A list of all the things I'd love to accomplish in programming! ⭐⭐⭐

This repository is inspired by one of my former Dev Bootcamp students and current Software Engineer at Uber, Ginny Fahs. You can find her blog here: https://blog.prototypr.io/wondering-if-youre-a-real-developer-yet-try-making-a-bucket-list-281275482155

I populated this list with ideas from this blog post, too: https://medium.com/@jbnv/a-bucket-list-for-programmers-e6a8c568d05d

✅ Done:

• Attend a hackathon. (AngelHack San Francisco 2014)
• Push code to GitHub.
• Open the computer’s terminal.
• Use a text editor.
• Learn to use a keyboard shortcut as a habit.
• Write tests for your code.
• Attend an engineering conference. (ForwardJS SF 2015)
• Read a book about coding. (Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, started June 2015)
• Open your browser console.
• Hide API keys from the public.
• Deploy a project. (Nuzzle on Heroku, November 2019)
• Create an Airbnb clone. (Nuzzle, November 2019)
• Create a dating app. (Datesy, December 2019)
• Write an app specifically for a mobile platform. (Datesy, December 2019)
• Get data from an API. (Pinterest API, January 2020)
• Help other people learn to code and debug. (Le Wagon TA in Buenos Aires, January 2020)
• Complete a timed technical challenge on HackerRank. (Outco Fundamentals Test, February 2020)

🚧 Doing:

• Learn to use a Sublime shortcut as a habit.
• Write a functioning Web application in JavaScript (without a framework).
• Make your own Website. Buy a domain name representing your name and set up a website with that domain name.
• Complete a mock technical interview.
• Apply for a software engineering apprenticeship.
• Post a question on Stack Overflow.
• Contribute to an open source project.

😍 To Do:

💻 Career

• Complete a real technical interview.
• Get paid to code.
• Ship your project to a store. (App Store, Play Store, Chrome Store, Alexa Skills Store, so many stores!)
• When someone asks what you do, respond with "I'm a Software Engineer."
• Speak about something engineering-related at an event.
• Mentor a junior developer.
• Teach a class on programming.
• Write a technical blog post.
• Have an estimate accepted without ridicule or derision.
• Do something that causes a lot of trouble for your employer. Clean it up. Tell epic stories about it forever after.
• Serve on call. Resolve a major issue in the wee hours of the night, on a weekend, or on a holiday.
• Wake up in the middle of the night with a great idea. Spend the wee hours developing that idea.
• Contribute an article to CSS Tricks.

🎟️ Conferences & Events

• Participate in a hackathon.
• Attend An Event Apart.
• Attend DefCon.
• Attend RailsConf. Watch DHH speak IRL. Meet DHH IRL.
• Attend SmashingConf.
• Attend CodeLand.

📚 Books

• Read Real Programmers Don’t Use Pascal. Contemplate how easy you have it these days.
• Read 99 Bottles of OOP by Sandy Metz.
• Read Practical Object Oriented Ruby by Sandy Metz.
• Read Developing Large Web Applications: Producing Code That Can Grow and Thrive.
• Read The Elements of Computing Systems.
• Read Eloquent JavaScript.
• Finish the entire You Don't Know JavaScript book series.

💡 Learning

• Build something nontrivial using hardware logic gates.
• Write a functioning program in either COBOL or Fortran.
• Write a functioning program in assembly language.
• Write a functioning program in C.
• Write an NPM module.
• Develop a REST API.
• Write something that interacts with the physical world.
• Write a virus. Release it into the wild.
• Set up a continuous build and deploy process.
• Create a programming language. Write a compiler or interpreter for the language.
• Use a machine-learning technique.