#freecodecamp

me, three hours later, stuck on the next challenge:

Yessssss I finally got my fCC JavaScript developer certification :')

Of course they decided to go ahead and release a whole new curriculum a few days before I wrapped this up, thus making this previous version now somewhat obsolete (great timing, folks), but I don't really mind – I was only doing it to learn the skills in any case.

In my final project I got to work with APIs again, which I hadn't done in ages and always enjoy, and I got some practice with asynchronous programming.

Harvard CS50's introduction to programming courses.

There are different ways to do CS50, here's some. Choose any version.

Intro to programming (General)

Intro to Programming with Python.

Intro to Programming with Python and Javascript

Intro to Game Development (Playlist)

CS50 main website

FreeCodeCamp

Today I only worked on the freecodecamp web design course. I’m getting through these lessons quickly, but I don’t want to zoom through each course section and just forget everything I learned so I want to pace myself. I’m also returning to college next week from spring break so I hope I can manage posting into my schedule too.

Finished lessons 69/69 of  Learn HTML by Building a Cat Photo App.

 Lessons 45/91 of Learn Basic CSS by Building a Cafe Menu.

Note: I’ve noticed I tend to forget the formatting for HTML but not for CSS so that's something for me to practice.

Extra

I tried matcha green tea for the first time today and I think I'm obsessed now.

I finished my first crochet project! A little flower coaster, it’s a little wonky but I am still very proud of it!

I really enjoyed coding today! I did a lot of little bits of coding for different things. My primary focus was the Tribute Page. I had forgotten that one of the requirements for the page is a link. Since the page is paying tribute to fictional character that I made, I decided to make a second page to link to. I spent some time yesterday coming up with ideas for a story that I will theme all of my freeCodeCamp certification projects around as I learn. I will also include additional personal projects to fill out my story as needed (like the secondary page I mentioned).

The purpose of this approach is to get me invested in learning to code. It's extremely difficult for me to be consistent, especially with self-managed learning. Learning is fun but it can be frustrating. Storytelling is also fun. So are secrets. I'm hoping that by slowly developing and revealing a secret story bit by bit in my projects, I can get myself invested in them enough to offset that frustration and keep myself coming back. As a bonus, having a central theme eliminates the problem of figuring out a theme or premise for each project individually, which is something I have struggled with in the past.

day 7/100

for the seventh day i decided to try out a course on freecodecamp called the scientific computing with python certificate. i'm already doing a beginner's programming class in uni where we're learning python but i figured it couldn't hurt to get a second perspective. you can see i've done five or so lessons so far. :)

i'll have to do more to really get an opinion on it but i think I like how the teacher explains it. there was even a thing or two he cleared up that my own teacher glossed over (... or maybe i just didn't understand it the first time haha?)

i've used freecodecamp before but not since the pandemic started. it was with the old responsive web design certificate (i did a little with it, but my progress seems to have been erased since they replaced that certificate with a new one around a year (?) ago), so it'll be good to get back to it!