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🏄‍♂️ Forrest Knight

Digital Craftsman (Developer/Filmmaker/Creator)

I'm an indie full-stack developer and content creator building my version of the digital world one step at a time. All coding projects are built from the ground up, from planning and designing all the way to solving real-life problems with code. All video content is built the same way, from ideation and planning, all the way to finalizing the content with artistic touches. I publish that content on my YouTube channel "ForrestKnight" to more than 400k subscribers.

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🧰 Languages and Tools

Java

Spring

TypeScript

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Git

Linux

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

React

NodeJS

Python

C++

GitHub

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📺 Latest YouTube Videos

How to Improve Efficiency as a Software Developer How to Build a Minimal Developer Portfolio Website Using React + Tailwind + Vite Command Line Tools ALL Developers Should Know I Built a Minimal Developer Portfolio Using React + Tailwind + Vite I Made a Custom GitHub Profile README Portfolio (and you can, too) 5 Coding Projects (from beginner to advanced)

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👨‍💻 Forrest's Coding Journey

 I started my coding journey as a naive computer science student with a passion to learn everything I could about this programming world - code, unix, linux, theory. And all the while, teaching myself iOS development with a dream to build my own app, but that soon got overshadowed by my desire to excel in Java. A desire that landed me a full-stack software engineering job upon graduation. However, I had another desire I had been pursuing throughout this time - YouTube content creation. I eventually ended up quitting my software engineering job to pursue YouTube full-time, and that has been my focus ever since. But there's something that's always bothered me about my journey - abandoning my dream of building my own app to pursue the safe route, a job. Now I've already taken the leap away from that safety net into this uncomfortable, unexplored world that it being a creator. And it worked out, but again, it became comfortable. It's easier to create a video than go out on a ledge and build my own product. I do have to eat, at the end of the day, but I think it's time. It's time to get uncomfortable again. I have a burning desire to get back on the horse, and fulfill that dream younger me had of building my own app, my own product. And in order to do that, I'll be implmementing a few measures to streamline my YouTube content to focus more time on fulfilling that dream - a dream that I'll be ready to tackle in 2023 due to the measure I'm putting in place now until the end of 2022. Don't wait up, because I'm coming.

Popular repositories

  1. open-source-cs Public

    Video discussing this curriculum:

    16.5k 2.8k

  2. open-source-cs-python Public

    Video discussing this curriculum:

    3.3k 577

  3. yt-dislikes Public

    Add the dislike count back to my YouTube videos via a comment containing that information.

    Python 153 17

  4. Wrestling-Simulation Public

    My Favorite Computer Science Programming Project of All Time

    C++ 94 35

  5. SudokuSolver Public

    Python 82 46

  6. ToDoList Public

    Incredibly Mediocre Android App

    Java 47 41

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November 2022

Created 6 commits in 1 repository
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