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For a recap, I’ve been doing the section 1 practice + projects on freeCodeCamp. That’s the HTML and CSS section. I’ve completed all the practice items, but I’m currently on project number 2 of 5 to get the HTML certification. This post is really to affirmed that I haven’t gone back on my public commitment.

I’m gonna try and post everyday now. I’ve just been a little swamped between school,…

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750 Words: The challenge of challenges

This will be interesting. I could not sleep and started stressing about getting up in time to ride to the train station for the 7a train, so I gave up the ghost at 4a and just got myself ready for the 4:54a bus. I am not sure how coding on the bus will go. It’s not as smooth a ride. Jiggly lap => jiggly laptop => rando typos. I have no problem coding every day. I do not need the 100-days-of-code…

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100 Days of Code III and Codie Jodie

After going 150+ days in the second round, I put this challenge to bed. Until this year. On the first, I started the challenge over. I will adjust some of the rules as they’re rigid (to me). They’re better rules for those not taking classes and following tutorials. I am doing both. I won’t count classwork or homework as part of the challenge, but I will count any supplemental tutorials or…

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I know. I know. Shu’up!

I spent two hours, staying up until 2:30a, trying to figure out something that just came to me while I was staring out the window and enjoying my last cappuccino. 

I know. I KNOW! But this is my ADHD in action. Hyperfocus. While I was at The Iron Yard, homework was due at 12a. No staying up late because it’s pointless to be a warm body in the classroom if the brain is on ice with a toe-tag (my brain has toes, but only seven). As a former teacher, I trust my instructors’ advice and obeyyyy. If homework is due at midnight, I turned it in at midnight—finished or not. If I had to turn something in incomplete, I’d comment the daylights out of it so that they understood where I was lost. Bootcamps do not have the luxury of time that 4-yr institutions have. I’d stress about what I would turn in and hyperfocus. Sometimes that would work, but often adding the stress of being evaluated put up a barrier. While on the surface, I wailed that I’d never get it, I deep down where my burps are made, I believed SuperJess, who kept reminding me to add Carol Dweck’s “Yet!” to my wailing:

I don’t grasp Ajax ... yet.

I don’t get “this” ... yet.

I don’t have any ice cream in my freezer ... yet.

Last night I was in my hyperfocus zone again, but I was having fun. I’d struggle, try something, go back to other parts of the app to play, return. It was a battle, but messing with my code was fun. I knew I wasn’t searching with the right words. And I knew it was a matter of yet.

Fast forward to this morning, and it comes to me: “stop listening”. Oh yeah. Off. Derp. I’m always playing with .on(“click”, function(){//your bad-ass code here//} and have not had the need to stop listening. And that, my liege, is how we know the earth to be banana shaped is why we code every day: re-view, re-visit, try new things, rinse, lather, repeat. 

I don’t want to count this as part of my 100 DoC. My rules for me are to code every day, but for 100 DoC, I build something in a day. If I choose a larger project, then I’ll try to dissect it, but going back to tweak is just “code every day”. If I run out of time, I’m totes counting this. Sorry. My life. My rules.

poooooop!!!

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100 Days of Code: Don’t be skeert

It was a dark and stormy night. 

Not really. It was a bright, sunny, muggy day, but my laptop was in a dark place. I’m sure it’s just a phase.

I had serious plans to get my jQuery on, but I was still in the mood to doodle. Conveniently, I came up with jQuery ideas while I was doodling. I don’t know if it was the act of doodling or just that by the time I started, my brain woke up. I’m not a morning person. I get up at 5a, but I do not function until after 12. I am starting to think that it’s futile for me to come up with something before noon.

A dark and stormy night. And I never got around to making it stormy. Just let it be a dark night, okay? 

[edited: Added jQueryUI for shakes. Whoo hoo!]

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100 Days of Code: Greyhound

I finished! Holy schmokoly, doing the back end of a dog is hard. I am hoping all that focus will help me to do that on my own. So focused on this, that last night I had a dream about it; however, Dream Me drew a horses head instead of a hound. And to make it worse, I wasn’t even naked with Steve Buscemi. 

I hope to return to this one to have fun with animation. 

Happy 4th! Keep your critters safe. I’m on my way to get ice cream and peanut butter because I deserve it!

Greyhound by CSS