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5.18.19 - criminal law & investigations workshop, week 3/5

messing around with lighting and angles while on my lunch break during the criminal law workshop i’m in. not pictured: the amazing melt i had for lunch & the girls i bonded w after my second mock trial !!

2/100 days of productivity

Here's another throwback spread to January! I know I know, I'm not posting notes but I promise I'll post them soon enough!!

2.7.19

no problem! so before i get to the tips, i want to make it clear that we didn’t do any programming in regular comp sci class, the teacher made a separate subject for those of us who wanted to learn it. i only attended it for one year but here’s what i picked up from it:

learn. the. basics. i can’t stress this enough, but if you don’t know the most used 20-30 commands, it will only be harder for you later on. print out a sheet with basic commands and learn it

handwritten code!! this sounds so dumb, not gonna lie, but it helps so much. you don’t have to write down the whole web page, of course, but writing parts of the code that you had problems with will help you be more exact - some programming tools fix your mistakes while others don’t, so you might as well learn to be correct from the beginning

tumblr honestly helped me so so much. there are tons of ““templates”” here for desktop themes, member pages, navigation etc - make use of them! find a desktop theme you like, upload it to your blog and change colors, font size, add an updates bar and whatever your heart wishes! here are some blogs that can help you with finding codes: @enchantedthemes, @odeysseus, @completeresources

now, i asked my friend valentina aka @jordietveld for tips because she’s studying computer science at university so she has more experience - here’s what she came up with:

if you’re learning actual programming you need to learn how to make good algorithms first! an algorithm is like a cooking recipe, you need ingredients that you know how to mix to bake the perfect cake so!!! learn how to make algorithms before starting writing tons of lines of code that might work (but probably not)

practice practice practice!!! make small programs/pages. everyone starts small because if you don’t master the basics the rest will just be too difficult to understand

don’t get discouraged when things don’t work on the first try even if your algorithm looks flawless!! remember that the computer is way more stupid than it seems, you need to be super precise when you tell it to do something