Programming and the Rona

Long weekend of snow and threats of corona virus. So I am stuck programming. Following the instruction of web dev simplified

on youtube I was able to follow along and create a JS calculator. This was a fun weekend project that got my feet wet into JS, CSS and HTML.

Mind you, Iam no stranger to coding, I have a background with Java and even stronger foundation with C#. However, because the industry is

moving to web dev and JS is such a strong skill to have, I have been learning the gears that is vanilla JS. Its an interesting language to say the

least. It has recently turned fun as I was able to connect everything I have been learning in freecodecamp. However, I am not confident yet to start

my own projects. Because I am a visual learner I turned my attention to follow along projects on youtube.

Having done this, my confidence is reaching a new milestone, no coder is worth his salt is he cant troubleshoot, and to say that there were bugs in

this code that I was implementing is really just lying to myself. I pride myself in the fact that I stuck through this lesson. Yes, there were

self inflicted bugs, but I was able to solve them. Interestingly enough, I got to learn more about this beautiful language called JavaScript.

Big props to Web Dev simplified for taking the time to help out noobies like me! Here is a link for reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j59qQ7YWLxw.

Having done this project, lets reflect on what was learned:

-I gained better insights to the approach of creating a HTML,CSS, JS application. Mainly, I was able to hear and see(implementation) of how web devs

see the DOM.

-I also got to see how naming or context best practices and delved deeper into CSS Grid layout.

-Finally, I got to see how JS tied it all up, its hard to admit but I come from a backend background so to see this visually opened up a few neurons

to see the posibilities of wed dev.

The journey to Front-end Started a year ago. I am still learning, however, if anything now I am gaining confidence and steam to continue on this journey,

I am excited to see where it will take me

* Need to fix on calc...whenever I have made a calculation and press another number to do another calculation, the number is added to the

previousOperand screen. Yes one should hit AC to clear but people. Like me are lazy, this is a bug that must be fixed!

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