The Joy of AH-HA

I've been living at coding house for exactly two weeks now and I'm still completely in love with it. Its hard. The "homework" assignments keep me up until 2:00 AM or later and I'm cramming  knowledge in my brain like Joey Chesnut at a hotdog eating competition (var hotdog = knowledge, var mouth = brain, var JoeyChestnut = boss_ass_motha_fucka)

And I have moments of frustration when I can't wrap my head around a new concept right away, but the struggle only adds fuel to the wonderfully explosive joy of the AH-HA! moment.

I've had a lot of ah-ha's. I've also had a lot of slow creeping "...ohhhh I get it now"s. And perhaps most rewarding, I've had a lot of "Thanks Jillian, the way you just explained that made me get it."

There are too many places where people try to get out of working hard without even realizing that all they are doing is transferring their effort from doing something that might satisfy them to avoiding doing things and therefore not getting a pay out. No one is like that at Coding House. I love that our house is a community. We all help each other and respect each other and work hard.

I can wait to find out what I'll be capable of this time next week!

Coding Bootcamp week 1

I arrived at Coding House one week ago today, and I am so excited for the next four months here.

This place is amazing! The instructors talk about code like I used to talk about troll dolls when I was twelve. ie. they are passionate, super knowledgable and deliver information in a really engaging way.

My cohort is a community of the most interesting, friendly, and compassionate people I've ever met. Everyone is more than willing to help each other out and are encouraging and excited about the projects.

Its definitely an intense program though. Class runs from 9:00 Am until 8:00PM every day -- with an hour for lunch. And 4-6 hours of homework to complete before class the next day.

TAs stay and help out until at least 11:00PM, so if you get stuck they can give you a push in the right direction.

There have been a couple lessons where I got lost a bit, but the assignments are very good practice of the skills learned that day, and even though I have not completed all of the assignments in full I have learned so much about javascript, keyboard short hand and efficient coding skills. I think my productivity has increased about ten fold in one week.

That being said, I've got to dive back in to it.

Check out my git hub to see what I've built so far.