Samir's Portfolio

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  • Personal Journey Reflection of a Web Design & Development – Freshman Year

    Personal Journey Reflection of a Web Design & Development – Freshman Year

    In this blog post, I’m gonna be reflecting over my journey in web design & development throughout my freshman year. I’ll be sharing the insights, & growths that I experienced from this growing year of my education. Additionally, I’m gonna be addressing some key concepts, projects, or techniques that significantly affected my learning journey. In this post, I aim to give my personal perspective on my early beginnings of web development & designing education.

    Some foundational concepts I learned this year are HTML and CSS. These were heavily taught throughout the year and were constantly honed to be better as the year went on. HTML and CSS were the main concepts to be learned of the year. They contributed to my growth because they showed me a glimpse of how code behaved & how it can be manipulated. It also contributed to my growth because they are how websites are made, and so learning them would help me in my web development journey.

    Some projects that stood out to me are the animal project and the country website. These stood out to me because they were reliant on what I could do, and I didn’t have a foundation of how to make the website or what to make it look like. It was all up to my own creativity and imagination to create the website. Additionally, because I was forced to use my own creativity & resources, it forced me to grow. It forced my skills to improve because I had to improvise & figure out ways to do things myself.

    I’ve made a lot of progress throughout this year and have a lot of goals for the upcoming years in web development. I plan to learn Javascript & learn how to create more responsive websites.

    Overall, this year has shown me a lot in web development & design. I think I learned a lot for a first year, & I hope to learn more in the coming years of my education. I learned many fundamental concepts that built a base for me to build upon with the coming years. Additionally, projects honed & strengthened my web development skills throughout the year. I think this year was very satisfactory for learning web development.

  • Project Reflection and Personal Critique

    Project Reflection and Personal Critique

    In this blog post, I’m gonna go over one of my projects that I’ve completed this year (animal website project). I will be evaluating different aspects of my work ethics that I put into completing the project, such as challenges faced, my strengths, my weaknesses, & more. Additionally, by evaluating the project, I will go over how I would approach finishing another project in the future.

    My overall strengths in the projects were getting things to be how I wanted. If I thought of an idea that I could implement in the website & wanted it in, then I would have little trouble finding a way to get it exactly how I imagined. For example, on an image button, I wanted it so that the image button would ‘pop’ out when a user hovered their mouse over it. I was able to successfully implement this idea & got it to be just as I imagined in my head.

    My weakness was getting it done on time & efficiently. The project had a due date that stretched to a month long. I waited the first couple weeks to just not do it at all, and then when the last couple of weeks came along, I sort of started working on it. By the time the last week had came, I was barely done and started cramming the project in time, even staying up til’ midnight to work on it. It was a mess.

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    Some challenges faced when completing the project was coming up with creative ideas to set things up. For example, when I was making other pages for the website, I had to think of ways I could set the pages up. I couldn’t just use the same layout as I did for the first page I completed, then the entire website would just be bland. I had to try to think creatively as to how things should’ve been to keep variety in the website, & that was probably one of the hardest parts that I faced.

    In this project evaluation, I discussed the different aspects in my work ethic that went into completing the project. I stated that I shined when it came to implementing ideas, but coming up with the ideas was a challenge. I had also stated that using time wisely to complete the project was a weakness for me. Based on this evaluation, if I were to complete future projects, I would try to be more open for ideas in my head, taking inspirations from others, thinking outside the box, (etc…) in order to fuel my creativity. Additionally I would also complete the project in a timely manner, starting & finishing the project in time.