After only two lessons worth of JavaScript, I thought that my head was going to explode. I was thinking to myself “Isn’t it too early in my NSS career to have a meltdown already?” It’s becoming increasingly clearer to me that I’m going to have to put in some serious man-hours in order to be able to absorb and regurgitate this material. It’s time to pull out the big guns. Continue reading “JavaScript is Less Scary with Friends”
Straight, No Chaser
It’s the third week of class, and we’ve already managed to cover HTML, CSS, and just began JavaScript last night. If I have to assign my experience here thus far as a metaphor, it would be “straight, no chaser.” There was no soft opening to our JS lessons; no “ok, we’re just going to ease into this.” Simply, BANG! And we’re off to the races! I feel like I made the right decision to make friends, and make them early. A few of them came to my aid last night, when I inevitably found myself lost amongst a slew of JS code. Continue reading “Straight, No Chaser”
It’s Ok To Cry
“What the hell have I gotten myself into?”
Those were the words that were ringing through my head at the end of my first “official” day at NSS. For the entirety of the evening, we sat and watched as the Evening Cohort 5 class presented their capstone projects. Continue reading “It’s Ok To Cry”
Catalyst
Back to school, back to school, to prove to myself that I’m not a fool.
I was pretty nervous about going back to school, for several reasons. First of all, I never performed exceptionally well academically. In laymen’s terms, I’m kind of stupid. Well, not stupid per se, but it does take me a little while to catch on. Secondly, I was going back to school for web and software development, which is a field that I’ve always struggled with. Continue reading “Catalyst”