Very good stuff. Don't let up!
After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder
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Re: After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder
#22Congratulations, Jennifer. I really appreciate the lessons learned here. Like my favorite college professor (and I'm sure many others, as it is a fairly popular quote) would say: Sometimes you have something that looks really ugly and gross. You can liken it to having to eat a slimy, bumpy frog. The best way to eat the frog, is just to swallow it. Once you get in the habit of swallowing your frogs, the rest of your d…
If you haven't seen it yet, you'd probably appreciate this (or perhaps this was the inspiration for your comment in the first place):
http://globaltableadventure.com/
Basically, someone doing the cooking thing, but on a weekly basis. She only has 6 weeks left. Pretty awesome site.
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#23Her ability to attract attention was remarkable. She should become a marketer or spokesperson, not a coder.
Your ability to be a dick is remarkable. You should be a mall cop, not a coder.
Careful champ - that was not necessarily a snarky comment. A more charitable reading would be that the andyl thinks that the OP could make more money / have a better career by focusing on what is clearly an intuitive gift that is highly valued in the employment market...
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#24I think the coolest thing about watching the project is that some of the ideas are like, actually good ideas. Maybe not huge ideas, but they're good ideas. I especially like Open Note. I always thought the bottleneck for Jennifer would be thinking of 180 ideas in time to make them into websites, but nope!
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#25I seriously wish I could do this. Does she ever talk about how it's possible for her to afford to do this? 10 hours a day learning sounds great but really isn't feasible for (I'm guessing) a very large majority of people.
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#26Wow, this is the total opposite of me. I just spent weeks setting up the perfect development environment, instead of getting actual work done. I need to rethink the way I work.
Whhen i first started coding, i thought i had to go revisit all my math classes that i had forgotten. Still i have that same problem. When picking up a new api or something, instead of learning just how to use it quickly, i end up trying to learn a lot of its nuances first :S
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#27"The project certainly hasn’t given me a comprehensive understanding of software development, but it has laid a broad foundation for me to jump off of" No it has not, and no it has not. Don't get me wrong A+ for the effort... but it is a very small niche oriented effort. Comprehensive? Watch Rich Hickey talks ( http://www.infoq.com/author/Rich-Hickey ), try reading and exercising data structures (b-tree, rb-tree, bit…
Remember you told me to tell you when you were acting 'rudely and insensitively'? Remember that? You're doing it right now.
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#28"The project certainly hasn’t given me a comprehensive understanding of software development, but it has laid a broad foundation for me to jump off of" No it has not, and no it has not. Don't get me wrong A+ for the effort... but it is a very small niche oriented effort. Comprehensive? Watch Rich Hickey talks ( http://www.infoq.com/author/Rich-Hickey ), try reading and exercising data structures (b-tree, rb-tree, bit…
Not it has not, yes it has. Web development is for many intents and purposes now the equivalent of software development. That there are other areas of interest (embedded, systems software, application development and so on) does not detract from the fact that if you want to do software development web development is more than likely your point of entry and it's a field wide enough and deep enough that you could easil…
+1 to this, while some folks seem rather dismissive of web site design as "programming" (and I did back in the HTML4 days but these days, its very much a program) here is someone who has looked at this particular aspect and poked into a bunch of different areas. And that is all good.
So much better to have 6 months experience building web sites before you say "I'll just make a career in building web sites" :-)
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#29Her ability to attract attention was remarkable. She should become a marketer or spokesperson, not a coder.
I'm curious why you think she should become a marketer? While she's clearly been able to gain attention (a key part of a marketer's job), she has also proven to be a self-starter, capable of learning new, complex things, and can communicate effectively (at least in written word). These are skills and traits that can take you far in any profession, provided you have at least a basic aptitude in the field (which Jennifer clearly demonstrates).
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#30"The project certainly hasn’t given me a comprehensive understanding of software development, but it has laid a broad foundation for me to jump off of" No it has not, and no it has not. Don't get me wrong A+ for the effort... but it is a very small niche oriented effort. Comprehensive? Watch Rich Hickey talks ( http://www.infoq.com/author/Rich-Hickey ), try reading and exercising data structures (b-tree, rb-tree, bit…
What the heck are you talking about? C'mon man...