My independent Command Line Interface project, the culminating project for the first section of Software Engineering bootcamp, presented challenges regarding both direction and scope. Initially, I designed a more ambitious project than fit the logistic parameters allotted, but successfully reframed my project to meet my goals. I gained insight about balancing project scope with resources available, and learned to rely on and work with others to proofread code and suggest improvements and changes to logic.
I spend a lot of time developing my programming chops before being accepted to FlatIron. I mostly completed the bootcamp prep course and took several additional online classes to ensure I was ready.
Starting a new career requires playing to your strengths and to your goals; software development allows me to engage with my interest in problem solving and communications while helping me to grow both personally and professionally. Career assessments going back as far as high school have suggested that software engineering is the place for me, but at the time my interests too me elsewhere. I began my career in communications, but consistently wanted more opportunities to problem solve individually and as part of a team. I started teaching myself programming in my free time, and knew that I had found what I was looking for - the opportunity to apply my creativity and critical thinking to a task that is measurable and with results that are concrete.