Today marked the beginning of my attempt to start a career as a developer.
The day started with introductions of all of our instructors and classmates. Some classic “My name is Matthew and my favorite movie is Toy Story” announcements were followed by working on group algorithms. Oddly, we were not tested on any of the algorithms I was drilling the night before.

We worked our way quickly through the HTML materials after a lecture on basic HTML practices and an explanation of how the internet works. I enjoy learning more about the fundamentals of the web and could see that information as being useful.

After that we worked on an assignment to create a fake blog using the HTML we’ve been going over. I had a little fun adding some personal touches to mine.

I had a chunk of issues with my code when I tried to validate it. After some trial and error I managed to work them all out and cleaned up my code. This was very gratifying, even if it looks trivial.

After this we got started with the CSS track. This isn’t the focus until tomorrow, but it seemed like a good idea to get ahead of it. For some reason I had trouble focusing on what I was reading for the material. After re-reading for a bit, I got started on the next project. This supplied us with an image of a layout that we had to recreate using some sample code. This took a bit longer than I would have liked, so I may re-visit that assignment soon.

That pretty much sums up my first day. My fellow cohort members seemed nice and so did the instructors. I look forward to seeing what I can create soon.

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