2 posts

August 21, 2016

Benefits of group learning

Another week flew by and I'm still working on getting a pacman game up and running. There's a great community of developers in Montreal, though, and they often host coding events, like the weekly coffee and code sessions I go to with Les Pitonneux. Thanks to lots of wonderful, patient people I learn a lot about web development and get closer every session to building amazing products that people will love to use. Working with other people is essential if you're trying to learn how to code. If you've thought openly about learning programming, you have already been told to not do it alone. I'm not going to preach about why you need to do it, but I have some advice for when you do find a group of fellow programmers or learners. […4 min read]

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August 16, 2016

Learning how to code

Around this time last summer I started learning how to code. I had a wordpress website and wanted to customize it, then I got sucked into a rabbit hole and haven't really surfaced since. I realized I would only be able to make it so far coding in a box on a website with tutorials, as great as they are, and in the fall I decided to go all in. Now I'm starting my second gig as a "real" web developer and learning as fast as I can. As I go I'm learning as much about learning how to code as I am about coding itself. Here are a few of the most useful things I've learned so far and some tips if you want to get started learning how to code. […4 min read]

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