100 Days of Code

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A busy day today. I was so tired and was thinking maybe I’d just do 30 mins or something, but I wanted to see this through that I gave my all to stick with the 1 hour of code a day and I did! :D

I’m taking the course a bit more slowly so I can practice everything, while learning more. I know I can always go back to resources, but rushing through always makes me more stressed.

Anyway, I haven’t learned a whole lot more, so I decided to make another simple website. This time about one of my favorite bands :D

BTS hehe B)

I’ve been getting back into their music, so thought I’d make something to entertain myself and practice.

I thought the embed for the Spotify was really cool! I can’t wait to learn CSS to start making the websites look more polished! I really like coding. It’s fun and I like seeing my ideas come to life.

Today I learned about relative paths, how to make a link open in a new tab, and that I can turn images into links! I turned the photo of him in the blue shirt into a link. I’ll work on the site some more, but I’m tired. Too tired to go back and remove how cringey I was as a kid fawning over them lol that’s what’s in blue. 

Hey Tumblr! 

Your girl woke up at 7 this morning and got in an 1hr and 10 mins of coding and learning B)

I’m really proud of myself and I’m having a lot of fun learning to code. I made some small updates to my project based on what I learned today:

I learned how to add hyperlinks using the anchor <a> element :D There’s a fashion blog project coming up in this module so I’m excited to get started with that. I wanna learn how to use my own images from my computer in my projects. I know there’s a way and Codecademy said you can do it using the anchor element, but I can’t figure it out yet. I’m sure eventually they’ll get to it, if not I have google and plenty of resources to find out.

Hey Tumblr! 

Today I got in good practice!

I finished my module on the fundamentals of HTML, I got some module practice in, and I made my own little project using what the module taught.

I showed one of my friends and he said he thought it was an adoption website. I know it’s not the most impressive website, but I’m proud of myself putting the time, effort, and practice in. This project taught me how to put a YouTube video into my code! I learned something new because of this! I was trying to do it how my course taught using the <video> tag, but it wasn’t working. I had everything there like it should like:

<video src=“example.link” width=“340″ height=“340″ controls>

Video not supported

</video>

I then went to the forums of Codecademy and some had suggested using the <iframe> tag, but that didn’t work either. I eventually came across someone else who suggested using YouTube’s embed link. This is different than the share link. So, I did and huzzah!

The video isn’t of my pets, I just wanted to practice embedding videos so I used a random one.

But yeah! Seeing the YouTube embed link showed me some new code that I was missing when I tried it on my own. But all in all a wonderful practice! I spent about in total 2 hours today! :D Excited for more learning tomorrow!

Though, tomorrow I have work AND college plus a doctor appt :(

The only time I’ll really be able to get my stuff in is in the morning :/ like EARLY morning...

So fun being an adult with no time to do anything :D

Hi Tumblr!

I woke up this morning excited to get started with my course again. I love learning :D it’s so fun and I think the topic is cool! Coding! I like learning the ins and outs of the technology that I use everyday :) makes me appreciate all the work that goes in behind the scenes more.

I haven’t gotten to much coding yet. I’m still in the introductory phase of the course. But I noticed on Codecademy they actually have project ideas that you can do on their platform! How cool! I was going to install Brackets.io on my computer again to get started making projects once I have enough tools, but maybe I’ll do one of their projects. I’m not sure if they have varying levels based on their courses and where you’re at with their course work, if I can’t find anything suitable I can always just make my own project.

But yeah, I’m excited to learn and make stuff :P

Codecademy also has lots of courses. I realized mine isn’t considered a course, but rather a career path. 

I want to get more involved with the community too. I think it would be helpful to network and grow with others. I also want to get better at typing. I feel like as a coder it would be beneficial to improve in this skill. More time efficient and also less error if I’m more familiar with the computer. 

I’m excited want to continue, but I also don’t want to burn myself out just yet lmao

I have other things that need my attention, so sadly I must go to them as well. 

All in all going well, and I’m excited to continue. I think also doing my hour of code would be in my best interest to do in the morning. I’m a morning person, I feel most productive in the morning, so I think if I really want to complete this challenge and keep the promise to myself, then that would be the best time to get it done.

Today is Day 1 of my 100 days of code.

I’ve been dealing with some inner turmoil, and am unsure of what I want in life. I question if coding is something I want. I feel like it is, but part of me worries I’ll be wrong. I’ll hate this work, and I’ll be stuck.

Well, I’ve decided I won’t stand idle any longer. I may not know what I want,, but I know I’ll never figure it out if I don’t try. I should be trying all kinds of stuff right now at my age. I don’t need to have it all figured out :)

So, I’m going to give my self 3 months (give a few days) to focus on web development and see if it’s a right fit for me. I want to give this an honest shot. If I leave it, it’s because it wasn’t a right fit. Not because I never tried because I was scared of failing.

So today I got an hour in of Codecademy. I finished the first. module of the Front-End track. It doesn’t seem like a lot, so I hope to get this done soon, and on to more learning opportunities. The next module is Fundamentals of HTML. I’ve worked with HTML and CSS a bit in the past, but a refresher will always be a good thing. 

I’m officially 1% through with the course (: hehe

Not long to go (’: