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SQL

zed — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 00:50:43 +0000

Tomorrow starts Week 3 of Flatiron School and for now we're moving away from exclusively Ruby and adding some SQLite in the mix. I'm doing a little weekend learning and went ahead and finished the first SQL lab.

Day 1

zed — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 15:35:22 +0000

Starting Day 1 of concurrent learning of Flatiron School! I'm so excited for this next chapter of life.

feeling = "excited"
def this_morning emotion
return "I am so #{emotion}!"
end
this_morning feeling

I don't know everything, but I'm helping others with what I do know

zed — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 19:41:35 +0000

The surest way to know that I'm learning to code is having the ability to help others when they get stuck. I'm in a Slack group with other Flatiron School students and was able to help another with something I recently completed.

A huge step forward

zed — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 19:17:05 +0000

I just got to the part of the material where I'm learning Enumerables and boy are they so much better than a bunch of while loops.

This feels the same as when in calculus you go from doing integrals by hand to learning the power rule.

Former Apple Genius, left to go on a 16 month roadtrip and am now learning to code

zed — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:56:59 +0000

console.log("Hello, Ya'll")

From 2016 to 2019 I was a Genius at Apple Retail in NYC, Seattle, and D.C. July 2019 I left Apple to go on the roadtrip of a lifetime: 16 months, 36 states, and 2 provinces. When I set out, it was going to only be 3 months but I kept adding more time.

With the advent of the coronavirus, my trip's end date was undefined. 1 month ago, after finishing a phone call with a developer friend of mine I was convinced that my next step was to learn to code.

For the next 5 months I will be learning mainly Ruby and Javascript through Flatiron School's bootcamp. I'm here on dev.to to share my story of coding.