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Tom Wagner

Junior Front-End Dev

About me



Ahoy, I’m Tomasz but everyone calls me Tom. I live in London and I am currently in training to become a Front-End Developer.


                    
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                        name: "Tomasz",
                        last_name: "Wagner",
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                        hobbies: 
                        [ "coding", "technology", "art", "nature", "travel", "climbing", "backpacking", "food", "video games" ],
                        core_skills: 
                        [ "JavaScript", "HTML", "CSS", "cooking", "talking" ],
                        secondary_skills: 
                        [ "node.js", "express", "npm packages", "APIs", "React", "Redux", "Bootstrap", "GitHub", "MongoDB", "Mongoose" ],
                        text_editors: 
                        ["VS Code", "Sublime"],
                        Before_coding: 
                        ["hospitality", "sales", "recruitment", "own business"]
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Why am I applying?



I’ve always wanted to work in tech. As with many dreams I have repetitively told myself that I’m not cut out to be a coder and looked for excuses not to do it. I’ve arrived it London at the age of 18 with mere £150 in my pocket. I am happy to say it was a best adventure I have ever had… and I am still here. I made it. I have always “fell” into jobs then into a university course and finally into a career. It didn’t feel right, but I carried on as that’s what I have always done. Eventually unfulfilled by my career, when my wife decided to open her restaurant and needed help I couldn’t be happier to be by her side. It was second best adventure in my professional life. It was then when I developed a website for the business and reminded myself how much I once loved doing this and my passion was reborn and old dream of becoming a coder alive again. With a support of Monica I decided to finally make that dream come true.


Besides having basics of HTML and CSS which as you might expect changed “slightly” since my high-school days I needed solid foundations. I have spent almost a month researching the most effective ways of getting them. This is where among many other courses and materials I have discovered a FreeCodeCamp and Colt Steele’s Web Dev Bootcamp on Udemy. I started attending meetups and getting to know more people like myself. Learning on my own has been great but I felt I needed to spend more time working with others. Considering my final goal of getting a job, I knew I would be better off learning to work with others. I could be studying how to code alone but I wasn’t learning how to be a developer. On one of the meetups I was pointed into a direction of Founders and Coders. I quickly fell in love with the teaching style and strong stance on important issues present within a tech world.


I love to learn, and I love to teach. I’m a true believer that you only really understand something fully if you can explain it to a someone else. That’s why I love the idea of peer learning so much and I hope I would thrive in such environment.


Below are the links to all prerequisites:



  1. FreeCodeCamp Profile

  2. CodeWars Profile

  3. Image Carousel - GitHub

  4. This website - GitHub

My learning methods and materials will go here

I am interested in finding a junior/trainee role where I will be able to work with JavaScript. I have chosen to get a solid understanding of CSS3, JavaScript, Algorithms, Data Structures and basic CS before learning libraries so I’m still an open book. I look forward to learning anything new so get in touch if you’re looking for someone passionate, dedicated and willing to learn.

Certifications // Courses // NerdStuff

CodeWars

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FreeCodeCamp

free code camp responsive web design certificate free code camp javascript algorithms and data structure free code cmap frotn end libraries certificate

My core skills:

HTML

80%

CSS

60%

JavaScript

50%

React

10%

Some of my recent work

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Please see my CodePen for examples of small projects, GitHub and CodeWars to view my code. Thanks