Joey,
Transcript
Hey there, Joey! How's it going, man? It's Keith Hayden just here, giving you a quick update on. Today. What I created today and today was a heavy coating day. Um. You know, I've been going back and forth to do freed code Camp. I think it's probably been like six or seven years now.
I've started it. I've stopped it and a lot of it's been a lot of the bullshit around Ai. And you know, you don't need to learn how to code anymore. And then, also, you know, free code Camp has had. Criticisms as far as, how risk how rigorous it is, you know?
Um, if you've never done it before. It's more of, like, um. In browser tutorials. That. Have you? Learning coding just by making different assignments and projects and things like that. But Um, it can be quite rigorous. It can be a little bit tough. Um, and if nothing else, it just gives you that good muscle memory of, you know, you're actually putting down the code.
And you're, you're learning how to do it. So? After, you know, spending the last several years actually, mainly last year, you know, going with the hype and Vibe, coding and spending a lot of time on social media where people are, like, oh, you don't know, need to learn how to code anymore.
You can just have AI do it, but. I found that I just got tired of. You know, I would make these things with code, and I've made some cool stuff, you know. I made the. Entire. Bookstore on my website. I've made a couple of other tools and experimented with some things, but I always hit that point.
And these projects. You're just kind of stuck, and the ai's sending you in loops and you don't really know what you're doing to fix it. And I just personally don't like that. I don't like being limited by my own ignorance. And so this year has been. If you haven't noticed, this year has been a huge return to just.
You know, one-on-one things are much slower. I've barely using AI anymore. I mean, I do use it. I use it for language learning. I use it for you know. When I get stuck on certain coding problems and things like that, but? Um. Yeah, I feel like this is kind of.
A lost art. If you will of? Knowing how to do things yourself and? I've always been interested in code well, at least in the last five or six years. I got interested in code. I started with 100 days of code challenge, and I did the Odin project, and that was great that that really.
Solidified my confidence that? You know, hey, I can learn how to do this. This is not impossible, you know, because growing up, I was definitely. I went to a school to where I was, like you're either fuzzy, or you're a techie major. And I was definitely on the fuzzy side political science reading, writing that type of thing, and I still have that I still, obviously, I still write a lot.
But. This was a side of me that. Took some Awakening. It took me, like, okay, how can you actually do this and? The cool thing about the day today is that there are more tools than ever to learn how to do this. I mean, a lot of them are free.
I'm using free code Camp. And it's just free. It's just about putting in the time. So? That was today. The three sessions that I did today. We're focused on just going through the curriculum and. Um, I'm not just doing everything in the browser like? Kind of suggest that you do.
I know enough code to where I can actually go into an IDE, which, if you don't know what an IDE is? It's basically just a text editor. It's like, Microsoft Word, except it's for code. So I can go in there and then. I can push things to GitHub, and I understand how to do all that.
So that's good, because that's giving me extra reps. And it's actually building a portfolio, even though my portfolio is pretty. It's pretty lame at this point. It's just some basic projects, but you never know. You never know. It's good to just have your either stuff out there and have proof of work that's done so.
That was the day man, um. Drop me in line. This is. I'm still very much sticking to this. This one person a day kind of communication. And I like it. I, I like that I'm actually able to talk directly to you. This isn't a mass email. It's just one-on-one.
And if you feel like responding, that's cool. Let me know what you're working on. If not, that's cool, too. But I appreciate you being on the list man. All right, check you later.
Session 1: Coding (35 mins)
fCC - Build a Cat Blog Page
fCC - Build an Event Hub (Lab)
Session 2: Coding (35 mins)
Build an Event Hub
- Ran into issues with pushing to GitHub, had to investigate
- Could be a GitHub server outage?
Session 3: Coding (45 mins)
Semantic HTML Quiz - Done
Working with forms
- Build a Hotel Feedback Form (Workshop)