#front-end

I was tinkering around with the inspect tool on the Welcome Home website and noticed that almost all of the images there are contained within this tag on top of the regular <img> one. I've never seen this tag before, so I looked it up on Google but could not find anything on it.

Hello, I’m Ravyn (like raven). I’m 28. Currently, I’m pursuing a career in full-stack web development. I have zero prior experience with back-end languages and no college education. I have yet to decide if I want a degree in Computer Information Systems/ Computer Science, or continue learning on my own via online resources & taking individual classes at a local community college.

I decided to blog about my journey into tech to track my progress and hopefully inspire and educate others along the way. There is an over-abundance of misleading resources claiming that their classes, tutorials, bootcamps, and books are all for “beginners”, which are all coming from already-established people in tech that have fell out of touch with being able to effectively communicate coding jargon to those that have never seen print(”Hello World!”) in their life.

This blog will document what I learn as a completely new and inexperienced student in tech, how I’m learning and retaining the material, my processes, my failed attempts, and my little victories.

Now, some backstory:

I was forced to drop out of college in 2013 due to struggles with housing. My dream at the time was to do my first 2 years at community college, and then pursue graphic design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Without getting into too much detail about my personal life, pursuing higher education at the time was no longer an option due to working full-time as a waitress and trying to survive. Nearly a decade later, I realized sadly that nothing had changed about my life. I moved around a lot, and I was still struggling with money and living hand-to-mouth. I decided that I was fed up, and since I spent a lot of time in front of my laptop anyway (and enjoyed it), web development seemed like the best career option to commit to.

My story is unfortunately common amongst millions of other people that could also not pursue a college education due to circumstances that were (and still may be) out of their control. Silver spoons in life are rare. The rest of us just work with what we got.

Web design and front-end

Branding: Aleks Phoenix

Diseño web y front-end: Samanta CoCo

Fotografía: Fernanda Caballero

Bocetos arquitectónicos: Jaime Castiello