Week One - General Recap

In general I've faced some setbacks and frustrations for pretty much the latter end of the week. I sort of expected that for a couple of the days. It's just learning what I need to know to ask the right questions and how to learn in coding.

It's a weird thing to that I need to learn how to learn. I have a BA, MPA, lived in another country...and I need to learn how to learn for coding. It's a bit remarkable.

I can say the biggest setbacks for work has essentially been the following: finding time. It's not a lack of a desire to do the work. It's just finding time. I'm not spending 20 hours this week watching television. It's just basic day to day things for a family life.

If I didn't have a toddler it would give more time. If I wasn't married I would have more time. If I didn't have dogs I would have more time.

I'm not blaming my family at all for the lack of time, I mean I'm doing this for them, it's just learning to adapt our family life to me doing this course work. It's rough.

Yesterday I spent three straight hours working on code and had no idea how late it was. It's just plugging away and wanting to get the stuff done.

I'm learning though and I feel as though I'm getting it.

Struggles:
Friday was...terrible. So basically the way our schedule works is the following:
Monday - Thursday:
Morning we review previous nights reading and a group activity (usually a pairing)
Midday lunch
Afternoon we work on our daily activity
Evening we read for the next day

Friday:
Morning stand-up
Morning huddle
Lunch
Daily activity

So basically Friday is a catch up day for all the weeks daily activities and then start on the weekly project.

My latest daily activity was acceptable so I didn't have to play catch up. So I looked at the weekly project and got start. Went through lunch struggling with the code. Then I deleted it as I hated it. Then I spent more time with the code and got to the same wall a lot faster with better code. Then I deleted it. Then when both groups were supposed to close down and go do social hour I, along with several others from our cohort, stayed behind. At this point I said screw it let's just put it on a whiteboard to do a better markup. I worked with a couple other students to do a pretty thorough markup and left feeling pretty good about it.

Saturday I built up the markup...and then deleted it. Originally for the markup I put all my images in CSS and used <div> for practically every image. Then I said screw it and made unordered lists and used CSS for sizing. Worked a lot better. But I deleted a LOT of code.

Understood:
Primary axis and cross axis. I finally finally get it. The problem is when I apply a flex direction I forget what axis its on.

Looking forward:
Practice. Doing this weekly project gets me a ton of practice and that's desperately needed.

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