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Yay Code School badges!

By Elizabeth Reiher on August 21, 2017

Everybody loves badges! ( I know I did as a Girl Scout! And I have the badge-festooned vest to prove it.)

~~Check out my Code School Badge page.~~ (update: CodeSchool disappeared when Pluralsight bought them so now my badges are no more. #sad) ~~Doesn’t it make you want one too? LOL.~~ (And yes, Girl Scouts now have digital badges too. I want to be a Girl Scout again.)

I want to thank Code School for holding another free 3-day weekend. They are also offering 50% off on an annual subscription until August 31, 2017.

There is so much to learn there and many people I look up to consider it the best source for learning to code, so that’s a pretty heavy endorsement. I’m seriously considering it. The only thing stopping me is that I am trying to focus on WordPress and they don’t have WordPress modules. I spent the weekend working on PHP and Git, so it’s still very usable. Plus there’s HTML and CSS for starting out as well as Javascript, Ruby, Laravel and SQL.

Great resources for setting up your brand new MacBook Pro to fly!

By Elizabeth Reiher on July 31, 2017

Oh happy day! New MBP arrived. Using my lunch hour to set it up just right. #100DaysOfCode http://pic.twitter.com/yH0KumsRym

— Elizabeth Reiher (@tonomoshia) July 31, 2017

Thank you to the following:

Tania Rascia’s Setting up a Brand New Mac for Development (Her whole site is awesome. You should really consider signing up for her email list.)
Nicholas Hery’s Mac OS X Dev Setup
GetMacApps (like Ninite for Macs)
Mac OS X Set Up Guide
Homebrew
SharePoint Oscar’s Mac Set Up page which is a fork of Tania Rascia and adds a few things here and there
Chris Mallinson’s The Perfect Web Development Environment for Your New Mac

With my new rig I can finally use Docker, so I will be learning with the Play With Docker Classroom.

Having so much fun with my new Mac. Still love the old Mac too though. I have invested so many stickers in it. (LOL).

On day 5 of round 2 of #100DaysOfCode . . .

By Elizabeth Reiher on July 21, 2017

. . . and here is my blathering so far: 2nd Round of #100DaysOfCode. I’m using bitbucket for the first time and I put my #100DaysOfCode log.md file inside my repo for my ‘Book Reports” where I am drafting my posts about the books I am reading.

So I am learning:

how to use Bitbucket
how to use Markdown (more)
WordPress (via Skillcrush and Udemy)
whatever is in these books I am reading (!)

I’m publicly committing to the 100DaysOfCode Challenge starting July 17, 2017.

By Elizabeth Reiher on July 13, 2017

I’m publicly committing to the 100DaysOfCode Challenge starting July 17, 2017. Join me! http://bit.ly/2uVOPNG #100DaysOfCode #DeepWork

— Tonomoshia (@tonomoshia) July 13, 2017

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July 13, 2017 at 11:59AM

Round 2!

What day am I on?

By Elizabeth Reiher on April 27, 2017

What day am I on? 55 minus 2 for 2 days I took off to finish major MBA school work, so let’s say day 53. #100DaysOfCode

First 2 weeks in Colt Steele’s Udemy Course

By Elizabeth Reiher on April 27, 2017

(I started this post after one week but let it sit for a week . . .so now I am up to lecture 57, 18 % complete, booyah! )

So I have indeed learned some new things my first week in Colt Steele’s Web Developer Bootcamp Udemy course (first 4 units), as I thought I might.

First of all, I have learned some cool Sublime shortcuts. In my first Udemy coding course, the teacher was typing so fast and things would sometimes just appear on the screen, but he never told us how he did it. Now I know and can be at least half as fast and do not have to pause and rewind so often.

I also learned about multiple cursors. No more cut-and-paste ad nauseum. It’s the little things! Oh and command-slash to comment out the easy way. And command-shift-D to copy what you just typed infinitum. Also the lorem-tab shortcut. Splendid.

I have been hopping back and forth between Sublime, Atom, Brackets, Visual Studio Code, but for the time being I am kinda locked in to Sublime because that is what he is using and I am really liking the time-saving shortcuts. Now all I have to do is make sure my packages and user settings are synchronized between my two computers. Going to a Sublime installation that does not have my settings is a sobering experience. Gotta do everything by hand again. Bleh!

The other new thing I learned is forms. I won’t say I haven’t been taught forms before. I did learn about forms last year in a Coursera course, but I didn’t get it. I tried so hard on the assignment to recreate what they wanted and it was never right. This time I got it and was able to recreate everything. There were a couple things I missed, like my placeholder text was slightly off, but I got the concept; I just didn’t read the placeholder closely enough.

I understand tables better too.

In a CSS uint I have learned the word ‘octathorp‘. I bet you have no clue what that means. (I sure didn’t.) Look it up.

He makes heavy use of the Mozilla Developer Network pages (MDN) and encourages us to do the same. I had glanced at them once or twice before but I had no idea the depth to which they go and how useful they can be.

I’ve been peeping the gitter rooms for the course and it is indeed amazing how many new people start this course everyday. I intend to be one of the many who finish it as well. (A lot of helpful people in the gitter rooms as well which is great. Just as good as the FreeCodeCamp and Odin gitters.)

On a side note, I found my next challenge for after #100DaysOfCode. I mean I could just do #301DaysOfCode or a redux of #100DaysOfCode but as I intend to be looking for a job as a scrum master at that time I won’t do that. I think I’m going to start the 100 Day Deep Work Challenge to really focus on building something or learning something (like Kanban mastery or a deep dive into Agile and/or Scrum). I will save that for another post, but to read more about it you can check out James Willet’s blog.