I have been studying Developer and API documentation throughout my Technical Writing program at Portland State University. I did this by giving myself a developer-bootcamp-style experience.

 

In addition to some front end web development basics, I taught myself:

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• JavaScript 

• Git and GitHub

• GitHub Pages and Jekyll 

• Markdown

• HTTP Essentials

• How to launch an open source project

 

Furthermore, I am currently taking a web developer bootcamp course, "The Complete Web Developer Zero to Mastery," so that I can more fully understand how developers think.

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To supplement my learning, I have interned with a local web development shop, Flight.run, for several terms in a row as a content marketer so that I could watch and learn the workflow of developers. I have also volunteered with Code For PDX, a volunteer group that builds apps for nonprofits in Portland where I learned about using Twitter's API and about, developer documentation, and being part of a user experience team. I came out of these experiences more confident in my ability to work with developers using a docs-like-code approach and my ability to be a productive contributor to any software development team.

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My Spring 2019 Internship:

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This Spring term, I have begun an internship with IdRatherBeWriting.com. I am helping them edit and expand the site's API documentation course, one of the best know API documentation courses on the web (receiving approx. 3,000 unique views a day!).

You can find the course at https://idratherbewriting.com/learnapidoc/.

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In addition to writing course content (mostly about Graph QL), I am creating a video series, recording myself walking-through the course. This will be for people to follow along (via the audio as I read aloud the course material) and to help people who need more step-by-step direction throughout the activity sections of the course (by watching what I do on my screen).