Checking In 7-18-2018

So I know I'm really bad about keeping up with this blog, so I think I'm going to stop doing the approximate times in my subject lines.

It has been a LONG time since the last blog post, but that doesn't mean I haven't done anything with coding since then. I have watched a few more lectures, practiced by coding along with my video instructor on a few things, and I have been pretty satisfied. Udemy says I'm only 17% done with the course thus far, and that doesn't make me feel great. But I am happy to say that I have made it all the way through the HTML portion of the course. THAT is pretty cool.

I'm still working on CSS. And I like that the instructor keeps emphasizing that it is too much information for a human to keep in their heads, and that learning how to Google and reference code is such an important skill to pick up along the way.

I keep looking into paying for an online coding bootcamp, but it is all pretty expensive. And I just don't have that kind of time or money at the moment. I have a buddy who works for a software company in Fresno, and he explained that they do their own coding bootcamps. Furthermore, he has let me in that they may be opening an office in my town, and that probably means that their bootcamp will come with them if they do open something here.

So I think I'll keep trudging along when I have a few spare moments and get to the end of this course... Then to the end of another... Then to the end of another.

The idea of being a "programmer" seems so far away, but I need to remind myself that it is a hobby. This isn't my career. And I'm doing it for the knowledge. And even though I'm typing it, it doesn't really make me feel better. But I know that's just my own baggage/anxiety creeping in because I'm not "good at something right away."

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