My Developer Journey
A week by week progress report of projects, learning and milestones.
Foundation & Planning
Revisited DSA fundamentals, focusing on arrays, and planned the start of my web development journey.
Diving into Web Dev
Started web development with HTML basics and attended an insightful GitHub basics session.
Building with CSS
Leveled up CSS skills, practiced string questions, and built a portfolio from scratch in a live session.
First Mini-Project
Maintained my coding streak and completed a tourist guide project for Pachmarhi using HTML & CSS.
Responsive Design
Finished an HTML & CSS course and built a responsive Gaming Chair website to apply the concepts.
Balancing Academics
Struggled with 2D arrays while juggling new college subjects, and started a restaurant website project.
JavaScript Journey Begins
Enhanced the restaurant project with a cart feature and begin learning the fundamentals of JavaScript.
First JS Project
Learned JavaScript basics and applied them by building a functional Tic-Tac-Toe game.
API Integration
Built Climate-Connect, a weather application that integrates with external APIs to fetch and display data.
LeetCode Milestone
Challenged by LinkedList problems while working on a Password Generator frontend and earned the 50-day streak badge.
Project Completion
Overcame challenges with LinkedList sorting and successfully completed the PassCode Password Generator website.
Community Building
Inspired classmates to start a collaborative DSA learning group and started work on a college minor project.
Internship Completion
Successfully completed a 45-day internship at Indore Municipal Corporation and made major progress on a college project.
Google Arcade Swags
A slower week focused on midterm prep, highlighted by receiving Premium Milestone Swags from Google Arcade 2024.
Helping Classmates
Created a public repo for an Android Studio assignment to help others after several days of coding grind.
Project Submission Grind
A stressful week focused on wrapping up semester projects and reports for submission before exams.
End-Semester Exams
Took a break from updates to focus entirely on preparations for end-semester written exams.
Viva Sessions
Completed all written exams and shifted focus to preparing for and completing the remaining viva sessions.
Post-Exams & Reboot
Finished all academic responsibilities and began exploring in-house internship opportunities for the summer.
Selected for Internship
Selected for the In-house Summer Internship at IIPS after successfully clearing two interview rounds (DSA & HR).
Graduation & Project Pivot
Completed my B.C.A. and pivoted the internship project, deciding to rebuild it from scratch with modern tech.
Intense Internship Phase
Deep in the development phase of the internship project, working under pressure with tight deadlines.
Red Hat Certification
Completed the Red Hat System Administration I (RH124) course while navigating project breakthroughs and challenges.
Internship Peak & Burnout
Implemented pivotal features but faced architectural challenges, leading to a much-needed break from the grind.
Reflection & Realignment
A week of deep reflection and personal lessons, leading to a renewed focus on personal and professional values.
New Project: Trip-Budget
Launched Trip-Budget, a real-time expense management app for group travel, born from a personal pain point.
Prompt Engineering Course
Completed a Prompt Engineering course, gaining new perspectives on AI tools, and resolved a tricky bug in the internship project.
Hackathon & New Beginnings
Participated in a 6-hour hackathon and officially started my Postgrad (MCA) journey, marking the end of summer break.
LeetCode Century
Explored Docker and Arch Linux while hitting the 100-day problem-solving mark on LeetCode.
DSA Website Nears Completion
Worked steadily on my personal DSA website and focused on core college subjects like Networks and Architecture.
DSA Website Deployed
Completed and deployed my personal DSA website, designed for mobile-friendly revision of solutions.
Exploring AWS
Made a steady start with Amazon Web Services, exploring its core services and functionalities.
Midterm Preparations
Paused other projects to focus entirely on studying and preparing for the upcoming mid-semester tests.
DC-Hackathon Organizer
As part of the organizing committee, helped host a successful 8-hour hackathon for M.Tech and MCA students.
Data Analytics Workshop
Built a Store-Sales Dashboard in Power BI during a workshop and started a terminal-based Snake game project.
Power BI Project
Built a comprehensive Fitness Dashboard project using Power BI to solidify newly acquired data visualization skills.
Hackathon Prep
Regrouped with friends to prepare a presentation and prototype for an upcoming internal SIH hackathon.
SIH Hackathon Grind
Participated in an intense SIH hackathon, pushing through sleepless nights and constant debugging with the team.
Float-Chat AI
Developed Float-Chat AI, a platform to make oceanographic data accessible via a RAG system and conversational UI.
Android Development Focus
Focused on developing the Android application for the SIH project, overcoming challenges in development and deployment.
Legacy Project Revamp
Revamped and published an old Hospital Management System project from my 2nd semester, reflecting on my journey's start.
Week 42
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At-Mark App & Notifications
Worked on At-Mark, my offline-first attendance tracking app: optimized the code, fixed report generation, shipped OTA updates, and implemented notifications with FCM and Cloudflare Workers, while starting the planning phase of a freelance project.
At-Mark on the Play Store
Submitted At-Mark to the Play Store for early access (now in closed testing) while pushing freelance work toward production and feeling the deadline pressure.
At-Mark v1.3.0 & Feedback
Incorporated feedback from friends and colleagues into At-Mark v1.3.0 and pushed it to closed testing on the Play Store; freelance work is on hold pending team discussions while placement prep continues.