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Here's looking at you, Mouse.

This my coding practice blog.

I have a penchant for blogs.  This one is to track my coding practice and try to keep myself motivated to code.

My plan is to work through freecodecamp and learn Javascript that way.  After that, I'd like to learn Ruby, although I haven't looked into how I'll learn that yet.

I would like to learn to code for free, or as cheaply as possible.  I've looked into coding bootcamps (and continue to browse them) but I find them expensive and a little bit scary.  Not sure I'm ready to kill myself learning to code.  I'd rather learn at a sensible pace.  Although if I lose my job and go on unemployment, while looking for jobs I hope I would spend a lot of time learning to code.

My job is not very secure, and my line of work isn't not the highest paying nor the most challenging.  My job might be ending -- not sure, but the job security is just not there.

I think I can get coding and I'm finding it interesting so far.  I'm liking it.

I also like that the career offers a lot in the way of pay, benefits, and often flexibility (working from home, nomad life, lots of pto, etc.).

Learning to code would also give me the skill to be able to build my own website or app, if I want.

So far I've done up to lesson 112 in freecodecamp.  It only took about 5 hours.  I'm tracking.  I coded for 2 nights.  I've learn a little html, css, bootstrap, and now we're on to jQuery.  I'm getting it and think I'll be good at this.  I guess that's why I'm liking it.  I have to figure it out sometimes, but I like that.  They've set up their lessons well.

I'm going to be kinda quiet about this since I want to make some actual progress before I go announcing to the world that I'm changing my career and becoming a programmer.  I have a history of not finishing stuff I start.  I consider it pausing, actually.  I still have plans to get back to my ukulele, other language lessons, and painting project some day.  Also my writing.

I think it'd be fun to include a cat pic with each post, but I'm not going to hold myself to that.  Only if I feel like it in the moment.  I want coding and tracking of coding to be fun, so this is only going to be an if-I'm-feeling-it blog.  (Although it does sound fun to find a cute cat pic for each post.)

It's hot right now.

I've also started listening to Coding Newbie podcast, which is inspiring.  I'm going to try to keep coding every day, if possible.  Sometimes it's hard to keep at it but I feel I need to because of what's going down in my life.  Job might end at end of year.  I need to save up an emergency fund and also build some skills, so I can get a job I like (that hopefully includes coding in it).  It would be great if I could get work as a programmer from home.  Not sure how Sky would feel about that, but I would love it!  I could code in my room with the door closed so I wouldn't bug her.

Next coding sessions scheduled:

Tomorrow, 5am - 7am
Tomorrow, 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Until then,
caro