Daily Serving

Time Flies. I left my very first blog post on here to just remind me what a dork I can be and that really for a blog to be a blog, one must actually write and contribute to it. An update to the first post dated in 2011, I am now married with a little girl and we’ve moved to Austin where we pretty much are going to stay. I’m freelancing under my own company, and it’s worked well but now the spawn is getting older and takes less naps. She attends “school” 3 days a week but we’ve decided to put her in full time starting this coming July so I can focus on getting a full time job somewhere. However, I’m really wanting to try something different and coding in Javascript, Angular.js, possibly Swift will be the key to achieving this endeavor. I learned AutoCAD by forcing myself to write down the manual. Yes, you read that right, I wrote the book in a spiral notebook. It forced me to read every word as I HATE reading boring things. But it worked for me and I now have really awesome penmanship. So the purpose of this blog literally is to write down everything I learn each day and to document my progress, frustrations and maybe some little cartoons for fun.

What I’ve already been up to is going through the javascript tutorials on code academy. I’m about 41% through and working on a small game tutorial. So far, the tutorials are jogging my memory quite a bit. I’m not a stranger to coding, but as a designer unfortunately, you don’t get to practice this skill everyday. For some reason, people think designers are all encompassing unicorns who know everything. Jack of all trades, master of none. So this is my opportunity to master something by just doing it every day. Even if it’s only 30 min.

After I’m through with the basics on javascript, I plan on moving on to one of the frameworks. Angular.js in particular. There are so many places to learn this though I’m getting a little paralyzed. While Code Academy is free for the most part, I was considering paying for the tutorials online. Mr. Unsed Genius tells me I’m better off just reading the tech docs and suffering through a project. yay! Mr. Genius is a developer btw and giving me advice on what’s best to learn.