I thought it might be fun to discuss what I'm focused on learning for the month of November. When I first graduated from Flatiron, I made a post-bootcamp curriculum of things to learn over the following months. But since then, I've found myself slowly drifting away from that laundry list. This is partly because of feedback from other developers, along with my struggle retaining and applying certain topics.

So my priorities have shifted to learning JavaScript well.

Since my program focused on teaching a little of everything (rather than going deep in any one thing), there's still a lot to do before I can feel confident with JavaScript. That's why it's the perfect time to recalibrate my initial curriculum (IC) for the next few months.

In November, the IC has me scheduled to:

• wrap up learning Express
• create a React Admin Panel
• start a project using the MERN stack
• among other things

Current status:

• I'm still learning fundamental computer science principles
• I'm still building a strong foundation in vanilla JavaScript
• I'm still exploring express

Goals for the next 3 months:

• Work on challenging projects (rather than tutorials)
• Deploy my projects and maintain them
• Start testing in every project

These are more general goals. So the next step will be to break them down into measurable steps to track week to week.

Realizing that knowing a bit of everything wasn't getting me very far, I quickly decided to focus on JavaScript, because I liked the language. Check out this great video by Fireship on how JavaScript works under the hood.