Finn

I'm from Coffs Harbour

New South Wales, Australia

Right now, I'm taking Bootcamp in Manila, Philippines to learn web development.

I Enjoy

Learning.

Bill Gates reads 50 books a year, Obama praises reading and Elon Musk alegedly read two books a day in his teenage years. If they can do it, I can do it.

In my spare time I'm learning solidity from a possibly pirated Udemy course, and in other moments I listen to podcasts like The Money and The Philosopher's Zone from ABC Radio National.

I Aim To

Understand fullstack developing

Milestone: Finishing the Bootcamp I'm currently enrolled in. It ends with a month internship starting July. Want a switched-on junior dev? Contact me.

Become a Solidity Developer (by Christmas this year)

Milestone: Finishing the Udemy course I'm taking. It's teaching me how to write smart contracts.
Annother milestone: Get a job, building good and useful Ethereum applications.

Learn Deep Learning (from 2019 till I get it)

Big milestone: Work with top people to ensure that artificial intelligence is good by 2030-2050 (hence save the world).

Start a business, at some point.

Starting or joining a business allows me to solve bigger problems: I can compound results by colaborating with like-minded people, and I can build structures that work much better than I do.

Things I've Made

InstaGLAM

This project was created in the process of learning Ruby on Rails. I tried to undestand the whole information flow from a beginner level, and this proved frustrating and unacheivable.
I vowed one day I would.

I did some more work, and enjoyed it becasue the rails started becoming less magic and more sense.

I still aim to understand rails better; I'm reading 'The Rails 5 Way' by Obie Fernandez.

See InstaGLAM here

This Website

My first ever css project was a design portfolio and can be found here. I had little knowlege of CSS when starting it and so trying to build was unpleasant.

So I made this website instead.
I was challenged learning bootstrap along the way however I found it fulfilling becasue it eventually ended up with the website you're on right now.

What I learned in this project:
1. Learn enough to build before you build.
2. Asking for help is good.
3. Taking breaks is good.

View this site's Github

Co-space

Is currently in progess. It is a co-working space manager, focusing on user experience.

I wanted to build it to solve the pain-points associated with running the co-working space my course is currently being held at.

See it here

My Code Snippets

A particular exersize I found enjoyable was creating a robot simulator. We were given a set of coordinates, and a set of instructions ( left right, move, etc.) and had to move the robot to its expected destination.
I was proud of my use of classes and case statments in this exersize.

Check out the source code here

I have done plenty of other ruby exersizes and mini-projects. You can veiw them in my Github

So far I have used HTML and CSS to build this website. I am building a co-working space web-app and will be applying HTML and CSS to that.

Its a longer-term project where alot of my effort will be directed, checkout its Github Repo

I have no learned some Javascript in my spare time, I will be learning it through the Bootcamp officially in June.

Check out my github instead

The boocamp will teach basic React in June, however, I self-taught reactJS and built a youtube clone using ReactJS as a side project.

Check it out

I have some small experience using node through small projects, however the bootcamp will teach it in August.