Day 126: Linked in, The Odin Project Study Group, and Student Blogs

Today I visited the Odin Project study group on Facebook and worked on my Linked in Profile.  I made linked in connections with my fellow students in the study group and I also added links to my blog (this one) and to my GitHub on my linked in profile.

I also looked up blogs made by other Odin Project students, it was a pretty inspiring day, especially reading a certain blog post by one student whose journey was very similar to mine.  He took two years to go from starting studying html and css to landing a position as a developer.  He also, like me, got distracted with studying web design through a lack of an organized curriculum.  He also, like me, enjoyed the Treehouse courses, and then found the Odin Project's structured curriculum to be the next step.  He mentioned that he did quite a few 12 hour days within the process, and on a sample week in his blog he had about 20 hours one week and 30 hours another week.  That means he was doing about 4 to 6 hours a day on those weeks.  That's much more than I've been putting in lately, but he went through the same things I did, for example, of going a whole month or two without doing any studying, and then getting back on track.  It was really great to read his post, but out of respect for his privacy, I won't be posting a link to it.

That said, it was amazingly inspiring. 

I signed up for a website called code wars.  To sign up, you first had to pass two code challenges, but they were really simple.  I'll explore the website further later.

SUMMARY OF CODING SKILLS

Total Treehouse Points: 5,385
Treehouse Points by Subject Matter (Miscellaneous not included): 
HTML:                                663 
CSS:                                1,599 
Design:                            1,193 
Development Tools:            747 
Javascript:                      1,120

Treehouse Ranking (%): "You have more total points than 94% of all students."

Treehouse Badge(s) Earned Today:

Treehouse Courses Completed:
How to Make a Website
HTML
CSS Foundations
CSS Layout Techniques

Aesthetic Foundations
Design Foundations
Adobe Photoshop Foundations
Adobe Illustrator Foundations (66% complete, switched focus from web design to web dev)
Git Basics
Introduction to Programming
Javascript Basics

Codecademy (& other) Courses Completed:
HTML and CSS (Codecademy) 

Books Read or in Progress:
Completed: "Head First HTML and CSS," by E. Robson & E. Freeman
In Progress: "Eloquent JavaScript," by Marijn Haverbeke (On pg 27)
In Progress: "Head First Javascript," by Eric Freeman and Elisabeth Robson (On pg 56)
In Progress: "A Smarter Way to Learn Javascript," by Mark Myers (on pg 155)

My Progress on The Odin Project:

1.  Introduction to Web Development             100% Complete

2.  Web Development 101                                29% Complete

3.  Ruby Programming                                       0% Complete

4.  Ruby on Rails                                               0% Complete

5.  HTML5 and CSS3                                           0% Complete

6.  Javascript and JQuery                                  0% Complete

7.  Getting Hired as a Web Developer                 0% Complete

Hours Spent Coding Today: 3

Total Hours Coding: 582