DEV Community: Jaewoo Kim

It Was Not My Laziness, It Was My Fear That Stopped Me Moving Forward.

Jaewoo Kim — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 12:45:23 +0000

Today, I didn't feel like learning coding. Just wanted to binge watch silly Youtube videos all afternoon and I bumped into this video about laziness. She said we procrasinate not becuase we are lazy it's because we are afraid. Afraid of failing. And I realized that I was afraid of getting stuck while I write my code. I decided to be brave and here is what I made today.

I just learned basic concepts and basic syntex of React, so what I made is not complicated thing. It is just static web page. But I am still proud of my self.
Here is what I build today

I Enjoyed Buiding My Portfolio.

Jaewoo Kim — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 12:48:01 +0000

Today was my off day and I spent most of time coding. Building witout any instruction. It was my first experience.

I only used html and css to make basic structure of my portfoliio page.

It ejoyed doing that althought I struggled with some flexbox aligning and had to checkback scrimba sessions I previously watched.

It is a small begining but I believe that with enough time and my effort it can be something very special I created.

Joy of creation is something I had been missing out in my life.

You can check out what I made today and give some feedback for improvement. It would be much appreciated for begginner coder.

My Portfolio

My Scrimba Frontend Career Path Journey Goes On.

Jaewoo Kim — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 17:24:12 +0000

Well, I started the journey in January 13th. I am half way on my Fronted Developer Career Path at Scrimba. It's getting harder and more tools are being introduced and all these new information is overwhelming. I started skipping challenges and just watching what instructor does on the scrim. It is maybe better than not doing anything but I don't feel like I am learning. Maybe I am just too obsessed with that percentage bar next to Career Path journey.

I should take it more slowly. I should stop pushing myself too hard.
Take it easy and move on. Don't rush! I say to myself.

If I want to be a web developer, I should enjoy coding. I shouldn't rush but it is true that I am desperate and I am axious becuase I recently quit my job and I only have some savings for living next couple months. I thought I could focus more on learning and practicing programming. Well It feels like work when I go on Scrimba. I should enjoy.I shouldn't rush. Rusihng deesn't make me go forward rather it makes things slower and It's making me want to finish it like I don't wanna do it anymore.

My web dev journey with Scrimba

Jaewoo Kim — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 08:20:15 +0000

I am so glad because I finished "Learn JavaScript for free" course on scrimba.com today. I had learned little bit of programming in my college using MATLAB to make graphs and do calculations but I was not intereted in programming back then because it was so diffucult.

Now almost ten years have past since I graduated college, I am a diffrent person now. I started to get interested in programming languages. First I wanted to make a games instead of playing. I used to play lots of games but now I find no fun in them. It is much more fun making them. I have only followed some tutorials on youtube and I really wanted to get myself on the journy of becoming a web developer or programmer. I tried some tutorials like 'make games using javascript or python and pygame' but it was really difficult so I searched for basic tutorial for javascript but many of them were so boring. I was dozing off watching tutorial videos then I bumped into this amazing video where it let me write the code as I am watching the video. It was Scrimba. The full javascript basic course was free and it was 8 hours long content. It took me 4days to finish them. I would like to do few challenges again because I forget easily. Anyways what I really like about this program is that it let me write a code instead of just laying down the information.
Also I learned every basic things while I am making cool pratical stuff like people counting program, blackjack games, chrome extension.

My next step is taking "The Front-End Developer Career Path" on scrimba starting from the very begining go over html and css to fill up the holes in my memory. I am really thankful for scrimba and for Per Harald Borgen who was an amazing instructor.