100daysofcode

Day 100 – Made it to 100 Days

So finally, I finished the first round. Yay. Today is going pretty slow for me and I’m just now getting into the studying, but I did manage to work out. Last weekend was my birthday and it was great seeing my family. I studied while I was there but only for about an hour. I came home on Wednesday and have been having a rough week and all I want is just to get through school and get a job already. This isn’t the most exciting post ever but it’s just another day. I have to finish the ‘pry’ video and then attempt the tic tac toe game again. It’s kicking my butt so I think going back to the Rock Paper Scissors game and reviewing would be a good idea. I have a lot of trouble putting all the logic of methods together so this should work. Hopefully.

That’s it for now, I’ll see if I have anything to say for the week.

Day 57 – Quiz, Easy 4 and The Range

This will be short because I’m too tired to really write anything. This week has been pretty busy for me: Monday was spent doing Driver’s Ed, and I aced the test! Tuesday morning I had to take the car into Goodyear to see if they could fix my evil a/c unit in my car that decides to go out on literally the hottest days of the year, days where the temperatures reach over 101 degrees. Turns out, all models from 2010-2015 are affected like this, and it’s something the dealership has to replace. Also my tire pressure light won’t turn off even though the tires are properly filled. What a waste of time. I did manage to do a minimum of 2 hours of that day and the next, even while I started to get sick. It’s weird, I had tooth pain that then resulted in ear pain on that same side, then I felt flu-ish. Despite all of that, I did about 5 and 1/2 hours today!! After about an hour or two of reviewing of Lesson 4, I took the quiz and that was a total of 3 hours. Good Lord my eyes were glazing towards the end, and I was disappointed with my final grade, however I did make tiny progress from my last grade. My second quiz score was a 73 and this one was a 75, so maybe it’s progress? Whatever, I’ll take it. To blow off (literally) some frustration, Vin took me to the shooting range, and despite still feeling a bit sick and tired, I got a better feel for how I’m doing in terms of groups and handling the firearm. My Bersa kicks back hard and it always startles me even when I brace for it. He bought a new .22 called the Firefly and it’s so nice to hold and it’s fun to shoot. It doesn’t really kick at all! It did jam a few times however and it could either be because it’s brand new and needs to break in, or because it’s on the cheaper side. August 25th is the next Concealed Handgun Class so we’re preparing for that as much as we can. Tomorrow I will do my best to log in 6 hours of study time, 4 working on Easy 4 problems and 2 reviewing quizzes or Lesson 5. Easy 4 has been a nightmare for me and I’ve been dreading doing those problems but alas, I cannot shy away from them anymore. I’m reaching the end of 101 (2 lessons away) so fearful of the problems or not, they’ve got to get done. I don’t really know why problems that deal with numbers and mathematical operations are hard for me. That’s it for now, this turned out longer than I thought it would have. Goodnight world!

Round 1 Day 1 (Part 2)

This is the update that I promised I would write. I have forked the 100 Days of Code repo (yay!) and it’s in my local machine! I pushed my first log into it just now, and I’m happy. It’s something at least. Tomorrow I plan to finish the book/Anki cards, then move on to the exercises. I should have it finished so that I could start on the Pseudo-code section again. As the challenge demands, I will come back here to update and push my log to Github. Practice makes permenant as they say. Goodnight ya’ll.

Here’s a link to the log. https://github.com/feliciaiveliz/100-days-of-code/blob/master/log.md

Round 1 Day 1

Today I officially started the 100 Days of Code challenge. I began by re-creating Anki cards for Ruby fundamentals and reread the Introduction to Ruby book in prep. I did that because as I was reading through the Pseudo-Code section in 101, I realized that I had a hard time structuring the code in my head and I was struggling for a very long time to even write pseudo-code. So even though it annoyed me (only slightly), I decided to read the book again and properly write out study cards. I guess this is what circular learning is about. Apparently you can’t really know something too well. At least I’ll have done it/seen it so many times that it’ll become muscle memory at some point soon.

Also created this site today to track down my progress through school and 100 Days of Code. Today I’ve clocked in almost 7 1/2 hours.

I’ll update later with tomorrow’s plans.