Hello World.
Duncan Crawley / Trainee Full Stack Developer / Manchester and the North West
Let's Go!About Me
I am a student who is currently enrolled on the Northcoders
Bootcamp, I count honesty, respect and environmentalism amongst my
key values. Having spent the first half of the course learning all
about the fundamentals of JavaScript and its use in the back-end I
hope to put this into practice on a number of personal projects that I have in mind.
If I had to pick a favourite part of the course so far I’d have to
choose the Pokemon sprint in particular. I had the opportunity to
create a Pokemon game designed for the command line, practising with
key concepts such as Object Oriented Programming and inheritance.
Prior to applying for a place on the Northcoders Bootcamp in late
2020 I was an experienced Room Leader in a day nursery. A loud and
hectic environment, nevertheless enabled me to development efficient
leadership and communication skills; both with fellow practitioners
and also the (sometimes stubborn) children. I graduated from
Nottingham Trent University in 2017 with a First Class Bachelors
Degree in Childhood Studies after changing course from Chemistry in
2014.
Although possessing very little musical skill myself, I am very
passionate about music and spend a lot of my own time going to gigs,
and enjoying the varied musical offerings that Manchester
has to offer.
Projects
Choose Your Own Pokemon Adventure
Technologies Used: JavaScript, JQuery (and soon HTML and CSS) This started off as a two day sprint on the Northcoders Bootcamp intended to teach Object Oriented Programming. However further down the line I decided to expand it into a Choose Your Own Adventure style game. In order to do this I have been teaching myself some basic JQuery. Development is slow as most of my time is spent focusing on the course but the game will be hosted in the near future. For the time being the GitHub repository can be found here with instructions on how to install and play the command line game.
News Api
Technologies Used: Node.js, JavaScript, Express, PSQL, Knex This API was created as the backend project at Northcoders. I found it really beneficial as it helped build my understanding of the backend and how Node could be used on the backend. I also further built on my understanding of TDD as it introduced testing on the backend. Please follow this link for the API and the GitHub repository can be found here.
This Portfolio
Technologies Used: Bootstrap, HTML and CSS My portfolio page itself is a project that I've spent a lot of time on. I started it prior to the Northcoders bootcamp with some very rudimentary HTML and CSS knowledge and during careers week I took the time to familiarise myself with Bootstrap in order to format and style the page in the way I had envisioned. Although I don't have much skill in design myself I was able to build on the foundations provided by Bootstrap and personalise it to create something that I am proud of. For anyone interested you can see my code here.
Contact Me
duncan.crawley@gmail.com
Phone
07724163877
