Camila Arce

About me

Hi, I'm Camila and this is my story. I studied biochemistry in Chile, but one of my big dreams was to have the experience of living in a different country. For that I first went to Ireland to learn English and then I started a master's degree in biochemistry in Germany. My specialisation was in cell biology and I did my thesis on how binge alcohol consumption affects adolescence. Germany is very cool, but its climate not so much, so I moved to the south of France looking for more sun and beach when I had the chance.

Unfortunately it was not good for my career, I could not find a job because my area of work was very specialised. So I had two options, specialise in another area to stay in science or start something completely new. And here I am, I think you can figure out which way I went. It's been a very fun road, learning a lot of new things and it's just the beginning.

Why web progamming?

Two years ago I was told about a game to learn programming: Codecombat. I started playing it for fun and learned a lot. I will definitely show it to my kids.

After that, I decided to take some courses. A friend told me about Laracasts. I started watching some videos about HTML, CSS and PHP. Jeffrey Way explains very well, he makes you believe that everything is very simple. Then I started watching videos on Grafikart to improve my french, here I did again HTML, CSS and continued with Javascript.

Making the decision to go back to school was difficult, but that I wanted to study was not so difficult. I already had some programming experience and thought it was fun and interesting. So I decided to take a web developer formation at OpenClassrooms. Which I finished end of September 2024, since then I'm officially a Web Developper.

Since I finished my Openclassrooms courses I'm mostly taking care of my child. But I'm also trying to take the time to continue to improve my new set of skills. I'm in the process of learning more about React through the Epic React course.