A bit about meeee....

Hello, I'm Curtis, a passionate web developer on a mission to create captivating digital experiences.
My coding journey began in August 2018, and since then, my dedication and self-motivation have driven me to pursue coding as my lifelong career choice. Having amassed valuable insights and skills through diverse roles in my career, I am now ready to embark on a new venture and establish myself as a sought-after freelance web developer. I am also open to contract work with a minimum term of 12 months should the right opportunity come.

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How I fell in love with coding?

After deciding to follow the "traditional" Front End Developer route, I started off with learning HTML5 then moving onto CSS, I felt suprisingly happy with my understanding of these languages, and how well I was picking them up..
When I began learning Javascript, I started to realise how putting together a basic program worked similar to in some ways to how the components of a motor vehicle engine come together to form a whole.
This goes hand in hand my interest in engines and how they work.
As I moved on to more complex coding projects, the rush of seeing my creations come alive and squashing those pesky bugs was feeling great. Plus, it sparked my creative side big time, making me a logical ninja in everyday life!

Various tech devices such as a Laptop, keyboard, a computer mouse, headphones, and a book about learning to code

Other Hobbies

I love playing guitar, I own both electric and Acoustic guitars, stick a song book in front of me and I can play a good few songs.
My main influnces are:
Jimi Hendrix, Led Zepplin, Nirvana. The playing style that comes most natural to me is fingerpicking, a good example of this is the Led Zeppelin song - Babe Im Gonna Leave You.

A brightly lit room containing an electric guitar, Fender Guitar amp, and 2 unopenned packs of tennis balls

Old Skool Gaming

I'm really into old skool gaming, I have a huge love for games from around the late 90's early 2000's era. I have a modern games console, an Xbox One S which I acquired for a nice price in the 2018 black friday sales. What is my favourite console of all time?? Hmmm, I'd say the Nintendo 64 with the Sega Dreamcast being a close 2nd place.🙂

A Sega Dreamcast control pad with VMU memory card attached

He hates films!?!

Truth be told i'm a big fan, my fave genres being Sci Fi, Action, Psychological thrillers, Comedy, Anime, Adventure & Horror.

The famous Hollywood Sign located on Mount Lee in California USA

My Coding Influences and Inspirations

Udemy

I owe the majority of my knowledge at this point to teachers on the Udemy platform, most notably Colt Steele and Jonas Schmedtman

Pluralsight

Helped me a lot during my early stages of learning code, I really loved their style of teaching CSS and found it easiest learning about the cascade and other CSS priciples.

SyntaxFM Podcast

I mainly listened to this great podcast normally on my commute to work and sometimes while coding. A great way to stay update with current news, and best coding practices, definitely some of the "tastiest treats" available in podcast world.

CodePen.io

I have used Codepen mainly to practice code subjects I've learnt while things are fresh in my mind. Now im slowy transitioning over to uploading some of my early coding projects and refactoring them.

Base CS

Excellent quirky and funny, I listen to an episode of this lighthearted computer science podcast most mornings on the way to work

Code Newbie Podcast

I've found code newbie too be very inspirational, and at times when I've felt a bit down or frustrated about my coding progress, many of the stories featured on this podcast have pulled me back on track and got me focused again.

JS Party

JS Party is much the same as Syntax podcast, super informative, though with more guests on the show, you get more varied opinions on a given topical.