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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 bsklaroff »

eat wrote: post #152

These comments are infuriating, but not unexpected. So many people who have likely wasted their last 115 days attempting to find every fault with someone who clearly hasn't. OP: Excellent work, and keep it up. I hope you take the criticisms and disbelief for what they truly are: incontrovertible evidence that you're doing something very right.

If I were Jennifer I'd be flattered by the comments. It must feel great to have produced so much quality work that HN naysayers tell you what you did is impossible after you've already done it.

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

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Post by bencollier49 »

thenomad wrote: post #102
bencollier49 wrote: post #97

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Also doing it out of a paid-for shared workspace. I mean, I love the stuff she's doing, it makes sense that she'd be able to do it working full time, but she must be independently wealthy to be able to afford it.

Or just taking a sabbatical. I know a fair number of people who have retrained at University for another career, for example. Most of them weren't independently wealthy - they'd just saved up enough to be able to afford to go to university for a year. Edit: that's exactly what Jennifer says she's been doing, above - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6098083

Good stuff! Well, it seems to be working.

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

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Post by colmvp »

sivers wrote: post #54

There’s this great story from the book “Art and Fear”, that's very appropriate here: === The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bath…

I remember listening to Ira Glass talk about how terrible he was as a storyteller when he first started, and how the only reason why he got better was because of the real basic idea of keeping at it and increasing his volume of work.

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Post by scott_s »

markdown wrote: post #203
bcbrown wrote: post #198

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That's very helpful, Ed. I recently started a new job, and I've been frustrated that my work output isn't 'perfect' yet. I rationally know that I just need to keep my head down and churn through assignments over time, but it helps to hear that from someone else, too.

http://i.imgur.com/nWcYizP.jpg

Quoth Ira Glass. I wish whoever made that had attributed it - Ira certainly deserves it.

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Post by hkmurakami »

petea wrote: post #210
freyr wrote: post #143

So many hurt egos in this thread. If you think what she's done is impossible, have you ever devoted 70/hrs a week to a personal endeavor for 6 straight months? Would you have the willpower and perseverance to stay committed and focused? Also, these are cool sites, infused with a lot of creativity and a refined aesthetic sense, but it's not as if she's claimed to have written an OS or compiler in 115 days. Much of the…

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 Rails perfectly. She not only grasped to use MVC perfectly, but also organized asset codes perfectly in like 50 days. I forgot…

that being said her little pages are great to inspire a budding web programmer.

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Post by miguelindurain »

DarrenMills wrote: post #215

It's a great way that learning to code can produce a ton of content and experimental innovation. Code Academy (and others) listen up: What if everyone produced content while learning to code?

that's a great idea! It's actually similar to the idea behind duolingo.com People produce translations while learning a language

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Post by akurilin »

Basically, work a lot. Make sure there's always a chunk of work that's new and challenging, a form of deliberate practice. Also make sure there's a chunk of work that's reinforcing what you already know until it becomes second nature. Rinse and repeat. Kaizen.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

petea wrote: post #217
jenniferDewalt wrote: post #150

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I totally agree. This project is meant to be a jumping off point for learning to code. On day 180 I certainly won't be an expert at anything, but I'll have the tools I need to keep exploring.

>chacham15: For example, websites which require back-end technologies generally fall into the latter category. The skills learned in perfecting the former are somewhat different than the skills necessary for the latter. The funny thing is you already knows unbelievable amount of backend code for a beginner. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6099489 )

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