I am a web developer and programmer from Norway. I am really passionate about computers, programming, web development, and everything else related to it. It is immensely satisfying to write a line or two of code and figuring out what all the 0's and 1's of a computer actually do.

On this page you get to join me on my quest to solve whatever real-life problems I encounter using code.

# Lets get coding!
print("Hello, world!")

name: Olav Øye Rørvik
located_in: Sandnes, Norway
education: Self-Taught Developer

currently_studying: ["100 Days Of Code - 2024 Web Developer Bootcamp"]

fields_of_interests: ["Web Development", "UI/UX Design", "Game Development"];

goals_this_year : [
  "Master programming fundamentals",
  "Create a portfolio page",
  "Become a professional web developer",
  "Make my wife her dream crochet blog site",
]

Step 1 🧑🏻‍💻 in progress 100 Days of Code - 2024 Web Development Bootcamp by Academind

Step 2 🧑🏻‍💻 The Odin Project - Learning more web development. More learning by doing on my own.

• JavaScript track first
• Ruby track second

Step 3 🧑🏻‍💻 FreeCodeCamp - Basically just using FreeCodeCamp to make additional projects after Odin Project.

Complete the FreeCodeCamp's core curriculum certifications:

• Responsive Web Design Certification
• JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures Certification
• Front End Development Libraries Certification
• Data Visualization Certification
• Relational Database Certification
• Back End Development and APIs Certification
• Quality Assurance Certification

💡Time to learn more about Object Oriented Programming + Data Structures and Algorithms

To get a basic understanding of data structures and algorithms, read the following books while also working on the steps below.

📖 Read the first half of the book "Computer Science Distilled" by Wladston Ferreira Filho

📖 Read the first half of the book "Grokking Algorithms" by Aditya Bhargava

Step 4 🧑🏻‍💻 CS 50x Learning the fundamentals of programming languages.

Step 5 🧑🏻‍💻 Learn C++ Programming -Beginner to Advance- Deep Dive in C++ by Abdul Bari to learn OOP with a compiled language.

Step 6 🧑🏻‍💻 Mastering Data Structures & Algorithms using C and C++ by Abdul Bari to learn DSA concepts in-depth.

Learning OOP with an interpreted language:

Step 7 🧑🏻‍💻 Scientific Computing with Python Certification by FreeCodeCamp

Step 8 🧑🏻‍💻 Data Analysis with Python Certification by FreeCodeCamp

Step 9 🧑🏻‍💻 Neetcode 150 first half 1-75 using Python 🎓 These are commonly used for interview questions.

At this point, I have enough 🛠️ tools in my 🧰 toolbox for most entry level web developer jobs.

• I know two web languages (JavaScript and Ruby)
• A compiled OOP language (C++)
• An interpreted OOP language (Python)
• SQL databases (The Odin Project Ruby track)
• NoSQL databases (The Odin Project JavaScript track)

In no particular order :

⚡ Build a big full stack personal project - A Crochet Blog Site with e-commerce store for my wife ❤️ (HekkanHekkel.no)

⚡ Do free online hackathons and open source projects to get experience writing code in a team environments using Git / GitHub

⚡ Get Comptia's Network+ Certification

⚡ Get Comptia's Security+ Certification

⚡ Get AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Certification

⚡ Get AWS Certified Developer - Associate Certification

⚡ Get Google UX Design Certificate

⚡ Get Google Project Management Certificate

⚡ Getting comfortable with cloud technology. Build a big full stack data-intensive personal project

⚡ Use Pramp to practice doing live coding interviews

📖 Read the second half of the book "Computer Science Distilled" by Wladston Ferreira Filho

📖 Read the second half of the book "Grokking Algorithms" by Aditya Bhargava

⚡ Watch Abdul Bari's Algorithms playlist on Youtube.

⚡ Do Neetcode 150 second half 76-150 using Python 🎓 These are commonly used for interview questions.

📖 Read the book "Clean Code - A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship" by Robert Martin

📖 Read the book "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" by Martin Kleppmann

📖 Read the book "Algorithms" by Jeff Erickson

I started my coding journey all the way back in 1999 and made my first simple web sites related to my first car - a 1978 Ford Escort RS2000 Replica. After a few years, and several homepage projects, I decided to learn how to actually build web pages with HTML and CSS. This lead tot he creation of a discussion board called EscortPower.net. This website was quite popular in the Ford Escort community at the time and had good number of daily users. I developed this site from 2002 to 2004 when it was sold to a automotive decal sticker company that wanted to integrate their business into the site.

After I sold the web site, real-life took over and I fell out of the web development game for quite a number of years. I dabbled a bit with various CMS discussion board sites and also made an effort to learn PHP. This was when PHP was in version 3, and I have long since forgot most of what I learned then.