Scott Böning

Coding background

I started to code at the end of 2019. I wanted to change careers and studied Business Informatics for 1 semester. I learned Java and CS basics. While I enjoyed coding and CS, I did not like the rest of the curriculum, and therefore I quit. I took online courses in HTML, CSS, JS, and Python on edX, Coursera, and Codecademy.

In 2021, I enrolled in Code Institute's Full Stack Software Development course. I was appointed channel lead for the Interactive Frontend milestone project. In this function, I answered questions from fellow students in Slack and during calls, and held two webinars about Git and API responses. For all my milestone projects, I strived to exceed the requirements and follow best practices as best as I could. Examples include using branches in Git from my first milestone project on, adding a site notice and privacy policy to my projects before it was expected in the course, implementing CORS and CSP starting with my third milestone project, and implementing a full text search over multiple models in my fourth milestone project. I graduated in March 2022 and received my diploma with Merit.

Both during and after the course, I taught myself additional skills to improve my employability and time before I can be productive in my new role. Recently, I have switched to code in WSL on my PC, installed Ubuntu on my laptop, and started using pre-commit hooks. Currently, I'm refreshing and deepening my knowledge about OO in Java and taking a course in microservices architecture.