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Days 26-35

Erica L. (she/they) — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 20:33:34 +0000

Days 26 - 35

Day 26, July 5, 2020

Python: I did all the lessons on graphs and asymptotic notation. I began learning about recursion in Python.

Color Design: I decided to take a break from really "coding" and do Codecademy's course on color design. I only have access to pro features through July 24, so I figure I should get as much out of it as I can.

Day 27, July 6, 2020

Color Design: I finished this course. It was pretty useful. I understand using colors in web design a bit better now.

Python: I started Codecademy's course on statistics in Python and did more recursion exercises.

Day 28, July 7, 2020

Python: finished the recursion exercises. Started learning data analysis with Pandas.

Day 29, July 8, 2020

Python: Did the exercises on function arguments. They were super helpful. Then began lessons on files in Python.

Day 30, July 9, 2020

Finished the file exercises, thus finishing the Python 3 course!

Day 31, July 10, 2020

Doing HTML/CSS projects on Codecademy.

Day 32, July 11, 2020

Did some more HTML/CSS stuff on Codecademy. Did a really simple project of coding "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall" in JS. I constantly forget the most obvious things, like calling the dang function!

Day 33, July 12, 2020

Going back and forth between CSS and JavaScript lessons on fCC.

Day 34, July 13, 2020

Did a bunch of CSS lessons on fCC, including ones about positioning, animation, accessibility and grids -- all things I need lots more work on, since I'm not great at them!

Day 35, July 14, 2020

fCC Tribute Page project (https://codepen.io/ericaleff/full/dyGqNqV)

fCC Survey Form project (https://codepen.io/ericaleff/full/rNxZGjr)

Days 20-25

Erica L. (she/they) — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 19:41:11 +0000

Day 20, June 27, 2020

I'm not sure if I should "count" this day, but I am. I didn't really work on any of the coding projects I've been doing. Instead, I decided to get back into an internet hobby I've had on and off for more than half my life. This included spending a few hours working with HTML, PHP and CSS. I still don't totally understand how PHP works... like how you can just change .html to .php and PHP can start working. I'm happy about it because it makes things easier, I just don't understand it. I'm thinking about ways I could build similar websites using JavaScript. I'm sure it's possible!

Day 21, June 28, 2020

Today I worked on a few of fCC's functional programming challenges. I took a few days away from them and suddenly they seem less scary and confusing! They're still a lot harder than other exercises, but that's good. I feel like I'm getting a better grasp on the methods that have been confusing the hell out of me this whole time (like map, reduce, filter, etc.). Tomorrow I'm hoping to get back to my earlier days of #100daysofcode where I worked on Python and JavaScript.

Day 22, June 29, 2020

Python: I did the first few exercises on min-heaps.

Day 23, July 2, 2020

I missed a few days. :(
Python: I did more min-heaps exercises.

Day 24, July 3, 2020

I started reading Automate the Boring Stuff with Python. I've been mostly skimming the beginning intro Python parts except for the exercises so I can get to the automation parts.

Day 25, July 4, 2020

I did a few projects from Automate the Boring Stuff, but realized that the actual automation projects, while cool, aren't really going to help me.

Day 19

Erica L. (she/they) — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 01:48:34 +0000

June 26, 2020

JavaScript

JavaScript30 Day 12 - Key Sequence Detection (changing a website when a secret code is typed)
Began "How to build an HTML calculator app from scratch using JavaScript" on fCC

Python

I skipped the last few conceptual lessons on hash maps because it wasn't helping me at all. I'm going to try to figure out things as I go along and go back to those lessons as a reference. I did the Blossom project, but I need to really see how this is used to understand it better. I did the exercises on trees which makes a lot more sense to me, so that's good. I then did the CYOA Wilderness project, so it makes even more sense to me since I'm so obsessed with interactive fiction. Next up is heaps, which look like reversed trees?

Days 17 & 18

Erica L. (she/they) — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 02:10:55 +0000

I totally forgot to post about what I did yesterday!

June 24, 2020
I did Codecademy's lessons on queues and began learning about hash maps. I also did a couple of fCC exercises on objects.

June 25, 2020
I did JavaScript30's lesson Custom HTML5 Video Player. On Codecademy, I'm still learning about hash maps. I'm finding it all really confusing (I'm not a huge fan of a bunch of text-only lessons without exercises) so I'm going to need to do something else to understand it.

I started fCC's exercises on functional programming but got pretty confused and stopped for the day!

Day 16

Erica L. (she/they) — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 02:11:55 +0000

June 23, 2020

Python
I started by finishing Codecademy's Veneer project that I began last night. For the first time, I felt like I really understood Python classes. I was able to complete most of the first 20-something steps without needing to search for help.

I learned about nodes and linked lists in Python. It reminds me a bit of TiddlyWiki. I'm not totally sure if that's an apt comparison, but it seems similar. I don't really get what nodes and linked lists can be used for yet, but I'm assuming there'll be a project soon that will make it clearer.

I completed the Towers of Hanoi stacks project.

JavaScript
I also went back to freeCodeCamp to do some JavaScript exercises. I'm on objects right now. I'm taking a break for the day because seeing "prototype" and "Object.create" is about to give me a migraine!

Days 1-15

Erica L. (she/they) — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 15:27:44 +0000

I'm not loving the 100 Days of Code Github log format, so I figured I'd move my progress over here. Here's the first 15 days of my log:

Day 15: June 22, 2020

Today's Progress: Python: Classes lessons, Basta Fazoolin', Pokemon Master (Codecademy); JavaScript: some exercises (freeCodeCamp)

Thoughts: Codecademy was down for a lot of the day, so I went back to fCC to do some JavaScript exercises.

Link to work:

Day 14: June 21, 2020

Today's Progress: Python: Classes lessons (Codecademy)

Thoughts: 2 weeks down and I've definitely been coding less and less. Still over an hour, but not as much as before. Like I said yesterday, I hope I'll be able to do a lot more again soon.

Link to work:

Day 13: June 20, 2020

Today's Progress: Python: Hurricane Analysis challenge project; JavaScript: Shift to Select Multiple Checkboxes (JavaScript30)

Thoughts: I've been slowly tapering off coding and I'm trying to undo that!

Link to work:

Day 12: June 19, 2020

Today's Progress: Python: Games of Chance challenge project, Scrabble, began working on Hurricane Analysis challenge project

Thoughts:

Link to work:

Day 11: June 18, 2020

Today's Progress: Python: rest of Carly's Clippers, The Boredless Tourist, Thread Shed, Censor Dispenser

Thoughts: No JS second day in a row. Got too... excited, I guess, doing Python? I didn't feel like stopping.

Link to work:

Day 10: June 17, 2020

Today's Progress: Python: a few lessons and half of Carly's Clippers

Thoughts: Didn't do as much as I normally would (and had to postpone a day of JavaScript30) because I got home pretty late from a client meeting. Lawyer life.

Link to work: n/a

Day 9: June 16, 2020

Today's Progress: Python: Len's Slice; JavaScript: Console Tricks (JavaScript30)

Thoughts: Learning more things that can be done with the console is really useful.

Link to work: Array Tricks

Day 8: June 15, 2020

Today's Progress: Python: a few Codecademy lessons on lists; JavaScript: Fun with HTML5 Canvas (JavaScript30)

Thoughts: I'm hoping to do a lot more tomorrow!

Link to work: Fun with HTML5 Canvas

Day 7: June 14, 2020

Today's Progress: Python: Codecademy lessons (control flow, lists), Sal's Shipping, Python Gradebook; JavaScript: Array Cardio Day 2 (JavaScript30), also some Exercism exercises

Thoughts:

Link to work: Array Cardio Day 2

Day 6: June 13, 2020

Today's Progress: Python: Getting Ready for Physics Class; JavaScript: Type Ahead (JavaScript30)

Thoughts:

Link to work: Type Ahead

Day 5: June 12, 2020

Today's Progress: Flex Panels (JavaScript30)

Thoughts: I did even less today. I'll do more tomorrow!

Link to work: Flex Panels

Day 4: June 11, 2020

Today's Progress: Python: Lovely Loveseats (Codecademy), more Python lessons; JavaScript: Array Cardio Day 1 (JavaScript30)

Thoughts: I didn't do as much today as previous days. I am happy about doing the Array Cardio exercises because I often get confused by functions like reduce() and map(). It's good to get more practice!

Link to work: Array Cardio Day 1

Day 3: June 10, 2020

Today's Progress: Playing with CSS Variables & JS (JavaScript30), Build a To-Do List (Enlight)

Thoughts: I loved making this to-do list app and customizing it just a little. I'm excited to work on actual web apps.

Link to work: CSS Variables, To Do List

Day 2: June 9, 2020

Today's Progress: JavaScript CSS & JS Clock (JavaScript30), began learning Python on Codecademy, first 3 levels of Plant Your Code

Thoughts: Python feels so weird. I'm constantly about to put a semicolon at the end of a line before I realize, nope! Plant Your Code is fun but 1.3 killed me for some reason. I even took notes about methods that work on arrays and still couldn't figure out how to do it. I probably spent more than an hour doing it over and over until finally it came out right!

Link to work: JavaScript CSS & JS Clock

Day 1: June 8, 2020

Today's Progress: JavaScript Drum Kit (JavaScript30), Codecademy Natural Language Processing Bag-of-Words Language Model, Tf-idf & Word Embeddings

Thoughts: I'm really enjoying learning about NLP but I clearly need to learn at least some Python to make it easier.

Link to work: JavaScript Drum Kit