I have decided in addition to algorithm and coding practice. I will also learn 2 additional things: Java/Spring framework and Computer Networking. I did not take the 372 elective because of the horrible reviews but luckily for me there is a free course online. I estimate that 50% of my time will be spent on…

This quarter will be over in 4 weeks and I need to start planning the next phase of my life. When school ends, I will have a lot of free time and I must use that time wisely. After work, I will have roughly 6 hours a day to interview prep and work on my…

Yesterday, I submitted the midpoint progress video and as I reflect on this quarter and my academic journey at OSU. I can only think to myself, Time Flies. In fact this was the main reason why I chose to go back to school in 2019. I knew 3 years would go by in the blink…

One of my biggest failures in self teaching happened in November 2017. I was trying to design an algorithm for a tic tac toe game. From searching google, the recommended result was the mini-max algorithm. After spending several hours reading articles and watching explanations on youtube, I thought I was well prepared to write this…

This week I started building out the front-end for the capstone project. The UI framework our team chose was React. As mentioned in my prior blog posts, before I enrolled in OSU. I had spent thousands of hours self-teaching myself programming and web development. Fortunately for me, React happens to be included in those long…

The year is 2019, I am now going into the 3rd year of my programming hobby/career transition and I haven’t had much luck with job interviews. I’ve built so many side projects (mostly front-end) that I can’t even list all of them on my resume and there was the realization that I don’t care for…

A couple of months after quitting my coding endeavors, the idea of giving up really started to bother me. I felt like a mentally weak loser and it felt like a direct contrast to the character that I had spent years developing. Determined to overcome this horrendous feeling, I started to systematically approach programming in…

The first time I had heard about the career field of software development was back in 2015 when a college friend abruptly quit his job and moved to San Francisco to attend a coding bootcamp. At the time, I was highly skeptical but intrigued to see his outcome and so I communicated with him weekly…