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Day 21 – Ruby Problems

It’s been three weeks since I’ve started the challenge!! Yay!! Today I spent 7+ hours doing code stuff. By stuff, I mean watching (rewatching) the problem solving videos for Launch School, for the 3rd time I think. I kept falling asleep the past two days but today I managed to get through both of them, and wrote good notes. Finallllyyy. Now I’m working through the small programs exercises and am excited to start implementing the pedac process. It can only help me, because hack and slash coding makes me feel like I’m running through a forest, on fire, hoping to make it out alive on the other end. It’s ugly.

Day 20 Ruby

Today is the 20th day that I have been coding. I realized that I suck at documenting my progress, except for the daily log that is updated everyday. The whole point of creating this site was to make sure that my progress was tracked somewhere. My thoughts matter! I think. In any case, I’ve made a promise to myself, so not following though would be a huge disappointment.

Doing things willy nilly like i’ve always been is getting on my nerves. Everyone says that I’m too hard on myself, but if I wasn’t, who would hold me accountable for my work? No one is trying to get that career like me, so it’s really up to me.

Anyway, I’ll come back soon to report on new ideas and plans I have. Also, remind me to start adding pictures, for god’s sakes!

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.