Elementary School

So I discovered Codecademy about a month or so ago and decided to give this coding thing a shot.  The only coding experience I have ever had was some simple HTML classes in the late 90′s and a failed attempt at Basic (or was it C?) back in the mid 90′s.  Wasn’t sure I could tackle this, but to save the embarrassment, Codecademy guides you through the process on their site/platform… for free. They appear to only offer JavaScript at the time of this writing.  Having only been working on this for less than a couple of days, it has been a good primer into coding.  Not exactly sure what I’m really doing just yet, but I’m sure as the lessons come along I will figure it out.

Look! I achieved something!  It’s a bit like checking in on foursquare and receiving a Wino badge.

Some progress…..

I’m lead to believe I’m getting the hang of this.  So far, nothing spectacular to show.  I think I’ll need to do the lessons over again a few times until I remember how things work, and keep practicing.  The problem for me is that I can’t seem to remember, or compile why something needs to be a certain way for it to function.  It reminded me of statistics class.  For the life of me, I couldn’t figure out what I was actually calculating, only to know how to calculate it.  Post statistics class, I found that I started using basic stats in the work place during my tenure in product marketing.  It was only then when I actually understood the power of stats and the story it tells.  Standard Deviation anyone?

Practice, Practice, Practice.