It's Friday!
After one week of diving straight into hands on coding my brain is fried but my spirits are high! I know there is so much work ahead of me but knowing that I'm capable of learning at this pace is really encouraging. Just five short days ago I didn't know anything about command line, knew conceptually how to push project files to git but never actually had confidently, and certainly hadn't ever created a mock up of a web page from scratch with HTML and CSS.
Along the way I've discovered there were more road blocks in my way than I realized. I haven't ever been familiar with Mac interface so just looking for my files and switching between windows took way longer than it should be. I'm not super in tune with my learning style either so it has been difficult to sort between what I didn't understand and what I couldn't remember. Any mistake I've made along the way I doubted my understanding of the material instead of assuming I spelled something wrong or forgot to close my line.
Looks super complicated, right? Turns out most of this I don't even need to read! Anything before the ':' is pretty irrelevant. At first, I had never even used command line so I had no idea what to see. But everyday we have created directories ('mkdir' is the command for that followed by whatever the name of the folder should be) and files to nest in them ('touch' followed by a file name). Then I had to grasped that git was something entirely different and that's where those git commands come in! As I move through this program I hope the confidence in my ability grows. Obviously my comfort with commands themselves will expand and I won't have to google every piece but I look forward to feeling good about what I write. How I write it is another story - better practices will come to me, hopefully, but small mistakes will be a part of my coding experience for the rest of my life. The earlier I look for those mishaps rather than assuming I don't understand how to do it the better.
Until then, it's Friday and I'm so looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow and cleaning my house! My laundry is at critical level and I haven't properly gotten back to crafting or making cards so tomorrow will be very messy and chaotic and awesome!
Along the way I've discovered there were more road blocks in my way than I realized. I haven't ever been familiar with Mac interface so just looking for my files and switching between windows took way longer than it should be. I'm not super in tune with my learning style either so it has been difficult to sort between what I didn't understand and what I couldn't remember. Any mistake I've made along the way I doubted my understanding of the material instead of assuming I spelled something wrong or forgot to close my line.
Looks super complicated, right? Turns out most of this I don't even need to read! Anything before the ':' is pretty irrelevant. At first, I had never even used command line so I had no idea what to see. But everyday we have created directories ('mkdir' is the command for that followed by whatever the name of the folder should be) and files to nest in them ('touch' followed by a file name). Then I had to grasped that git was something entirely different and that's where those git commands come in! As I move through this program I hope the confidence in my ability grows. Obviously my comfort with commands themselves will expand and I won't have to google every piece but I look forward to feeling good about what I write. How I write it is another story - better practices will come to me, hopefully, but small mistakes will be a part of my coding experience for the rest of my life. The earlier I look for those mishaps rather than assuming I don't understand how to do it the better.
Until then, it's Friday and I'm so looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow and cleaning my house! My laundry is at critical level and I haven't properly gotten back to crafting or making cards so tomorrow will be very messy and chaotic and awesome!
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