. That's a thing that can only be said about coding, because in every other profession engineering means applied mathematics and their respective difficult academic courses that weed out people that aren't good at math.
I don't know if all this thinking is necessary, but I think you have to keep in mind that someone might have thoughts like this one as he/she reads this line. Finally, usually "mathematics" is shortened as "math" in singular, despite being plural in the long form.
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So off I went with Ruby, Sinatra, Git and Ubuntu to develop my thesis. | ||
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I know what you must be thinking right now: Why didn't you picked up Ruby on Rails? |
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It would be "Why didn't you pick up Ruby on Rails?"
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I know what you must be thinking right now: Why didn't you picked up Ruby on Rails? | ||
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Honestly, I didn't researched a lot back then and Sinatra seemed pretty cool but it's worth noting that I modeled a lot of my application to be Rails-esque, so I managed to grasp **a lot** of Rails magic unconsciously. Controllers, routing, I18n, layouts, asset management, authentication, authorization, you name it —I had to implement most of this stuff from scratch, which one hell of a exercise (not in futility, of course); I look back at it and I'm glad to say I recognize most of the mistakes, something fundamental in order to know you've actually grown up as a developer, but I also loved what I did the way I did it, which was the main objective. |
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Honestly, I didn't research a lot
Thank you @jobliz ! |
Thanks a lot, @jobliz ❤️ |
I just uploaded it as I received it. I'll follow up with a review.