100 Days of Code: Day 17 and Day 18
Day 17: Finally got my car back! My baby is inspected, fixed, and legal again! It’s nice to have a friend that is willing to let you borrow their Cherokee until you car is fixed, but my god I missed my car! It’s like coming home from a long trip to sleep in your own bed! Downside is my stomach didn’t like the Taco Salad I had for dinner so I was in massive pain for an entire day! Anything I ate hurt! Applesauce hurt! Why applesauce? Why?! I did manage to lose about 10lbs in 1 day (water weight I’m guessing) so that’s a positive right?
Day 18: Today I take a step forward to further my coding knowledge. I found a video series that introduces me to ES6/ES2015 and Babel. I figured it was time to bite the bullet and learn the new standard for JS coding since things will be heading in that direction sooner than later. It’s actually not as bad as I thought it would be. The series is a quick overview of what ES6 has to offer, and it seems a lot like C# in a way. I know, I know people are going to say it’s more like Java, but have you seen C#? And besides, I blocked all knowledge of Java from my brain after my (ugh!) college required class. I hated that class. I just figured out the easiest way to do the upcoming assignments and read manga the rest of the time. Caught up on Naruto that way. ^_^
Anywho, I’m actually glad I have the higher level programming background since a lot of this is making sense. If you would have asked me to look at this a decade ago, I would have run off crying. (Not kidding. I was brand new to coding at the time. And the amount of frustration that led me to crying fits when I couldn’t get my programs to work after hours of trying are too many to count.) But this seems pretty easy to at least try and figure out.
I do like how on the Babel site you can type in ES6 and it spits out the JS equivalent.
It’s times like this I’m glad I’m learning the slimmed down version. The way I’m doing the tutorial series is watching the video and taking notes in a regular notebook (habit from being a History major and it’s easier to look through than using Find on the screen and going through the 20 results for “var”), watch the section again if I’m still confused, then afterwards, try out my newly learned skill on the Babel site. It’s really cool! I think I could get the hang of this.
I have another 6 videos to go, but I’m learning a lot! Looking forward to tomorrow to learn some more. In the meantime, I have anime to watch.
So my dearest readers, stay classy, be awesome, and code on!
