After graduating Flatiron School, I’ve been trying to find more things to study to extend my skills. There are so many languages and framworks that people are using to develop web applications. I had to choose which one I’m going to start with. One day, I was at the restaurant with my husband and looked around. Most of people who are in the restaurant are holding a fork in one hand and holding a phone in other hand. People can’t leave their phone even while they are eating! And hence, there comes the REACT Native Development in the picture! Since I loved learning React and still there’s more to learn about it, I decided to move my next step of learning field to React Native.
I was born in Korea in the early 1980s. I don’t have many memories from the 1980s, but I do remember that the 1988 Seoul Olympics were a big deal. After the Olympics, Korea started developing very fast. As a child, our family was financially secure because my dad owned his own business. I remember we had a big screen tv that was fat and heavy. I had a giant phone called a “city phone”(early mobile device that could make calls like a cellphone but could receive only small text messages as a beeper does.) in the late 1990s when I was in high school. Most people were still using pagers so students would line up in front of the public phone to listen to their voice mail during their breaks and then had to run back to class when the bell went off. I was lucky to have a city phone, so I did not have to deal with waiting in lines or carrying coins. That was my first true exposure to the benefits of technology.
Four weeks into my React/Redux project and it’s finally done! It felt a lot longer like every other project. They always start as a struggle that later ends with me gaining a lot of useful knowledge and experience.
I always was interested in art and design. I wanted to go to a High School that focused on Art & Design growing up in Korea, but my dad was really old fashioned and was not open to me working in that industry. So my dream to study art was placed on hold, but I never lost my passion. My husband has always been supportive so researched into online web design schools.
I finally moved another step closer to becoming a programmer. Throughout my time at Flatiron, I’d enter every project as if it was the most difficult, only to find out the next project would be even harder. However, this javascript project has definitely been the most challenging. Even midway through the project I was still confused and could not understand why I would need certain functions or what some classes do. Hopefully as I go through the process of what I did to complete this application it will better assist with my own understanding javascript because I am having to explain it all to you through my blog entry.