About

I studied marketing, and to pay my own way I worked as a remote interpreter at the same time. While I was finishing the degree, I started to doubt that this was what I wanted to do for a living.

Computers and programming had always interested me, but I thought it was too hard and never tried. A family member who studied computer science told me I could learn it on my own and pointed me to freeCodeCamp. I started with small steps.

They saw that I was interested and suggested an online bootcamp. It was 2021, the pandemic had me at home and I had the time, so I signed up. The more I learned about how software is built, the more it interested me, and I am still learning it today.

The final project of my full-stack course at Codecademy was an e-commerce site, impulso-ecommerce. It was the first time I made a backend and a frontend work together in one project. It cost me a lot of time, a few tears and a lot of effort, and I got it working.

Today it looks simple to me, but back then it was a real challenge, and finishing it is when I knew I liked this. The repository has been updated since, and its early commits show what it started as.

impulso-ecommerce on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

I always test. It is tedious, and it is necessary. When something fails, I write the failure down and keep testing until it passes. That habit is why every claim on my projects links to the test behind it. On the front end, I also try to keep my wireframes from looking generic.

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