Begining My Web Dev Journey Through The Odin Project

Hi everyone!

This will be my first article in the 6 week article challenge! Woohoo!

I want to start off with my Odin Project experience so far. I found out about this site one day at a party during some small talk that stemmed from me deciding to wear a GitHub top. Bold choice for a party I know.

I investigated the site that night and boy was I hooked. For context, I have been in and out of programming for around four years and I have always been chasing greatness in the web development space, achieving suprisingly little results without any aid or courses to follow.

Upon starting The Odin Project I learned about the core principal/skill to programming that changed my perception on the craft. It isnt just about memory, your greatest strenght to aid you accross the vastness of languages out there is problem solving.

This is covered quite early in The Odin Project and it makes sense really. As well as problem solving the first main thing to be hammered down is "READ THE DOCS". Fair.. Following that I learned Basic Linux CLI and even before that you venture into dual booting a pc and Virtual Machines (Oracle Box).

I am now into HTML and CSS foundations. I was pleasantly suprsied by how fast this section can get you understanding foundations and proper practice routine.

I am going to keep at this project and improving, if you want to learn more about The Odin Project or If you know how I can better write out this article explaining my experience id love to hear from you in the comments!

Tip: I had never heard or know of the below security feature in href links , it may be interesting to some. I will paste also their description of the tags.

rel="noopener noreferrer"

noopener: The noopener attribute ensures that a link opened in a new tab or window cannot interact with or access the original page. Without it, the new page can use JavaScript to manipulate the original page, which poses a security risk. In this code: target=”_blank”: opens the link in a new tab. rel=”noopener”: prevents the new tab from accessing the original page, ensuring security. Without noopener, the new tab could use JavaScript to interact with the original page, which is unsafe. noreferrer: The noreferrer attribute provides both privacy and security. It prevents the new page from knowing where the user came from (hiding the referrer) and also includes the behavior of noopener, preventing the new page from accessing the original page.

This is just a quick summary of my Odin Project experience so far, I am early in the process but neverthless I believe these aspects are most likely going to be my key to success and growth.

Thanks for reading!