As 2024 gets closer to ending, I have spent way too much time in my head reflecting on where things are going, stuff I need to keep track of every day, and what direction I am going. I realized it has been a long time since I've done any coding. I have done some coding for Coding with Kids by building d games and working on what code to demo to students. But it has been a long time since I have built sometimes fun or learned any new skills.
While I am currently on a break from Coding with Kids, I realized I lost a part of myself that has given me joy and helped make me the best version of myself. I miss that part of myself and want to get back to that version of myself. I want to get back to the girl who was just enjoying the coding journey and full of optimism about what coding would bring.
Objective
Starting today I am going to revisit some of the coding tutorials I have done in the past. These can be Skillcrush, freeCodeCamp, Codecademy, etc. The goal isn't to learn skills I already know. I hope that revisiting these tutorials will help me get back to the best version of myself.
This time around things are going to be different. First, my vision is still a work in progress so I am interested in seeing how coding goes this time around with the way my vision is now. Two, I will try writing a lot more. These posts could be brief summaries of what I learned, a description of what vision was like trying to code, or any other random thoughts I had that day.
I haven't decided if I want to put any work I do on GitHub. I'm still working through other details such as how to build projects. I'm also not out of the woods yet so everything is going to depend day by day how I am feeling. But right now the goal is to simply get started and focus more on the journey than on the end result.
Today's Progress.
Today I decided it was best to go back to the tutorial where it all started: Skillcrush. I took time to rewatch the orientation ("Getting Started") videos. It might seem silly to do this, but it was nice seeing Adda's face, and hearing her voice immediately took me back to 2015 when I started learning how to code.
After reviewing the Getting Started information, it was time to figure out where I wanted to start. Although I started my coding journey with web design, this time around I decided to start with HTML & CSS. Today I finished the welcome section and started to review HTML. I reviewed what HTML is, how to look at code on the web, and added some HTML tags to the text.
This time around I have audio captioning set when I play videos on my Chrome browser. This made it easier to follow along with what Adda was saying. Typing takes me longer these days since I need to double-check what I type a lot more before I publish anything and this counts double for creating HTML tags. The hardest part is just seeing the tags. However, I did a pretty good job seeing my tags and getting the right text wrapped in the right tags.
I'm not sure if there are accessibility features for developers to see if they can make their code look look better but I might need to look into it. Overall, I feel pretty good that I was able just to see and fix code despite my vision not beingthe best.
Tomorrow's Plan
I will continue with Skillcrush HTML & CSS. I will be moving to the next lesson HTML for organizing text.
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It's inspiring to see your dedication to revisiting coding after a break. Re-engaging with your passion, even if it's in a different context, is a great way to reconnect with your best self.