Hello! I'm Jeremy! I recently graduated from NSCC's IT Programming course! I love all sorts of programming from Java to C to C++ and so on, but my favourite is web development, since I get to work with so many different things. Web development has the basics of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript but you also get to work with databases, Java, different libraries and all sorts of things! It's truly amazing, especially when you get to see something you made up and running.

Other than programming, I tend to find myself reading, writing and playing video games, all of which still have helped my skill set in some way. Reading often has made me able to read through things quickly whilst still understanding them, which I've found is helpful for sussing out issues. Writing has helped me write good and explanatory comments for more complex blocks of code. And playing video games is mostly for leisure, but is what got me into the whole idea of wanting to be a programmer in the first place.

I love all the things I do, but programming strikes the right balance of leisure and work for me to want to have it be my career. The journey has been pretty fun so far, and I certainly can't imagine making a website of this quality even just a short year ago. I'm more than excited to see where I am in another year, too!

At the time of writing, I have very recently graduated! That's right, after two long years, I have finally finished my program at Nova Scotia Community College! I'm more relieved than anything to be done, and I'm looking forward to what future opportunities might come my way. I also by no means mean to brag, but I also graduated with honors, and was the recipient of the Governor General's Academic Medal, two things that both me and my friends and family are quite proud of. It's also nice having physical proof of how well I did.

Recently, I have just finished my work term with Hivo Inc., a company with an app and website that lets you rent or provide work spaces. I'll go into more depth about what I did specifically on my non-personal projects page, but here I want to go into the experience itself for the most part. Firstly though, I didn't really know TypeScript before I went into the job, but luckily it's similar enough to what I do know. That was just a bit of a scary first few days as I was learning the codebase.

The work was completely remote, but the experience was really nice, and I'd like another job in future where I can make my own hours. The people were quite nice as well. We had daily Scrums with the CEO, so we all saw each other at least once a day, and it made it feel like we were on the same level. I mostly worked on the mobile app and dashboard for people who wanted to let their spaces be booked, but I also did some work on the backend and main website as well.

Sadly, I was not picked up to continue working with them, but that's the end of the bad news. At the time of working there, and currently at the time of writing, they're a startup. Of a group of about 7 employees, also on their work terms, I was the number one choice to continue working there! It's just at the time my work term was ending, talks with investors were still ongoing. As of now, I know I would get a glowing reference from the CEO, and will be reached out to for future opportunities!

The most important things when taking on a new job is learning what you'll do, fostering relationships and growing as a person and in your career. I hope to achieve all of those things. Actively working together with people is just something that can't be completely replicated through schooling, and is something I'd love to do with my potential coworkers. In school, the people all come from different backgrounds and have experiences, but they all learn the same thing for a reason. In a workplace, that's different. There will likely be people way above, and way below my level of knowledge. Both teaching and being taught are great ways to learn and to grow closer to people, so I'm looking forward to both.

Just as an example, this is a video I've done explaining one of my assignments. I kind of went under the assumption that the person watching it would have knowledge of the topic at hand, but I still go over some of the basics quickly just in case. It's an example of me teach that I don't think is half bad, and I've tutored one of my classmates in the past, so I do think that I have the capability to teach others.