I often enrich my knowledge in my free time to challenge and improve myself with new things and refresh what I already know, so I've racked up some experience in the last few years. These experiences are listed below, sorted from newest to oldest. Here, you will find some valuable experiences I've decided to show.
Learning about music production, film, animation, and game development. Projects can be found here.
Professionally trained in dance, singing, rapping, acting, MC-ing, modeling, composing. I started in August of 2023, and I'm still training.
Dancing in various styles.
Participated in a language exchange program where I lived in Seoul and studied Korean at school.
Participated in a language exchange program where I lived in Munich and studied German at school.
Completed several programming language courses whilst taking the VWO course.
The first website was created mostly to practice making a portfolio to prepare for the making of this portfolio.
Simply put, it was an early version that didn't make it out of my files until now. The second website was the end project for one of my school's HTML courses.
The requirements were pretty low-level and restricting, which is why it looks like a watered-down, less creative version of this current portfolio version.
These websites were created
between early June and late July of 2023.
Project Veilige Samenleving (translated to English: Project Safe Society) was a project at my school in late
March - early April of 2022. We received the assignment of showing how we could make our society safer. Me and
the two classmates I worked with chose raising awareness about drugs and alcohol being used more by minors.
I
made the homepage and the "Manieren om te stoppen" ("Ways to stop") pages, and I helped my classmates with their
pages a little. This wasn't one of my greatest works but it was one of the earliest and shows how far I've come.
This website was made as part of a larger project at my school, where we were given around 20 hours to make a mini smart studio using a 3D printer, Blender, and a micro:bit, along with a website to "advertise" the studio. I made the entire website myself, and I helped with some of the micro:bit coding, as well as helping with the modeling of the mini furniture in Blender. This project ended June 22nd of 2023.
CodingCore is a website I made for myself. I use a lot of websites when coding and I'm too lazy to keep typing
in all my searches, so I just made this website to be able to press buttons instead of having to type everything
out.
Coding Core includes resources such as images, pixels, gifs, HTML help (stackoverflow, HTML validator,
etc), my favourite playlists I use as background music while coding, a functional note system, and more.
Development started July 8, 2022 and is still ongoing. I've separated version 0.8 and 2.0, as I wanted to
rewrite codingcore, but keep the original version. Version 0.8 hasn't been updated since July 25, 2022. Version
2.0 was created November 21, 2022 and its development has been paused indefinitely.
Open codingcore v0.8 here
Open codingcore v2.0 here
Professional training in athletics. Competed in athletic championships, of which I always won between first and third place.
Professional training in streetdance and theatre at Meervaart Jong. Performed streetdance and theatre at Theater de Meervaart 1-2 times per year.
Performed in front of a live audience, as well as national TV, on remembrance day.
I've been interested in tech all my life, and started my programming journey when I was 12. I love making websites and learning more programming languages in my free time. I've studied many programming languages at school, inluding HTML, CSS, Javascript, C#, and Python.
Academically, I'm still in highschool, year 5 of VWO level. I've started looking into plans for after graduation, and I'm working hard to become an impressive applicant.
Personally, I'm learning to accept and express myself. Rediscovering my love for the arts and classic media. Committing to exercising daily, and generally taking better care of my body. Overall in my "era" of personal growth. :)
I've always struggled to think about what I want for my future, because I love two opposites; arts and computers. I hope that I can find a way to combine the two in the future.
And so, I aim to dive deeper into game development; the perfect combination of the two. Webdevelopment is a close second, so I'll be maintaining my skills there as well.
Outside of of school and technology, I enjoy playing the piano, playing the kalimba, and exposing myself to art and new ideas to stay open-minded and creative. And even though I love coding, I also enjoy learning non-programming languages; I'm fluent in English, Dutch, Portuguese, and I'm learning French, German, and Korean.
This is version 3 of Isabella Braam's portfolio, developed on-and-off between May 10th 2025 and July 26th 2026. It is CSS certified.
