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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

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Post by ars_technician »

k3n wrote: post #50
petea wrote: post #38

I don't know why she has never mentioned someone she worked with at all. I commented about this about her 70 days ago. --- So let's see her repository ( https://github.com/jendewalt/jennifer_dewalt ). This girl not only became a competent front end developer in 100 days, but looking at the Gemfile, she knows how to use capistrano, redis, capistrano, paperclip, omniauth and devise? She knows the best practices for Rai…

> Really? Is Hacker News this gullible? Not so gullible so as to take to heart what you're saying, considering that you created your account solely to deride her. Here we are, 70 days after your account was created, and yet you've only posted 1 comment that wasn't negatively criticizing her? And your only argument is a copy/paste of your original complaint from 70 days ago, all based off of source-control introspecti…

Your comment is an ad hominem. Address what he said, not his intentions or account history.

Re: After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder

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Post by hnriot »

enraged_camel wrote: post #147
GuiA wrote: post #7

This is fantastic. Especially inspiring to me, more than the fact that she learned how to code, is the fact that she dove into something that she had no background in, and after 180 days she came out with a solid understanding of the basics of programming; enough to do stuff on her own (and, combined with her graphic design/illustration skills, probably enough to do freelance webdev or get a junior level position in…

There are two type of people in life. The first type graduates from college and their learning stops for the most part. They say to themselves, "well, I studied for four years and got a job, now it's finally time to sit back and relax." So they put in their regular 9-5 and then come home and waste their lives away by watching TV shows and playing video games and going out and getting drunk on weekends. Essentially, t…

The world isn't full of binary people. There are lots of types of people in the world, and pigeon-holing any of them doesn't help them or you.

Re: After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder

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Post by ars_technician »

kens wrote: post #196
fein wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been a pretty hardcore PHP guy for 3 years now, and know exactly how long it would have taken me to do all of this: probably 200 days on my own. My biggest issue is stuff like this. Take a look at the JS from day 1-8, then look at day 9. Day 8: http://jenniferdewalt.com/more_drop_shadow.html Day 9: http://jenniferdewalt.com/bouncing_ball.html That's a pretty massive jump in coding proficiency in a delta of one d…

I know I shouldn't even get involved here, but I looked at day 8 vs day 9 very carefully and day 9 clearly builds on day 8 (e.g. the disableSelection code is carried over). The indentation that bothers you is feature testing code cut-and-paste from http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.cssHooks/ . The additional JS code for the ball animation is totally reasonable for someone to learn and implement in a short time. TL;DR: the…

TL;DR; people make whatever justifications they want from the code to support their stance.

Re: After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder

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Post by meerab »

a3voices wrote: post #166

If a man did this, would it generate the same publicity? I am genuinely wondering, I'm not trying to troll.

I didn't notice person was women until I started reading posts in HN. Why bring gender when others are discussing method of learning?

Re: After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder

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Post by Tycho »

I found learning to code a little like putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle. You can grab one tile and study it very carefully, but it’s not going to tell you very much about where it goes or how the whole puzzle looks. You’ve got to start collecting a bunch of tiles and piecing them together for you start to get the big picture.

This is quite interesting. I think I do this sometimes. When I started working in finance and I remember getting really confused about how people use the word 'exposure'. Looking back it feels like I obsessed too much over one piece of the jigsaw.

Re: After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder

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Post by ars_technician »

lnanek2 wrote: post #146
petea wrote: post #38

I don't know why she has never mentioned someone she worked with at all. I commented about this about her 70 days ago. --- So let's see her repository ( https://github.com/jendewalt/jennifer_dewalt ). This girl not only became a competent front end developer in 100 days, but looking at the Gemfile, she knows how to use capistrano, redis, capistrano, paperclip, omniauth and devise? She knows the best practices for Rai…

I don't think you can determine knowledge of things like Paperclip like this by looking at a repo. I used Paperclip once. Just follow a tutorial. Boom. Done. Looking at my repo you'd assume I just knew it too. Like others have brought up as well, women are even more likely to get help from others than guys who think they have to do everything themselves for better or worse, so there can be live tutors involved as wel…

>so there can be live tutors involved as well.

I think that's the insinuation here.

Re: After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder

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Post by djvu9 »

This reminds me of a recent story on China's twitter alike website. A girl (actually a model) decided to start learning python. She kept posting progress, asking questions and sometimes a photo of her. A ton of coders followed, gave advice and answered the questions everyday. One month or two later the girl became someone's girl friend. He is probably the only non-coder guy among those followers.
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