#sucodes

I've been on tumblr for ages, but I decided to create this blog to document my progress with learning web dev!

About me:

I'm 25, mexican-american, and I have an orange cat 🐱 (hence the avi, although I'm well aware it looks more like a fox lol)

I really struggle with undiagnosed adhd, so sometimes I'll get in ruts that last anywhere from a couple of days to a couple of months :(

I have a biochemistry degree but never used it because I thought I wanted to be a pharmacist lmao

Used to be a teacher but fuck that fr (me and the US dept. of education have beef)

I'm currently enrolled part time in a full-stack coding bootcamp

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Goals for this blog:

❤️‍🔥 keep me motivated and inspired

🖊 post updates on things i've worked on/accomplished

📚 reblog resources for future reference

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Languages I'm learning:

HTML

CSS

Javascript

node.js/express.js/handlebars.js

long time, no write! (big surprise lol)

i had a class on monday in which our instructor had Ada Lovelace as a placeholder name for one of our activities. he explained who she was, and concluded with "so the first ever programmer... was a female".

"a female" ??

even the women who are first in their fields are reduced down to just their sex.

how is it only tuesday 😩

had class yesterday and my group was so frustrating omg. there's quite a bit of chatgpt'ing going on with them but they're not even implementing things consistently smh. and they don't test often either!! test ur code ppl!!

i've had to fix like 5 bugs already over a groupmate simply not updating const's across our project files 🙄 that same groupmate was basically gaslighting me into claiming my bug fixes weren't correct bc that's not what chatgpt told him to do. he changed my code, took an hour just messing shit up, then finally asked a TA for help only for them to "fix it" the way *I* had already fixed it.

rant over.

today i kept working on my tasks and was able to fix some more bugs :) had a late start bc im so tired but our project is almost done (and almost due lol). so far so goooood

progress has been made!! it's not a lot but its smth lol

i worked on one of our js files and got our sign up link in the landing page to take the user to our sign up page!!! im stuck on figuring out how to store user data :// also need to work on the dashboard page as well 😣 if i cant figure it out in the next hour or so, i'll just work on the slide deck for our presentation.

i was so exhausted this morning and really didnt want to work today, but i'm glad i was able to get things done even if they're just small :')

the time has come, frens.

we just presented our demo for the project we've been working on! i'm proud of my team for wrestling through the struggles yet still delivering a working web app on time.

however, i wish we had more time to develop it because the time crunch was, imo, what lead to a lot of chatgpt usage :/ one of our project's requirements was the use of a new technology we hadn't used before, and i decided on using chart.js for data visualization. i had integrated it to our html files pretty quickly, and was soooo close to figuring out how to retrieve our user's data from the database we created. unfortunately we were running a bit short on time, so *that one* groupmate literally prompted gpt to give us the entiiiiire code for it. 🥲

i lowkey died but whatever. i tried my best 🥴

hi y'all, lil weekly update:

This week my group and I worked on our first full-stack web app! We're building a health/fitness habit tracker of sorts, and it'll be veeery basic since we only had like a week to work on it lol.

Our project is due this coming Thursday, so maybe once we have it up and running I'll show y'all how it came out :)

I'm currently pretty behind on the backend languages/concepts (biiig yikes), so I did quite a bit of youtube research on things like node, express, OOP, and a little bit of handlebars. Regardless, I've helped out more so on the javascript stuff since I'm a bit more comfy with it.

Like I mentioned in my intro post, I've been struggling with a pretty bad rut for some time now. I wanted to work on my project tasks yesterday and today, but alas. The dopamine was nonexistent. And so was the progress. Su: 0, executive dysfunction: 1 😔

Tomorrow is a new day. Gotta learn to be comf w the grind.

i've been quite unproductive since last friday. i've tried to give myself a proper rest from my coursework so that i can be mentally refreshed for the last home stretch of the bootcamp. i started messing with figma last friday and wow that's a whole new world i entered lol. i'm feeling kinda emo, so bare with me: