#gitwank

So I realised I never did an end-of-course post, and I graduated over 2 weeks ago now.

*party popper, short fanfare*

I'm simultaneously really relieved and glad it's over, but also will definitely miss being at Makers regularly.  I've picked up (and retained) more than I had ever hoped, which can only be a good thing.  Unfortunately, in continuing to code (especially re-doing some of the tests), I still have moments like this:

which, y'know, isn't the best coding practise in the world.  But at other times, I find myself being able to write things far quicker and better than I had done before, and it's surprising and gratifying.

Now just on the scary job-hunt.  I had planned to take a few weeks to make sure all my code was fabulous first, but I really can't afford that time now.  I NEED MONEY GODDAMMIT.  Mostly because that will mean I can move out of living with my mother, bless her.  We really get on so much better when we're not in the same county.  So far I've had a lot of people approach me about interviews, but any time I've applied for something that goes via recruiters I don't get an interview because of course my background isn't in computer science, and they have to sift the applicants somehow.  It's very frustrating.

I also definitely need to get stuck into some angular.js and some more javascript, as those crop up most in front-end work.  Also probably should learn at least what C# looks like, and how to do some basic stuff in it.