Observations on the journey so far

So I am still going through the stuff over at CodeAcademy and feeling really good about it so far... I am working through the JavaScript and JQuery stuff right now. I have finished the HTML and CSS stuff but I expected that to go quickly because I was already fairly familiar with it. What has stuck out at me is that the overall gist of the languages is very similar to what I have done in the past... The concepts are the same, the execution and syntax is the difference. In my eyes this is a good thing for me, I should be able to adapt from one language to another pretty easily.

That said, distraction is a killer... I get distracted and find other things to do every so often, then I find myself missing the process and I go back to it. I suppose this is normal though. Better to do this than to get burned out.

I have also just downloaded and installed GitHub for Windows. I am not sure how I will use it yet or how well it will work for me but I have been told that it is a really good idea to be involved on GitHub. I shall see what happens in time over that.

One thing I am noticing on GitHub is that when I go through the various different projects in different languages, I can understand what they do and how they work, even with languages that I do not know. I am hopeful that is a good sign.

My progress so far from Codeacademy.

First steps

So the C# stuff was a bit overwhelming to start... I am very rusty and just wanted to get back into the swing of things a bit better. So I have started with the HTML/CSS exercises at Codeacademy.

I am already through the first few parts and continuing on through more. I think I have a pretty solid handle on the basics, really this was a good bit of refresher for me as I have not dealt with it in years.