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The first few weeks were tough, I rembember being asked to read the entire You Don't Know JS book with the implied threat of losing my job. FreeCodeCamp did give me the basic knowledge, but now I needed to learn about the foundations of the language I would be using for the next years. If you are a self taught developer, I totally recomend you read through this and other books that go in depth into the language features.
Started working on Kuro a Microsoft To-Do desktop client for linux
Started learning Typescript
Started learning React
So I continued learning JavaScript and eventually jQuery , did a Pomodoro Timer and a Simon Game on CodePen and my final project was making my own GitHub Profile page. I got my certificate for the Front End Development Program on January 16th, 2017 and I would quit my job soon after. With this certificate I started sending CV's and applying for every Junior Developer role.
In a few weeks I had stopped playing Football Manager on my computer and managed to do some lessons while taking calls. I felt the HTML and CSS modules were really easy. My first project was a simple Bob Dylan tribute page using only HTML, Bootstrap and CSS. I started to feel some difficulty when I started with the JavaScript lessons.
And so, April 20, 2017, was my first day at Frames. My job would be to make charts using the D3 library (which was also a part of the Free Code Camp curriculum) and vanilla Javascript. The company was quite small, there was a journalist who would use a backoffice to input data on chart templates, a senior developer to create and maintain the backoffice functionality and me, who would create and maintain the chart templates. Regarding the salary, I accepted the fact that I wouldn't be as productive as someone that graduated from a bootcamp or college so I was happy to take the 700 euro per month pay check.