Today, I am grateful for having gotten myself to complete some pending work done and have the motivation to continue with my professional growth in tech.
I am now in the process of refamiliarizing myself with git and working with local and remote repo's.
Today, I am grateful for having the motivation to continue with the pursuit curriculum and exposing myself to new technologies and concepts. I aim to understand and implement the tools I'm presented with to broaden my skillset and to sharpen my problem-solving abilities.
I have created a branch for my latest journal entry and will review this commit on github
Today, I worked on root cause analysis exercises where I researched and practiced at identifying the possible root causes of problems people and industries face to propose IT solutions to. I am grateful for putting the effort in to building my ability to identify, analyze and prioritize solutions. I hope to continue to broaden my technical skillset to be able to apply this to real world applications.
Today, I worked on steps to identify a problem statement, noting what makes a SMART problem, then comparing multiple proposed solutions to address it to one another in an impact vs effort diagram. By identifying a solution that makes a high impact with low effort to users, it helped narrowed down options to build an application from. I then moved on to identifying and creating an effective value proposition. I asked myself the following: who the application is for, what it does, why it matters and how is it different from what is already available. Answering these questions helped in knowing the difference between a strong and weak value proposition is. By taking to build a strong value proposition, it allows for a brief and clear description of an application to users and investors.
Overall, I am grateful for the content in todays lesson at pursuit to push me into thinking critically about design and intent on projects even before starting the technical implementation.
Today, I worked on creating a live web application for a career tool assistant for young adults. The repo was created and a basic web form has been created to simulate user input for proof of concept for the app. It required a lot of research into using supabase as a backend. I am grateful for the opportunity to learn how to use this new tool and to be able to apply it to a project. I hope to continue to make strides in the feautures for the app.
Today, we focused on noticing patterns in our daily routines and identifying areas of automation to save on time and energy. We are to build a project that focuses on one workflow we ourselves doing regularly and I chose to do a workout routine tracker. I am grateful to have the program push me into thinking about areas of life that can be aided with the automation and aim to test my technical ability in creating a tool for it.
Today, we researched into what package managers are and what they can offer developers with their build projects. I am grateful to have had this opportunity to learn about this feature in builds and to really understand what benefits are gained in using them. From their ability to manage and update dependencies to providing a level of security in the packages used, the time spent diving into this topic was well spent. It provides further context on how and why professionals in the field work with these tools.