So many envious comments here, ridiculous. Jennifer, this is really inspiring stuff!
I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115
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#242I wouldn't launch this kind of project without some kind of ace up my sleeve.
I'd either prepare it in advance, vamp it all from the "tutorials," or have some backup code somewhere.
That would be necessary to avoid having a mundane interruption cause the project to fail.
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#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
As far as I can tell this is an account that was created entirely to post negative responses in this thread. How sad. (it was created 1 hour ago and the only comments from the account are negative posts about the article: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=petea ) To me it just confirms what the GP said: plenty of bruised egos in this thread.
I created a new account to avoid precisely people like you psychologizing libelously about who I am. I feel reassured that it was a good idea to create a new account.
It's interesting that you reach so quickly for the adjective "libellous" given the tenor of your comments and the insinuations therein.
And, unlike the subject of the post, you don't even have the courage to stick your identity to your work.
Re: I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115
#244So 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…
So she did some hand waving. So what? It's not a lie to say that she's teaching herself how to code. And at least she's doing something with her time.
Re: I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115
#245Jennifer,
I've skimmed through a handful of your projects and they are all very creative, fun and thoughtful. I'd be excited to see what you could do with d3.js (http://d3js.org/). Check it out if you haven't already!
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#246There’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…
This is a great reason to do what is often frowned upon by us high achieving Hacker Newsers: get a job. I have worked on so many projects in so many jobs that I lost track long ago. But it's always been the same: Get it done, good enough, on time! At first, I was always frustrated that I wasn't delivering product up to my own standards. But a funny thing happens when you do that hundreds (or thousands) of times: You…
I believe in "just do it" and worry about the details later.
However, on the internet, there is a worship of "hard work" that strikes me as emotional more than real.
Hard work is 1/2 of the equation.
The other part is your wiring: intelligence, skill, etc.
Not everyone can do everything.
We can dumb down any task to the point where anyone can do it... but at that point, it's a bubble waiting to pop.
Re: I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115
#247180 iterations of the same website in 180 days and you have a company :]
Re: I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115
#248So 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…
Not gullible, just giving her the benefit of the doubt. It could turn out that she had some guidance, or has worked with people (though not as a programmer) and is smart + good enough memory to osmos some good practices, or took some class a long time ago that stuck better than she thought. Perhaps she had a power up period of non committed grazing and chose day 1 as the for real now point. Or some combination of above. To be honest I don't care. She's done something few can: keeping to a goal when she could easily have slacked on sites like hacker news, completing something not at all trivial, doing it well and sharing it. How long she's been programming wouldn't move my opinion in any direction.
And even if there is more to the story, I still accept her day 1 as valid. My least generous interpretation is she came with at most a scattered modicum of knowledge, gleaned from informal trifling and lacked confidence enough so, that saying she is new is a rounding error compared to how good she will get.
Re: I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115
#249Thanks
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#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 c…
Perhaps she's just really, really smart.