text: import React from 'react'
  
  import Layout from '../components/layout'
  import Head from '../components/head'
  
  const ProjectsPage = () => {
      return (
          <Layout>
              <Head title="Projects" />
              <h2>
                  I am currently working at{' '}
                  <a href="https://www.gocivilairpatrol.com/">Civil Air Patrol</a>{' '}
                  as a Database Administrator Intern. In my freetime I have been
                  coding a few side projects this summer.
              </h2>
              <p>
                  {' '}
                  This summer I wanted to start learning React, a JS frontend
                  framework for programming Single-Page Applications, &
                  Django/Flask, Python backend frameworks.{' '}
              </p>
              <p>
                  I'm started learning React by building a simple{' '}
                  <a href="https://github.com/Alec-Gillis/ketchup-time">
                      ToDo App
                  </a>
                  . I toyed around with React until I had a basic ToDo app, then
                  took a look at the source code on{' '}
                  <a href="http://todomvc.com/">ToDoMVC</a> as a comparison.
                  Secondly, I created this site with{' '}
                  <a href="https://www.gatsbyjs.org/">Gatsby</a>, a React-based
                  static site generator. Gatsby was really enjoyable to learn and
                  use!
              </p>
              <p>
                  I'm diving deeper into python by making a{' '}
                  <a href="https://github.com/Alec-Gillis/spotify-util">
                      Spotify Utility
                  </a>{' '}
                  using the PyQt5 and spotipy libraries. I eventually started
                  using Django & React to build a site for a payment service. Once
                  I tried to sprinkle in some Redux, a React state-management
                  library, I decided I was trying to learn too much, too fast. I
                  was overwhelmed trying to learn Django, React, & Redux all at
                  the same time. And quite frankly, I didn't need all of the fancy
                  front-end frameworks to pull off what I was trying to
                  accomplish. Since then I've dropped back to remaking the site
                  using only Django + templates.
              </p>
              <p>
                  Recruitment season is right around the corner, and having a job
                  lined up before I graduate in December 2020 would be ideal. I
                  have begun practicing for technical interviews by reading
                  Cracking the Coding Interview and by doing daily Leetcode &
                  HackerRank problems.
              </p>
          </Layout>
      )
  }
  
  export default ProjectsPage
  