The latest articles on DEV Community by Andrea Estrada (@andreaestradafranco). https://dev.to/andreaestradafranco https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F319594%2F5a94ea45-df9c-4a1a-ac16-5c625b7c4fc0.png https://dev.to/andreaestradafranco en Andrea Estrada Mon, 20 Jan 2020 21:14:43 +0000 https://dev.to/andreaestradafranco/new-found-passion-pt-2-47c9 https://dev.to/andreaestradafranco/new-found-passion-pt-2-47c9 <p>Recap:</p> <p>"The problem was that the exhaustion seemed to kill this new found passion for coding, and I did not open my laptop for weeks. Why couldn't we just stick to the beautiful HTML &amp; CSS like any healthy human being? Why did we have to dive into JS when life was so much easier without it?</p> <h2> After a few weeks of rest I kept thinking about coding, but what's coding without coding?" </h2> <p>That's how my 2019 ended.<br> The year is now 2020 and I am back at coding class!!!<br> We went back to the beginning, but this time we knew the basics so we started diving deeper, and I am loving it.</p> <p>I have heard the phrase "let it marinate" many times, and it seems like it finally worked for me. Apparently, staying away from coding for a few weeks did it's trick. My brain feels refreshed and coding has become one of my favourites daily activities.</p> <p>I do rest when I need to, but I keep feeling like everything is possible if I just sit for a few minutes to play with VS Code, so I do it and I am having fun.</p> <p>What's next? JavaScript. There's no way around it, but I have a new found confidence, and I am ready for the challenge. </p> <p>Off to read "Eloquent JavaScript, chapter 1" - Chao!</p> html css coding learning Andrea Estrada Sat, 18 Jan 2020 06:21:27 +0000 https://dev.to/andreaestradafranco/new-found-passion-2cie https://dev.to/andreaestradafranco/new-found-passion-2cie <p>Less than a year ago I started learning about coding, HTML &amp; CSS with a terrific group of young people, and everything was fine until we got to the wondrous JavaScript. I'm not saying everything went down down (in Chile we repeat words to emphasise something), but it seemed like my brain lost power and suddenly I felt like it was impossible to learn one more word! OK, things went down, but very slowly.</p> <p>I was so excited about memorising new concepts, typing "var = something something, console.log("whatever")" and when the code worked it was an adrenaline rush like no other. But my classmates and I started experiencing a quiet frustration when the problems seemed impossible to solve and our faces had that "undefined" look for long minutes. I kept experiencing the lack of answers in my brain and one day I realised I couldn't do it anymore. That same day I learned it was the last day of classes. I felt a HUGE relief.</p> <p>The problem was that the exhaustion seemed to kill this new found passion for coding, and I did not open my laptop for weeks. Why couldn't we just stick to the beautiful HTML &amp; CSS like any healthy human being? Why did we have to dive into JS when life was so much easier without it?</p> <p>After a few weeks of rest I kept thinking about coding, but whats coding without coding? ...to be continued.</p> html css coding learning