4/25/2016

The pre-coursework has kept me busy lately,  but hasn’t really been what I expected. I finished the HTML/CSS course on Code Academy and was hoping to put that to practice in the pre-coursework, but so far it’s been entirely Javascript. After being thrown into some challenges that looked like another language to me, (I suppose it is) I had to go back to the drawing board on how to tackle this.

I’ve completed all of Coding Dojo’s Algorithm app lessons, but I struggled a bit there. I’m making a point to revisit those often to try and get the recommended solution time under 2 minutes. However, the challenges that followed that have been, well, challenging. I’ve restarted the Code Academy course on Javascript to try and at least have some idea of what I’m looking at, but it has been really tough going. Things just aren’t clicking like I would have hoped and seemingly basic concepts are very difficult to wrap my mind around.

I’ve had the luxury of having a few friends going through some of these challenges with me. We all kind of look at the same material and come together on solutions and what we think is correct. This has been helpful for sure.

One recurring issue I’m having is just remembering the syntax. Placing “{}” properly without some example code devolves into a guessing game more frequently than I’m proud of.

I’m doing my best to trust the system in place and just continue ramming my head into the wall that is Javascript until something clicks. Hopefully that happens sooner rather than later. Time is running low.

Thanks for reading.