We Will Code

Jose Moreno from Newman Ca.

Since I began dedicating a full-time schedule to learning different programming skills (repeating to myself like a madman “I will code” and “we will code” throughout my every day). I have now deployed my first app on Heroku(We Will Code). It is a simple app that utilizes Youtube’s API to template my playlists into courses. The domain ‘wewillcode.com’ redirects to my Heroku app. The purpose of my app is to aid those who are struggling with web development. Sometimes all that is needed is someone else’s point of view to help make something click. My hope is that my app will make more people say...

WE WILL CODE.

So the point of this post is simply to encourage those reading who are starting off or have been doing it for a few months and wondering if any of the stuff you are learning will ever start connecting… it will!!!!

Small achievements add up, and when those achievements are combined you will begin to see the mystery puzzle come together. Since my introduction into the world of web development(HTML, CSS, and Javascript), I have also learned how to connect to a database(PSQL) as well as running my app on a server. A combination of writing the front-end code as well as the back-end has truly helped me see the full picture of what constitutes a full-stack app.

My currently deployed app uses EJS templating to display the proper information from my Youtube channel. I loop through all my channel information and grab the info I need like playlist titles and descriptions as well as video titles and description, along with their thumbnails. Once I have the data, I simply write a template that allows me to display all the info I want. Understanding API’s and templating is groundbreaking for me and valuable because of the limitless combination of data and ideas that one can achieve using API’s. I use to write my website pages one at a time, but with templating, I can have thousands of videos on youtube and using my templates I can create a page for every video instantly.

Every day I wake up excited to learn more. This is the mentality that will take you far and also will facilitate in learning, but you must ask yourself if you are truly wanting to do this, knowing it will be one of the most difficult yet most rewarding achievements you will pursue. While you ask yourself that, I will validate my own question by saying Jose Moreno truly wants this, regardless of how difficult it will be. He will achieve his goals and prove wrong any who ever doubted him.

I hope you too will take this questions and validate it within yourself their where you are right now, though it will be difficult, it will also be so very worth it.

-Jose Moreno