From Craft to Code

Two days ago I started The Iron Yard in Raleigh. If you haven't heard of Iron Yard yet, you will. This is a bootcamp style certificate program in web development. We have four weeks of learning front end development, four weeks of back end dev, and four weeks of 'specialization' or language learning. It's Day Three and I've already learned more than I did in a year of free online courses and tutorials. And I. Am. Exhausted. But exhilarated! The first day covered how to work in command line and using terminal to work in git and push commits to github. The second we covered basic html and even created a three page interactive 'site' without any css or javascript. More importantly though, there is a lot of focus on the REAL work. We are learning how to 'just do it' without understanding the bigger picture or knowing how it works or why you're doing it. Programming is very much a second language and immersion is key. Now this code snippet may ...