#nonprogrammer

aerobics

agroecology

air ball

andropause

anti-marijuana

anti-pot

antisocial personality disorder

Asian carp

assertiveness training

audiocassette

automatic teller machine

b-ball

Beeb

bias-belted tire

bikie

biotech

blue flu

boardsailing

B-school

cannabinoid

cephalexin

Chicana

chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

chump change

circular file

cluster bomb

cochair

cochlear implant

codec

command sergeant major

conceptual art

crackback

credentialism

cutoff man

DBCP

delocutive

dextromethorphan

dietary supplement

dirtbag

dirty laundry

disintermediation

doobie

DOS

Down’s

echocardiogram

ego trip

eiswein

el cheapo

encounter group

endonucleolytic

estrogen replacement therapy

fantasyland

fast-pitch

fast-track

fido

firmware

first world

flokati rug

floor-through

flower child

flower people

flower power

franchisor

frostnip

fry-up

full-bore

gap junction

gastric bypass

gazar

geminal

gofer

G-protein

green paper

group home

hand-holding

haplotype

hard-knock

heliosphere

hissy fit

honeybell

house dust mite

humongous

ibuprofen

ick

idiotype

informatics

interrobang

Inupiat

jihadist

juke

ki

Korat

Krugerrand

labelmate

land yacht

likuta

locked-in

loogie

love-in

low-tech

lunar module

maxi

max out

megacity

melanize

merc

microquake

midi

mid-rise

midsize

minicomputer

minipark

MIRV

monohull

muffuletta

multicarbon

mycoplasma-like organism

networking

no-fault

nonoxynol-9

nonprint

nonprogrammer

nonstory

nurse practitioner

ocicat

omega-3

on-target

original equipment manufacturer

outro

overstored

owie

panda car

paramedic

Peter Principle

platemaker

postcode

Powassan encephalitis

prepsychedelic

preregistration

primary care

proabortion

proteoglycan

psychedelia

radioallergosorbent

recreational drug

reformat

rekeyboard

resid

retheorize

rip off

RV

samizdat

scag

self-professed

self-similarity

sene

seniti

shabu-shabu

she-crab

shiatsu

Shoah

sickie

side-scan sonar

slimmer

slimnastics

slo-pitch

slow-pitch

sound-and-light show

spaghetti western

speed freak

sports drink

SQUID

staff sergeant major

STP

stun gun

subemployed

subemployment

sudser

superflack

supergraphics

supermodel

tachyon

tae kwon do

technetronic

technostructure

teenybop

tender offer

THC

thebe

trackball

trank

tree ear

trijet

turfski

user fee

verapamil

vibe

videoconferencing

videoland

water pill

wet bar

whacked-out

wideout

word processing

yada yada

Yanomami

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As a philosophy major who tries hard to get some dreams come true, I say it still has been a rough journey for me. Having a personal idea you do not want to share, and try to make them true is very hard. 

so why did I go solo?

first, I want things not complicated, I want my idea to be controlled and I hate explaining things to other fellows because I’am not good at it.

second, I just want to call this my game, I want a player, playing my game to think, yeah, I am inside a man’s brain here.

third, let me NOT eat my pride, I just want to create a game and be put in line with those people who created games on their own.

is it hard to be alone? 

yes it is very hard, but nevertheless it is very rewarding.

After my full weekend of GA's Programming Bootcamp, I think it's fair to say that I love coding.  Being in a room full of real beginners struggling through the concepts together was more valuable than I realized.  Many of them have been working in tech companies for years and are looking to get a better understanding of their developers, so I felt like I learned a lot beyond just coding.  

Major takeaways from the weekend:

1. CSS and HTML is really, really fun: At least on the beginner level.  Twin Peaks gifs? Hipster Lorem Ipsum? A place to put the picture of Albert Einstein in fuzzy slippers that has been saved on my computer? I really enjoyed that. 

2.  Huge respect for web developers: I had no idea it was so hard to move things around a webpage.  I mentioned Wix to the developer teaching the course and he could barely contain his distain.  After trying to get my sidebar to stay in place for awhile, I understand what he means.  

3.  Amazing resources available for free: Balsamiq for mockups, W3 Schools for every random question that came to mind, Bento for tutorials and so many more

4. Back end coding is dull:  Sunday was spent entirely on back end coding and I could barely stay awake.  No more gif-browsing for me. We coded in Ruby and used the Sinatra library to make it easier to get things done.  I'm still very confused about syntax.. learning such high-level overviews of so many things in a weekend probably was a little over ambitious.