It’s week 10 of 12 at Code Louisville, and I think I’m going to make it through this thing! I’ve officially completed the entire Code Louisville Front End Web Development Track on Treehouse. Treehouse advised me of my completion, and I promptly tweeted it out to the world!
I earned my first badge on Treehouse on September 22, 2016, and I completed the full Code Louisville Front End web Development Track on March 16, 2017. Wow, I’ve been doing this for about 6 months now! Time flies when you’re having fun and learning how to code!
There are still two weeks left of Code Louisville classes. I’ve begun Angular Basics which is an optional course, and I am spending the majority of my time coding my individual project for Code Louisville which must be turned in by March 31st.
This week I attended the JS Lou Meetup where they had a panel discussion about developer jobs in Louisville. It was packed! Standing room only!
The meetup was a JavaScript Developer AMA (Ask me anything) / Panel discussion and it’s official title was, “Web developer careers in our city; where we have been and where we are headed?” It was held March 15th 2017, from 7pm – 10pm at Warp Zone in Louisville.
I think the huge turn out was because a lot of people from Code Louisville, as well as others that have pursued different avenues to learn coding, are at a point where they are ready to search for a position to utilize their new coding skills. The panelists were Leigh Prince, Junior Web Developer at Interapt, Craig Burton, Senior JavaScript Engineer at PlatformQ, Aaron Johnson, Owner – Top Shelf Robot, and Ben Wiley, Software Engineer at Autodesk. They did an incredible job. You can watch the entire video below.
I’m also currently working on a couple of side projects. One is a WordPress website project working with another developer from Code Louisville. The second is a group that sprung up as a result of Aaron Johnson’s suggestion at the JS Lou panel to “create groups of 4 to 6 and work together on a project.” I think Aaron suggested this at least five or six times, so it kind of stuck. Thanks Aaron, we heard you!
Our new small group of coders are trying to decide on a project. It will probably be for a non-profit group that has reached out to Brian Luerman at Code Louisville for developers. This seems like a win-win. We get to put our new skills to work, we get to practice working with other developers on a real-world project, and a non-profit gets a free web development project completed.
That’s it for Code Louisville this week. See you all next week!
