I was first exposed to "programming" when I was a sophmore in high school and took a fundamentals of web design class. I put "programming" in quotes because the first languages I learned were the markup language, HTML, as well as CSS. Even though they were quite simple to learn, I fell in love! I wanted to study more and I defintly wanted to take the advaced web design course. My web design teacher called me a perfectionist because my websites always looked exactly like the examples that we were supposed to follow. I think what made me fall in love with HTML was that HTML, Notepad++, and Adobe DreamWeaver were the first tools that allowed me to make my own web pages. At that point I wanted to be a web designer. This is when I started to understand that I like to make and design things. I want to be able to see that I created something and that I am able to make something that others can see, use, as well as understand. I like to see things from the user's perspective and try to make webpages simple for users to use, as well as pleasing to look at.
Growing up, I learned that I wanted to be a computer programmer or a software engineer. I took an AP computer science class when i was junior in high school. This is when I started to pick up and like Java. I am glad I took that class because I already knew pretty much everything going into my CS 1301 class during the fall of my freshman year of college. Since then, I have learned about C++ and C. I also learned how to write queries in Oracle SQL and Microsoft SQL Server. I have used Visual Studio 2017 to program in C++ and C.
I had an IT/Software Engineering internship during the summer of 2019. During my internship, I learned and gained exposure to new programming languages, code libraries, frameworks and learned that there is a lot more that goes into making a website for a Fortune 500 company. I wrote code and made updates to internal web applications. The programming languages, code libraries and component libraries that I used were JavaScript, jQuery, C# and Bootstrap. I also pushed code to Azure DevOps.
During my senior year of college, I took two programming courses where I learned Python. At the time of writing this, I am working on a project for my capstone course that also uses SQLite, CRUD and object-oriented Python code with a GUI.
I call myself an Android enthusiast. I love the Android operating system. I have gone through some tutorials about how to make Android applications using Android Studio. I like making Android apps because I love the operating system, and the main programming language that Android apps are programmed in is Java. The fact that Android apps are mainly made in Java makes the process much simpiler since I already have an intermediate level knowldedge of Java. I also keep up with the newest Android phones, software updates, as well as updates that are important to Andorid developers.
As the title of my website says, I am a software engineer. I love web development, especially on the front-end side. Day to day, I am a .NET developer. At night, I improve my front-end web development skills when I can. I want to do work that I can be able to see that I physically ( or I guess really digitally) created something and that makes an impact. The impact does not have to be on the entire world, but if my work can make an impact or improve or make one person's life easier, than I will be happy. I want to learn more about programming and learn more programming languages, while also learning more about the programming languages that I already know.