Web Development

I still remember my first time trying web development. I was in fifth grade, and I made some kind of tan-color abomination of a website teaching the basics of HTML and CSS. Afterwards, I made another basic website in my early teens, hosted on the same URL as a minecraft server I played on with my friends. I felt cool telling people I had my own website and showing them what I made. Life went on, and I didn't get a chance to re-visit web development till I was in university.

Once in uni, I found myself making websites for courses, with my first worthwhile one being the Computer Science Student Store, a full-stack LAMP website functioning as a simulated store for computer science students. I designed it to meet assignment criteria and get me a high grade, and I got that A+ I was after, but it's not something I'd consider worth showing off.

Fortunately, This Portfolio gave me a chance to improve some of those skills. I based this portfolio on on the CSStore, cleaned things up a lot, and made the design much more appealing. This was a good chance to work on my front-end design skills, and I was able to really improve my grasp of CSS by spending some time here and there working on and experimenting with the interface.

The next step for my web development journey came in the form of a take-home project I did while interviewing for a software developer internship. I was tasked with designing a Full-Stack Library Website capable of reading books from a database, sorting them by various means, and adding new books to the database. This was much simpler than the previous projects I've done, and only took me a few hours.

Building that library site gave me the urge to fully dive in and make a fully production-qualtiy full-stack website better than anything I've made so far. If I get the time, that's next on my to-do list.