Monday, 17 March 2014

Starting my journey


I started my journey back at the beginning of February.

I have always had an interest in computers, computing and computer science but never drew me to pursue it as a career. I choose to be a car mechanic instead. I worked through my apprenticeship to fully qualified then moved into a more administration role.

I have been pondering my career direction for many years, what I want to do, how I can do it etc etc. I have reached a point where being moaned at and dealing with the general public has become very tedious. However it all comes down to one thing, this is what I know and it’s easy to me.

During 2013, I brought a raspberry pi, the $35 computer. It comes with Python preloaded on to it and I thought I’d like to have a go at coding/programming (with ever is down with the kids these days).

I downloaded MagPi through NewsStand for my iPad. I started reading about coding and raspberry pi, all the things and projects that could be done. Then one day I was sat at work and I “googled” “learning to code” and Code Academy was the first that came back. I clicked the link, took me to a website with a console in it, followed these tasks and started to enjoy myself. Code Academy offers many different languages, but I was there for python so I started working through the python course until I got to about 23%. I reached the section of Booleans (hence the blog name) but got very frustrated with it and ended up turning it off. Over the next couple of hours I found myself logging back in.


I was still frustrated with python so I decided I’d try HTML/CSS and was surprised about how easy it was to understand. I flew through the course in 5 days and actually felt like I had achieved something. I was proud of myself and my new skills, I can now write basic HTML and CSS.

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