Friday June 3rd, 2022 - 09:13:31 (E.S.T.) - 11th Blog entry

React Tutorials, Linux Setup Hurdles, and Career Momentum

Whoa it's been almost 2 months since I posted an entry in here. I've been fairly active according to my GitHUb. So, let's see, since my last push here on this site I've worked on a tutorial for building a tic-tac-toe game in React, a take home assessment for Oracle building a GUI app in Java Swing, some PHP coding around JSON files, experimenting with Jupyter notebook and learning about all the wonderful features of NumPy.

Guess I'll start with React. I'm following a few different tutorials that I've found online. It seems like everywhere I look when applying to jobs has some sort of React involved in it. So I figured why not, let's get some exposure to it. I do have a goal in mind to eventually change this page over into React. It probably doesn't make much sense to do that but for learning purposes, that's why I'd be doing it. I have probably only spent about 4 hours total from getting the stuff required to get it running installed to having a working app. Setup and configuration seemed ok. I ran into some issues installing node.js on my system but a few quick google searches I was able to overcome all of the minor issues. Being on linux certainly is a little more challenging when installing software compared to Windows. You don't just double click an .exe file, choose a path and voila! Successful install of said application. No, it's definitely a little more complicated than that. I find myself struggling with path stuff in linux. I'm about 15 months into using Linux full time as my primary OS, and while I'd never go back to Windows, I still find myself having to researching how to do things quite a bit. That was the whole point actually in making the switch - to force myself to learn how to navigate linux - and I'm still way behind the curve. But,