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My #100daysOfCode Challenge

Ricky White on August 08, 2018

The 100 days of code challenge is becoming more popular by the day. It was started by Alexander Kallaway as a way of forming a habit, one of regula...
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Devin W. Leaman •

Best of luck Ricky!

And thank you for posting this. You're officially the straw that broke the camels back. I've seen too many posts about the #100DaysOfCode challenge but haven't done anything about it. Time for me to take part 😊

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Ricky White • • Edited

I was the same. Let me know when you start and I'll be sure to egg you along, too.

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Wilfredo Pérez •

Good luck Ricky.

I tried this challenge the last year and it's difficult, although I didn't finish I learnt a lot about organizing my time, python and other stuff; I know that this will give you a lot of things. If you will write here about I'll attend the post.

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Ricky White •

Thank you! I'll definitely update my progress here.

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ItsASine (Kayla) •

Have fun!

I've tried doing it in the past, but since I write Javascript tests for 8+ hours a day, I'd end up not wanting to dive into anything different at night. Even just commiting to 30ish minutes a day of something codelike outside of work didn't work since that didn't feel like enough to make progress on anything. And then grad school started, so I had even more excuses and less time.

I'd like to try it again, but I don't think do x for y days works with me. Maybe work on z every week. That way I could cram it all on a Saturday and still feel accomplished despite playing Guild Wars 2 Sunday through Friday.

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Ricky White •

If I coded for a full day I doubt I'd take the challenge either. I wouldn't like need to, either. For me it's about getting some hours in towards my 10,000 hours of mastery.

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ItsASine (Kayla) •

The issue is that I don't feel married to software QA, so it would be nice to branch out and learn more than the Jasmine flavor of Javascript. So I love the idea of learning a skill over 100 days! Especially when at work it feels like there's no new challenge since I only need to know my little framework of one language, so it doesn't feel like 8 hours of progress towards anything skillful.

So I try to do all the things and then I get sleepy and it falls off pretty quick :P

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Ricky White •

"I get sleepy and it falls off pretty quick" -- I know how you feel 😂

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kikoko. •

A really good post!
I like it very much. You have made me want to do #100daysOfCode. I am looking forward to your posts. Thank you.

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Ricky White •

Good luck!

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Rattanak Chea •

I like you write the plan, just like specification. I bet you will go far with project. I star your repo and hope to learn a few things along the way.

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Ricky White •

Thanks you. I hope to not disappoint.

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Raunak Ramakrishnan •

Best of luck, Ricky! Does this challenge mean 100 consecutive days including weekends and holidays? I think having at least 1 rest day every week is necessary for staying fresh/avoiding burnout.

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Ricky White •

Usually it's 100 consecutive days.

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Ben Halpern •

Good luck!!!

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Ricky White •

Thank you, Ben 👍

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Doaa Mahely •

Great decision! I did one iteration of #100daysofcode earlier this year (I finished in July) and it really boosted my confidence as a programmer and taught me a lot of good habits.
Best of luck :)

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Ricky White •

Thank you, Doaa. 😊

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Ricky White •

There are some courses aimed at the #100daysofcode challenge if you wish to use them. They are beginner focused though, normally. A lot also have their own plan for what to build/learn.

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Majse14 •

I need to do this challenge. the point 5 😂