James Edward Newell

About Myself

A little about myself. I'm a recent graduate of General Assemblys' WDI course and have an intense passion for Web Development. All my life I’ve been surrounded by friends and family working in education, an interest I also share, so I followed in their track and became a swimming teacher. During my spare time, I became interested in coding, using chrome dev tools to view the very code behind my favourite websites.
One day I saw an advert for General Assembly and their WDI course, it sparked my curiosity and I quickly noticed similarities between teaching and coding such as creating a basic code on the computer could be seen as similar as using the basic techniques of swimming strokes and then refactoring and refining a child’s ability to swim. Whilst enjoying my time as a swimming teacher, the coding industry excited me and I became engrossed in developing my problem solving and logical thinking skills through creating and customising websites. I am driven by challenges and the quickly evolving coding industry has captured my interest and this is why I joined the 3-month immersive to satisfy my desire to know more.
I am excited to continue building and developing my coding knowledge further. I would love to use my teamwork skills to tackle big challenges/problems in a small to medium sized company.

Portfolio

Project 1 – JavaScript Game – Minesweeper

Source Code: Github

Skills Used: HTML5, CSS, ES6, JQuery, JavaScript.

Summary: A simple JavaScript game, replicating the old classic Minesweeper.

Minesweeper
Pub

Project 2 – Express Full Stack Application – PubReviewer

Source Code: Github

Skills Used: HTML5, CSS, ES6, JQuery, JavaScript, MongoDB, Mongoose, Morgan, Bcrypt.

Summary: First full stack application using JQuery and MongoDB as a host for user information.

Project 3 – Group Project - MEAN stack Application - Plan Your Night

Source Code: Github

Skills Used: AngularJS, Express, Node.js, JavaScript, MongoDB, Mongoose, Bcrypt, JSON Web Token, HTML5, CSS, Google Places API, Skiddle API, Bulma.

Summary: A team project with split responsibilities to showcase our teamwork skills

Night Out
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Project 4 – Group Project - MERN stack Application - Developers Code Shop

Source Code: Github

Skills Used: ReactJS, Express, Node.js, JavaScript, MongoDB, Mongoose, Bcrypt, JSON Web Token, HTML5, CSS, Google Places API, Bulma, Bluebird, Nodemailer, Chai, Mocha.

Summary: Final WDI Project using React.JS

Interests

Brewdog 🍺

I first found an interest in Brewdog in my late teens whilst on Holiday. Since that day when I first tried Punk IPA Brewdogs flagship beverage I have been hooked. Years later Brewdog crowdsourced for the third time raising 4.25 Million Pounds I was part of this process and am a proud Equity Punk, the term used for those of us who have invested in the Brewdog Brand.

Swimming 🏊‍

I learnt to swim at a young age and went onto join my local swimming club where I started to compete. As I grew older I found I had less time for swimming, but in the past two years I have picked swimming back up, making time for something I find enjoyable. Being a competitive soul I joined Teddington Masters with the eventual hopes of competing for them at International level.

Cycling 🚴🏻‍

One of my many interests that I have is to cycle, and over the years I have managed to complete many sportives including the Prundential Ride 100, a 100 mile cycle ride out of London and around the Surrey Hills. My love of cycling doesn't end on the road and I can be found off-road travelling the Summer Lightening Trail also found in the Surrey Hills.

Chelsea FC ⚽️

Since I was a young boy I have always supported Chelsea Football Club, I still remember my first ever game which was against FC Kovenhavn in 1998 it was only a 1-1 draw but I knew my love of Football and Chelsea was cemented forever. I am currently a Season Ticket Holder in the Matthew Harding Upper Stand and try to go to as many of the games as I can.

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