17-05-2018
Lessons from my first developer interview
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Name: Jan Chen
Coding for: 18 months
Goal: Work as a front end developer
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Jan Chen
London
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About me
Why I learnt to code
Where I want to go
I’m Jan, 29 years old, from London. After a fun but less than fruitful humanities degree,
I’ve spent the last 8 years drifting through a series of jobs with titles like ‘Project Officer’, ‘Account Executive’, and ‘Senior Manager’ -
despite never making it to a middle-rung salary. I live with my girlfriend and young son in one of the less
fashionable parts of London, and I wake up each morning to a coffee and an hour of coding practice before work. Every spare minute I get
I'm writing code, because I know that's the only way I'm going to get where I want to be.
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Unsplash Clone
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Skills
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Back End
Design
Experience
Group project: Build an Unsplash clone.
01-04-2018 - 14-05-2018
I worked along with 3 other new developers on a group project to build a clone of the popular photo sharing website Unsplash. I worked on the front end of the site, building out the UI in HTML and Sass, and working with another developer on using Vue.js as the front end framework.
Working on a large scale project with other developers was very different from anything I'd done before, and the experience really developed my skills - especially communication. I learned the value of Git, and gained an insight into the requirements of working in a real development team.
One week internship at Companify
02-02-2018 - 28-02-2018
I managed to secure a week long placement at London startup, Companify, which provides a one-size-fits-all, B2B SaaS product that solves every operational problem you can think of.
During the week I spent a lot of time shadowing one of the senior developers, and worked on some smaller pieces such as some new UI components they were developing. It was a fantastic experience to see the day to day workings of a professional development team, and it confirmed for me that that is the environment I want to work in.
Achievements / Qualifications
Vue JS 2: From Beginner to Professional
17-02-2018
This Udemy course is provides a thorough overview of using Vue.js in a modern web app. It covers the theory behind Vue, how to build advanced SPAs, how to manage state using Vuex, and how to use tools such as webpack.
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FCC: Front End Developer Certificate
09-01-2018
Free Code Camp has become a staple resource for anyone wanting to learn Javascript, and I am proud to say that I completed the Front End Certificate at the beginning of this year. The excercises, challenges and projects were perfect for practising everything I had been learning, and the program really cemented my JS skills.
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Treehouse: Full Stack Javascript Track
12-12-2017
Over the last two months of 2017, I completed the Full Stack Javascript Track on Treehouse, which takes you through from the very basic of Javscript - loops, arrays etc. - to more advanced concepts and using Javascript on the server. It gave me a great overview of the modern JavaScript environment, and was a good base on which to learn Vue.js.
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Lessons from my first developer interview.
15-04-2018
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Step by step: How we built a clone of Unsplash.
09-03-2018
Medium
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How learning to code will set you free.
05-02-2018
Medium
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17-04-2018
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21-03-2018
London
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