What I’m doing now

Learning about programming! Via the open curriculum at App Academy.

So far I’ve covered:

• HTML and CSS
  • The CSS layout stuff is pretty handy once you’ve learned how to use it. CSS Grid and Flexbox are incredibly useful for laying stuff out.
• JavaScript
  • Not amazing yet, but I can create pretty simple scripts. The eventual next step will be learning frameworks like Express and React.

Besides App Academy, I’m trying to read books about CS in order to give myself a better background on the topic. I just read this rather old book, Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, while I was in CDMX, and now I’m switching between the newest (JS) edition of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs and Grokking Algorithms.

In the past I’ve taken several stabs at “becoming a programmer,” but I’m hopeful that this time I’ll be able to make something of it. Today marks a month since I started learning.

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