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Hello and welcome! My name is Mack. This profile will serve as a diary of my journey into the coding world.
To start this journey, I enrolled and completed a coding bootcamp through Coding Dojo learning Python, Java, and MERN. The assignments I've completed in regards to the bootcamp are a little further in, feel free to check them out.
Lots of coding bootcamps out there, if you'd like to know more about the one I attended you can check out more details on their website.
- My personality type is INTJ (Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Judging traits)
- I'm goal oriented, and driven by understanding the "why" behind anything
- As someone who is competitive, I enjoy challenges and the struggle they provide
- I am a huge fantasy nerd, and a self-proclaimed history buff
| Title | Author | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The Dunwich Horror | H.P. Lovecraft | ✔️ |
| The Call of Cthulu | H.P. Lovecraft | ✔️ |
| Can't Hurt Me | David Goggins | ✔️ |
| With the Old Breed | E. B. Sledge | ▫️▫️▫️ |
| Start with Why | Simon Sinek | ✔️ |
| At Your Best | Carey Nieuwhof | ✔️ |
| The Joyful Wisdom | Friedrich Nietzsche | ▫️▫️▫️ |
| Clean Code | Robert C. Martin | ▫️▫️▫️ |
| Warhammer - The Horus Heresy Series | Various Authors | Book 5: Fulgrim |
| Grey Knights: Blade of Purity | David Annandale | ✔️ |
While attending Coding Dojo's coding bootcamp, we were encouraged to undertake some personal projects. You're more than welcome to check out my Projects repo. If unsure, let me suggest:
(Python) Offline Auction House (Repo) - this was my passion project. It is an application that consumes Blizzard's Auction house API and returns results based off of a users query. This lets me (and other users) explore, interact, and enjoy the world more - instead of sitting infront of the auction house manually inputting data into spreadsheets! This full-stack application is deployed with Vercel using a PlanetScale cloud SQL db.
TL;DR - I ramble about nerdy stuff, check it out at this URL
(Java) Character Template (Repo) & Web Scraper (Repo) - This was a 2-part project that involved building a web scraper that scraped a Wiki's tables for data to build (and quickly re-build) out a database of spells and abilities. The other half of the application utilizes that database to display spells and abilities with the Spring framework. The idea behind this was to allow for further theorycrafting of potential characters as my friends and I continue playing together.
TL;DR - I can really go on about nerdy stuff. The application is deployed on an AWS EC2 instance, and you can see it here**: http://18.221.143.236.
**Working on a system that will have this remain in the AWS free tier usage while being available 100% of the time. 503 means I took the custom service down temporarily!
(MERN) Webdev Flashcards (Repo) - The purpose of this full application is to to help users brush up on their knowledge of development terms, concepts, and acronyms. This project was developed in collaboration, with hopes to add and allow others to collaborate with us!
This full-stack application is deployed with Vercel and is can be accessed at this URL.
(HTML, CSS, JS) Personal Portfolio (Repo) - I built a personal portfolio from the ground up! I put forth some self-imposed challenges and design principles that I wanted to use in the project, which can be found in the project's repo!
Currently this is deployed via GitHub pages and can be viewed at this URL.
While enrolled in Coding Dojo's coding bootcamp, I earned the coveted "black belt" in each of my stacks - demonstrating a strong understanding and mastery of the technology. To earn a black belt, students would have to implement difficult and advanced features into their projects like M:M relationships, advanced validations, or additional tables with specific interaction requirements. This was on top of creating a fully CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Destroy) application in under 5 hours. Check out the code over in my belt_exams repo, or I've got the TL;DR below:
💸These applications have been taking offline to avoid mounting AWS charges, but reach out if you'd like to see them spun up!
Python: Magazine Subscription App.
Java: Yoga Instructor App.
MERN: Pirate crew builder.
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* Imperium, Chaos, or do you enjoy screaming "WAAAGH"
* What do you think everyone should read at least once
* Horde or Alliance | Classic or Retail (or both!)
* Light or Dark side of the Force
* Favorite historical event
* Best Starter Pokémon
| Name | Date | Message |
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 GreenJ84 |
10/12/2022, 5:33:47 AM | Very Dope README! I shall exploit! |
 jrollman123 |
9/22/2022, 7:28:05 PM | Bronze Age Collapse is best lore |
 coren-frankel |
9/18/2022, 9:12:51 PM | I enjoy screaming "WAAAGH!" |
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