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The Close of Fellowship 15 and New Adventures
I’m officially a software engineer! No really, I have a certificate and everything. And a sweet red graduation robe–er, hoodie.
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Doodles About Lists in Memory
For months, I’ve been meaning to copy one of my earliest Hackbright lecture doodles to my computer: a fun lil zine-ish comic about lists. Now that I have a bit more free time (and some inspiration courtesy of SF Zine Fest), I finally did the thing.
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Crafter's Closet Version 0
My Hackbright project is done! Mind if I just gush for a minute?
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Halfway Through My First Project Sprint
At Hackbright, we’re halfway through our first sprint of project time. We’ve all spent the last two weeks working like crazy to get a minimum viable project off the ground, and as part of our homework this past weekend, we were asked to take some time to reflect.
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Coding Bootcamp (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Failure)
Failure is frustrating and often feels unfair, but it’s also one of the most effective teachers I’ve ever had, both in life and in programming.
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Templating and Interfacing Web Pages is Awesome
After a whirlwind week of HTML, CSS, and Flask, I know roughly how to make web pages talk to each other. Woohoo! Definitely still have a lot to learn, though. I also hit some areas of programming that I just don’t grok intuitively, and grappling with them has been…interesting.
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Doodles for Comprehension
I can’t listen to lectures (or meetings, for that matter) without doodling if there’s a pen and paper in front of me. Writing things down is really helpful, though, and whenever I make a good doodle that embodies a new concept, I definitely remember it more effectively.
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On Explaining Well
Over the last several days, I’ve been learning about and reaping the benefits of improving my ability to tell people just what the heck I mean.
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Python Is Kind of Beautiful
There. I said it: a programming language is beautiful. Now I’m one of those people. I’m okay with this.
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Two Days In
I’m two days into the engineering fellowship at Hackbright Academy, and while a lot of the computer science concepts have been overall a review, I’m still learning a ton.
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My First Post!
I’m testing out my new GitHub blog setup with Jekyll. Since I’m about to learn a ton of Python, let’s start with a little Hello World program. It is tradition after all.
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