Starting Fresh at P2PU's School of Webcraft

Starting Fresh at the School of Webcraft

I'm starting fresh with the P2PU School of Webcraft linked over at Mozilla. One of the first challenges is to blog your progress, so here I am.

I'm not giving up completely on Codecademy and I've already signed up for the Parallel Computing course over on Udacity. I need to try something to hone my HTML5 that's a little less frustrating than Codecademy and it's many frustrations.

"YES!"

Nothing else beats that feeling of finally, finally, finally getting something to work. (Especially when it's something relatively simple but completely new to you!) I'll have something post-able soon (hopefully some time tomorrow.)

As a side note, it was great fun letting the littlest one type away in a string in the source file to show her how everything you do in the editor can have a big impact on the screen. Now she can brag that she's been coding since she was six!

First Iteration

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I Can Really Shake 'Em Now

Ok, I'm back, at least.  Still working on the Twist coding.

I took a little hiatus to deal with massive changes at my day job.  I'm picking up again with the Software Testing course on Udacity and trying (again) with Codecademy.  (I'm hopeful that finishing Douglas Crockford's book will help me avoid the wacko problems I was having on that site.)

More will follow soon - back to the keyboard!

Python Learning Links (Brief - It's Finals Time)

Someone on Udacity posted a link for a great website for debugging python code.  :D

MIT's Python Tutorial De-bugger

In related news, Udacity has also posted their course listing for the next hexemester.  Wow - talk about self-editing!  It's going to be tough to choose just one!

Udacity's Courses Starting June 25th

r"[a-z]+(?:-[a-z]+)?"

Wow!

I didn't have enough to study (ha!) so I started two courses on Udacity.com.  We're working on regular expressions, a topic I have heard a lot about but never really learned before.  Wow!!  I don't want to waste any more time posting, so I'll get back to studying.

Wow!

The Wonders of Modern (?) Technology

I've already complained a bit about Wally, my ancient little G4 iBook with half the keys missing.  It makes working on the projects on CodeYear more than a little challenging, so I decided today to try spending a little time on the site at our local libarary.  My local library is absolutely awesome: great collection, great inter-library borrowing and holds system, tons of fairly good computers.

Computers that only run IE 8, which won't run CodeYear.

sigh...