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hqen2000
hqen2000
June 1, 2018, 12:42 AM
Great job. His wAs a very optimistic goal. High stakes but high results.
dseright
dseright
May 31, 2018, 12:27 PM
We'll start out by going over the hours. Which if it's not the first picture is the one with the purple ring in the thumbnail. My estimated times were these:
Tier 0 - Prep
College Algebra (14 hours)

Tier 1 - Intro to Programming
Book: YDKJS Scopes and Closures (5 hours)
1st Project (8 hours)
Book: YDKJS this & Object Prototypes (6 hours)
Project: CSS Zen Garden (8 hours)
Course: Programming for the Web (32 hours)

Which neither of us noticed this totals to 73 hours. So lulz. Anyway let's look at the times actually achieved.

Tier 0 - Prep
College Algebra (14 hours 20 minutes)

Tier 1 - Intro to Programming
Book: YDKJS Scopes and Closures (2 Hours 51 Minutes)
1st Project (8 hours 33 Minutes)
Book: YDKJS this & Object Prototypes (3 Hours 6 Minutes)
Project: CSS Zen Garden (6 Hours 35 Minutes)
Course: Programming for the Web (20 Hours 55 Minutes)
Misc (35 Minutes)

The miscellaneous was pretty much when I was setting up an environment on linux. It wasn't really necessary to lump it into its own category. I could've just thrown it with basically anything else. As we can see the times are fairly close with the notable exceptions of the books. They took far less time than I estimated. Which makes sense since I've already read them before. They are the type of reference that makes more and more sense the more I learn so I've actually already started going back to them after gaining new knowledge of different concepts.

I spent a little less time on the zen garden than I estimated. What I learned is that I really have no clue how design works or what look good. I'm highly interested in making things I already have a concept for (1st project) but figuring out that concept myself I do not enjoy (zen garden). It definitely shows in my final version of the zen garden, where I spent a ton of time making the website responsive at different sizes (ie, mobile, tablet, laptop, desktop) as opposed to figuring out how I could make it look nicer. I don't feel this is a bad choice and is in line with what I want to do career wise. I don't want to design, I don't even really want to do front end stuff. But the knowledge is invaluable.

Let's talk about the math briefly before shifting into the meat of the time which was the javascript course (close to a 1/3 of the total time). For the math I was using a textbook found online but I started losing steam on it. And explored the other option, an online course. I like the course SOO much more because it actually takes my current knowledge into account. So whereas in the textbook I was still working through various things I already knew in the course I'm relearning things I've forgotten. I've also realized how much I prefer to learn in a course based environment. That's a good segue into the javascript course.

One thing I really took away from this is how much I enjoy the courses as opposed to random projects or books or any other form. Something about having lectures and then an intense period where I'm hard at work on an exercise and then the lectures again really feeds the way I learn. I actively watched the lectures too so it wasn't laziness. I was pausing and trying to figure things out myself and looking up stuff I didn't understand. I think it was just the shifts in pace which really helped to dig into those long 10 hours sessions I had. (Note: there were no uninterrupted 10 hour sessions. I took several breaks through out each one either to change focus or take a shower and regain focus or whatever)

Now for proof. I sent you various snaps of the working projects. I can host them if required. I also sent snaps of my math pages. And now for as many screenshots as I feel like taking before I get bored. Let me immediately if you want any more verification of anything. On the 3rd picture you can see I've completed 4/6 of the javascript course homework assignments. Which means I'm about 2/3 through. Which in my original estimate of 32 hours I thought I could get 3/4 of the way through. So not bad.


Moving forward....

So this was a great start. I'm actually somewhat taken aback I accomplished so much. It seems like so little in the grand total of things I need to learn, but I'm that much closer. Today I am taking an off day, but I'd like to keep working on the syllabus for an hour or two everyday. Not going to define myself a strict schedule but it will probably be a small part of my next challenge. With my next challenge which I want to have outlined by Sunday Night at the latest, I want to set myself up with the habits that make me happy, and force myself into them. So working out, meditation, good sleep hygiene. As I mentioned a small amount of coding will be a part of the overall theme, but it won't be such a massive sprint like this one. This was a hyper specific targeted challenge to kick my ass into gear, whereas the next will be more of a shove into doing the things I know I need to do to be happy.
dseright
dseright
May 30, 2018, 1:21 PM
I'm done. I'll do a post mortem tomorrow with lots of pictures and stuff. For now I'm a lay down in bed and be glad this isn't over my head anymore.
dseright
dseright
May 28, 2018, 12:47 PM
It's almost 8am. I've been coding since 9pm last nite when I got up. Except for a few minor breaks that puts me at about 10 hours. So a pretty solid day. I can't really complain about that. I spent all of it on the JavaScript course. Nothing too exceptional. And none of the projects were real exciting. First one was a breeze, just moving some CSS around. Second was basic Javascript which functioned well as a review. The third one was a bit more difficult. It was a calculator in Javascript using jQuery. It took me a minute to get my bearings but after that the only hard part was at like hour 8 trying to handle some of the edge cases. But I dug in and got it figured out. About 20 hours with 3 and a half days left to do it.
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