Diana Legorreta 🇲🇽

“This was a huge milestone for me. I made every mistake possible, repeated containers, threw classes around like they were free, and named things with zero meaning until my code turned into a mountain of classes with no meaning. The project looked great on the outside, but behind the scenes it was heavy, messy, and absolutely not maintainable. So I refactored it just about 20 times. In the end, I learned more than I expected not just about layout and my old nemeses (positioning and grid 😅), but about writing clean, maintainable code.”

“In the summary of the workshop Matt said, ‘If you feel frustrated, take a break and come back.’ and I took many breaks, ‘If you run out of inspiration, take a walk and come back.’ and I took many runs, and I came back. This project was very challenging, design is not my strongest suit, and positioning is my nemesis. Facing both demons at once tested my patience and grit. I’m not sure how I feel about my final design yet, but I am proud that I finished it. Maybe with more practice and experience, I’ll create something with more polish, but for now, completing it feels like sweet victory.”

“I just completed the SheCodes Plus, Plus AI, and Plus Add-On workshops. Across these modules I went from writing basic scripts to shipping real, user interface tools. In SheCodes Plus, I built a fully interactive weather app with forecast data and learned modern ES6 patterns, API integration, and Git/GitHub workflows. In SheCodes Plus AI, I learned practical prompt design and integrated an AI API to build my Corporate AI Translator, focusing on clean UX, loading states, and accessibility. In SheCodes Plus Add-On, I developed a World Clock with live time zones (the most challenging one so far) using timezone libraries and interval updates for real time accuracy. What I valued most: Hands-on projects, clear instructor guidance, and feedback from the SheCodes community. I’m leaving with stronger JavaScript fundamentals, confidence working with APIs, and a portfolio I’m proud to share. Thank you, SheCodes!”

“I built a mash up of the Mexican Joke Generator and the “How to say in corporate” TikTok trend, a Corporate AI Translator that turns blunt lines into professional sentences. Built with vanilla HTML/CSS/JS, Axios, JS plugins and the SheCodes AI API. Biggest win: learning how to properly prompt AI. Biggest loss: still design/UX (I guess, one day, I'll get there). 100% recommended, it's been my favourite module so far.”

“What I learned the most in this course is that 'default' and 'devault' may rhyme in German, but in JavaScript they rhyme with undefined (just kidding). Like Matt said at the end of SheCodes Plus, the project itself may look simple, but the journey it's a little bit more complicated than that. Along with SheCodes training, I watched support material, burned through all my hosting credits, which led me to a side quest through CloudFlare setup training + GitHub repo literacy. In the end, my little vanilla weather app not only works, it also gained much more confidence, each bug fixed, each feature added made the whole process feel more real.”

“I think I had mentioned it last time, I hadn't coded anything in 20 years and I stumbled across SheCodes about 2-3 years ago. Life got in the way, the usual things, work, kids, cats, you name it, but what I like the most about it is that I can come back and rewatch the topics that washed away with time from memory. I just select what I want, chuck it when I need it and continue with the following topics. Friendly reminder from someone who didn't check the browser settings while coding the final project: check your browser zoom settings before you submit it :D”

“I haven't coded anything in the last 20 years. I had almost mostly forgotten what I learnt in the past and this was a nice beginning for me. The workshop had me so invested, I loved it and I enjoyed it deeply. I can't wait to take part in the advance workshops.”