Procrastination
I find that this is something that is very common coders, developers, designers, and basically most humans. I have made procrastination an art. Someone should pay me to teach a university level class on this. With that being said, I am slowly plugging away at Free Code Camp. I am currently on the Tribute Page assignment. I said I would blog about my experiences with my self-teaching of full stack development, so I am. This is going to be a pretty basic post. Edit: Not such a basic post. Got into sexism in tech a bit.
I have tinkered with different programs for free āclassesā for full stack development. Bento, Codecademy, FreeCodeCamp, w3schools (they donāt advertise as full stack course so maybe it is unfair to lump them in this, but I am). As I am trying to seriously invest inĀ Free Code Camp. I am finding that I need extra references and information than what is provided. At one point in the course it did state that you may need to Google things or hit up people in the chat rooms for help. I really like the Gitter (similar to Slack) aspect of Free Code Camp. The people on-line are usually very helpful. You just have to get over your ego (maybe that is just me) and ask for help. Itās nice to interact with people who are willing to help. This may be old school of me, but I am still in awe that someone across the globe is in this room with me, walking me through a best approach to code/the problem at hand.
As a woman doing this program and asking for help, the Free Code Camp community that I have experienced is really non-predator. I have had experiences in past with men hitting on me, asking me for nudes in exchange for help in coding/non-coding situations, etc. This is really straight-forward help/assistance. Itās such a relief and because of that I am not as apprehensive to ask questions. Sometimes as a woman, you have to mentally put on armor and ready your mindset to deal with sexism, misogyny, violent threats, etc on-line. Free Code Camp has created a space where that is one less thing I have to worry about. Now, I am not saying it doesnāt ever happen in Free Code Camp Gitter chat. I am saying I have not experienced it. I am saying I hope I get to continue to not experience it. I hope that the more I use it, the user experience stays predator-free.
Okay, now that I have blogged and procrastinated I better get back to Bootstrapping this Tribute Page assignment.















