def initialize(grit, time)

so i guess i have a studyblr now :3 i started studying web development in late 2021, dropped off, and then restarted my study in november of 2022. i'm currently going through the odin project curriculum on the ruby track. my goal is to get a job as a full stack engineer without a degree. my main is @daggersandarrows

[candycod3d]

to do list for portfolio -

load in experience dynamically instead of hardcoding it

change font color for italics

organize css page

change the color of glow for selected textboxes

add animation to buttons on click

add highlight to nav bar links on mouseover

change skills to web dev relevant stuff

separate section for soft skills?

[candycod3d]

apologies for dropping off the face of the earth--my journey with code the dream continues! i didn't realize i could work ahead so i've started doing that and i'm very excited about how soon i might be able to finish the coursework. i'm thinking about asking if i might be allowed to simply start on the advanced stuff, if i get this finished. i built my first form yesterday and i'm very proud of it!

[candycod3d]

i totally forgot to post anything about this but guess who got into code the dream's next intro class!! i'm extremely excited and really hoping that this can be the thing that breaks me through into a web dev career :) i tried for the advanced class, but i honestly didn't have enough time to make the prework as nice as i wanted it to be, and was getting errors that i understood like 80% of the way but not quite.

the intro course seems like a lot of it is stuff i already know, but it couldn't hurt to refresh! plus it'll probably be an easier place to start with actually timed assignments that what i was doing before.

[annienadel]

When you type 10 lines of code and it works at the first run!

[bunjywunjy]

I'm never going to have coding problems again

[candycod3d]

staring at this knowing it's so inefficient and i'm probably approaching the problem incorrectly but too tired to fix it ;_; i probably need to go back to the drawing board with some actual pseudocode.

[foone]

A fun thing about computer skills is that as you have more of them, the number of computer problems you have doesn't go down.

This is because as a beginner, you have troubles because you don't have much knowledge.

But then you learn a bunch more, and now you've got the skills to do a bunch of stuff, so you run into a lot of problems because you're doing so much stuff, and only an expert could figure them out.

But then one day you are an expert. You can reprogram everything and build new hardware! You understand all the various layers of tech!

And your problems are now legendary. You are trying things no one else has ever tried. You Google them and get zero results, or at best one forum post from 1997. You discover bugs in the silicon of obscure processors. You crash your compiler. Your software gets cited in academic papers because you accidently discovered a new mathematical proof while trying to remote control a vibrator. You can't use the wifi on your main laptop because you wrote your own uefi implementation and Intel has a bug in their firmware that they haven't fixed yet, no matter how much you email them. You post on mastodon about your technical issue and the most common replies are names of psychiatric medications. You have written your own OS but there arent many programs for it because no one else understands how they have to write apps as a small federation of coroutine-based microservices. You ask for help and get Pagliacci'd, constantly.

But this is the natural of computer skills: as you know more, your problems don't get easier, they just get weirder.

[sreegs]

you know you've made it when you're googling problems and ending up with 0-9 results

[manyblinkinglights]

#you don't actually have to be good to have these problems#you just have to be obsessed with a micro-issue that no one else cares about

[teratocybernetics]

[candycod3d]

today i worked on writing a recursive fibonacci sequence in ruby and i FINALLY got it after banging my head against a wall a whole lot trying to understand it, lol.

my curriculum right now is understanding recursion. i guess it won't be used a whole lot after this (?) but it's helpful to understand edge cases! after this i'm coding a merge sort recursively.

[candycod3d]

i finally decided to make a codeblr! i started studying web dev in 2021 and slowly but surely i've kept going, with the goal of becoming a professional web developer as soon as i can without a college degree (no money--or time--for school, rip). i'm currently following the odin project's curriculum. follows from my main @daggersandarrows