A few days ago I took my Lesson 4 quiz and like I said before, I made a 75, which isn’t wonderful but it’s progress from my last Quiz. Granted, it was only about 2 points higher but still, I’ll take it. Obviously my goal is at least and 80% so I’m moving through the lesson assignments at a snails pace. It’s getting to the point in the lessons where we have to take apart code snippets line by line, letter by letter. It’s easier now for me to look at the code and try to figure out what it will output and return, but it’s more difficult to articulate each line and letter. It even says it when you start the lesson: “Take your time, and go through it all carefully. The goal is to deeply understand it all, not finish the assignment as fast as possible.” Which is easier said than done, but I’m not messing around. Also I’m working on studying consistently throughout the week, at least 3 hours but no more than 6. If I want breaks, I take them without shame and then I get back to work and eliminate all distractions. It’s Wednesday and so far the past two days have been going okay. Despite physical pains and waking up so much lately than I want to, it still gets done. Working with nested collections and articulating problems is tricky, so it’s very important to understand it all.

Aside from Ruby, I’m learning German. It’s a beautiful and fun to learn language. A lot of the words look like English so it’s not as difficult to pick up then when I tried French. Now that Vin is doing it too by learning Spanish, I have some competition. That’s exactly what I need to keep going and stay on top of it.