Hi there! I'm Elaina and I'm an Instructional Designer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science. I also hold a Master's degree in Computer Science from the same institution.
I'm happy to chat about available roles in the Data Sciences or to any prospective/current iCAN students. The easiest way to contact me is through LinkedIn.
Lately, I’ve been interested in developing a stronger foundation when it comes to my mathematical knowledge. To do that, I’ve been doing tutorials on Khan Academy in both Algebra and Statistics, though I’ve recently made a commit to finish the Statistics course before the end of the year.
This month, I finished the Authentication module of my web development course and added authentication to my book review website to allow for Google Authentication. This would prohibit users other than myself from being able to edit my database of read books.
This month, I finished one of my Web Development Capstone projects: a book review database and website. Key features of this website include API queries to display the book covers, CRUD functionality, and the ability to sort and filter the entries. This project is functionally complete, but I may expand it at a later date.
I’m very excited to announce that I have accepted a position as an Instructional Designer & A/V Specialist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the Department of Computer Science! I will officially start on November 13 and I’m very excited to start this new chapter in my career.
This month, I completed the MongoDB module in my Udemy course and updated my todo list application to have persistent storage. After completing this, the course content updated to replace MongoDB with PostgreSQL, so on paper I’ve made little to no progress on the course this month. However, I’ve gotten good practice in setting up databases and querying databases in both MongoDB and PostgreSQL.