Some examples of my work

Excel and Visual Basic for Applications

My programming journey started while working for BT, where I gained extensive experience building reports and dashboards with Excel, Macros, Forms and automating tasks with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), My first deep dive into a programming language.

WEB DEVELOPMENT

This lead to my pursing software development in the form of sponsored degree study, where I was introduced to the concept of building websites using HTML, XTML, XHTML, XML and CSS, and gained familiarity with some of the builders and tools used, such as FrontPage, Dreamweaver, Kompozer and NVU.

Komposer

NVU

More recently I have been using WordPress, with some good and bad experience, and working on building webapps using Django. I found Django more complex at the start, having to learn the MVC architecture and how python code links up with the view, but learnt a lot and very rewarding.

WordPress

Django

JAVA

During my degree I focused on object orientated programming using Java, building applets, small programs and apps, using Netbeans and Eclipse. I also part built an android program for childcare but then focused more on learning python.

ChildCare App

Most of the Java work I undertook I did not retain. Although this was my first attempt at creating an app following my study, using  Netbeans. It was simple and unfortunately, unfinished.

Mallons App

This was my second and last attempt, using Eclipse. I undertook this for a friend and did manage to complete the app. The purpose was simple, to take sales details from a rep and send these on via SMS for fulfilment. 

PYTHON

Self taught at home, I have built a lot of tutorial guided programs and gained experience with IDLE, PyCharm, VS Code, Flask and Django. Currently experimenting with Pandas and Data Analysis with tools such as D3.  Here are a few of the online tutorials that i have used;

CodeCademy

My first step in learning the python basics and program structure.

Also, completed SQL and Java courses to refresh my skills.

CS50

With CS50 I extended my python knowledge with programming tasks,

Also first introduction and use of     Flask, Jinja, Django and Javascript.

Automate the boring

The online site and the Udemy course further developed my python knowledge.

First worked on web-scraping and interacting with Excel. 

Exercism

Currently working through exercises for practice and insight in to how others solve the same problems.

Next step is to mentor.