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| My Drum Machine! |
Onto this week's coding update:
I got the Drum Machine I mentioned last week completed. Wippee!
I had to find help for the last most troublesome bits online, but all the brilliant engineers I know (and my very smart and very sensible wife) tell me that's how it's done, so that's that.
Now I'm tackling the Calculator project. I feel pretty comfortable with my basic React knowledge now, so it's all about applying my general problem solving skills. I've been making steady progress adding a little more functionality every day. While it's slower than I like I can almost feel my brain learning how to think more computationally every time I sit down to code.
Progress!!
Drum Machine looks awesome!
ReplyDelete+1 for looking for online help when coding. My own starting point is google, and I appreciate this sentiment:
> google search frequency increases with years of experience (https://redd.it/3bwo68)
I'm curious: what's the end goal for building up this programming experience? Are you looking to shift careers? Is it to be more fluent when collaborating with developers? An outlet to funnel energy? No need for an answer here, but fwiw: as a full-time developer, I have lots of respect for the projects that you've deployed. Far beyond the hurdle of picking up a language, you've pull in web frameworks and deploying things. Awesome work.
Thanks Lisa. That means an awful lot.
DeleteLooking forward to rescheduling that HH so I can bore you with my musings. In the meantime, it's kinda related to this idea of "developing hard and sought after skills (https://blog.mkdolor.com/2019/01/developing-hard-and-sought-after-skills.html)."
My hypothesis is the ability (and willingness) to learn how to code is a meta-skill that also, conveniently, helps with items 2 and 3 on the list you enumerated above.