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I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115

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Re: I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115

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Post by franze »

ultimatedelman wrote: post #27
wellingtons wrote: post #13

I have to ask: How on earth do you find the time to do this? As much as I'd love to do this in order to get my hands dirty on web development and out of systems, I can't ever fathom having the free time available every day consecutively. I mean, for someone "learn(ing) to code" on Day 1 and by Day 15 doing "Dropping Boxes", it just seems a little far fetched. Obviously you have had a good portion of coding experience…

also, you built MS Paint on day 39. again, shenanigans.

if you look at the source code, yeah it's something even a beginner can hack together (if she follows a tutorial) http://jenniferdewalt.com/js/pixel_painter.js

Re: I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115

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ultimatedelman wrote: post #19
wellingtons wrote: post #13

I have to ask: How on earth do you find the time to do this? As much as I'd love to do this in order to get my hands dirty on web development and out of systems, I can't ever fathom having the free time available every day consecutively. I mean, for someone "learn(ing) to code" on Day 1 and by Day 15 doing "Dropping Boxes", it just seems a little far fetched. Obviously you have had a good portion of coding experience…

seconded. day 46 you wrote a snake game using canvas manipulation? i call shenanigans.

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Re: I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115

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Post by kurrent »

ultimatedelman wrote: post #19
wellingtons wrote: post #13

I have to ask: How on earth do you find the time to do this? As much as I'd love to do this in order to get my hands dirty on web development and out of systems, I can't ever fathom having the free time available every day consecutively. I mean, for someone "learn(ing) to code" on Day 1 and by Day 15 doing "Dropping Boxes", it just seems a little far fetched. Obviously you have had a good portion of coding experience…

seconded. day 46 you wrote a snake game using canvas manipulation? i call shenanigans.

view the source for her snake game you'll see it's actually not that unlikely: http://jenniferdewalt.com/js/snake_game.js

following a few tutorials after a google search for "create snake game canvas javascript", it actually seems very likely:

http://css-tricks.com/learn-canvas-snake-game/

http://thecodeplayer.com/walkthrough/html5-game-tutorial-mak...

Re: I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115

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Post by franze »

ultimatedelman wrote: post #19
wellingtons wrote: post #13

I have to ask: How on earth do you find the time to do this? As much as I'd love to do this in order to get my hands dirty on web development and out of systems, I can't ever fathom having the free time available every day consecutively. I mean, for someone "learn(ing) to code" on Day 1 and by Day 15 doing "Dropping Boxes", it just seems a little far fetched. Obviously you have had a good portion of coding experience…

seconded. day 46 you wrote a snake game using canvas manipulation? i call shenanigans.

if she follows a tutorial it's quite simple https://www.google.com/search?q=snake+game+js+tutorial&pws=0...

Re: I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115

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Post by [deleted] »

franze wrote: post #31
ultimatedelman wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

also, you built MS Paint on day 39. again, shenanigans.

if you look at the source code, yeah it's something even a beginner can hack together (if she follows a tutorial) http://jenniferdewalt.com/js/pixel_painter.js

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Re: I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115

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Post by jenniferDewalt »

wellingtons wrote: post #13

I have to ask: How on earth do you find the time to do this? As much as I'd love to do this in order to get my hands dirty on web development and out of systems, I can't ever fathom having the free time available every day consecutively. I mean, for someone "learn(ing) to code" on Day 1 and by Day 15 doing "Dropping Boxes", it just seems a little far fetched. Obviously you have had a good portion of coding experience…

Just before I started the project, I looked around the internet for some resources to see what I was getting myself into. There are so many awesome places to get information out there. Stack Overflow, the Wikipedia, demos, tutorials, documentation. I spend about 10 hours a day working on the project and the vast majority of that time is me digging through those amazing resources.

Re: I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115

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Post by kylelibra »

ultimatedelman wrote: post #19
wellingtons wrote: post #13

I have to ask: How on earth do you find the time to do this? As much as I'd love to do this in order to get my hands dirty on web development and out of systems, I can't ever fathom having the free time available every day consecutively. I mean, for someone "learn(ing) to code" on Day 1 and by Day 15 doing "Dropping Boxes", it just seems a little far fetched. Obviously you have had a good portion of coding experience…

seconded. day 46 you wrote a snake game using canvas manipulation? i call shenanigans.

I'd be interested in a breakdown of how long each page took to build.

Re: I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115

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Post by ultimatedelman »

apalmer wrote: post #30
ultimatedelman wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

seconded. day 46 you wrote a snake game using canvas manipulation? i call shenanigans.

I definitely see your point, but from her description she spends 10 hours a day on this excersize. I could see that level of progress given those constraints, 10 hours a day every days for a month and a half is insane dedication. On the other hand that level of dedication seems to indicate that apparently she has some kind of OCD, no disrespect just wild speculation.

i'm not saying that this feat of creating 180 websites in 180 days is impossible. it's highly improbable and takes a very unique mix of dedication, intellect, funding, and, well, nothing better to do for half a year, but that's for someone with a background in coding. my beef is that this person is claiming to come from a completely non-programming background and has not read any books or taken any courses. i don't care if you spend 24 hours a day coding, you can't write a program as complex as MS Paint in canvas in a month if you've never written a line of code in your life. There are just too many intermediate steps missing and progress is just too fast.

I would love to be wrong about this, but seeing as I've been doing this for a really long time, this just smells funny to me.

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