My First Coding Vlog!
My Coding Journey (Week 7)
Here we are in the penultimate week of my coding journey!
This week I am trying something a bit different. I have produced a short vlog that gives an overview of my progress on the group project for the Code First Girls Coding Kickstarter course.
The group project is an opportunity to work with others to write code in response to a project brief. It is the first time I have written code with other people, and it has been amazing! Difficult to master, but amazing!
I have teamed up with two brilliant women and we have been writing code for a recipe search app. We started with really big ambitions but we had to scale these down to reflect the limited time available to work on the project (approximately 4 hours of “lesson time”).
We still have a lot of work to do before we present our project to the cohort this coming week, but I think we have done a great job so far!
Project Progress
Watch the video below to find out more about my progress on the group project.
Note: The shared screens show code-in-progress (some of which doesn’t work yet), so please forgive the clunky code and errors! By showing ourselves to be vulnerable, we become stronger!
Plans for Week 8
This coming week is all about the group project. I will be working with my teammates to make the code work as planned, and to prepare our presentation to the cohort.
Once the presentation is over, I will be getting back to my Codecademy Python course. I’m looking forward to it!
My weekly coding articles
Week 1: Hello World
Week 2: The Joy of Learning to Code
Week 3: Coding Like a Mother
Week 4: One Month of Coding
Week 5: All Progress is Good Progress
Week 6: Learning to Code: Practice and Projects
Week 7: My First Coding Vlog!
Week 8: Learning to Code in 8 Weeks
I hope that sharing my own experience might encourage other people (and especially women) to explore coding or other tech topics.
About the Author
Dr Elena Gorman is a UX Designer specialising in User Research. Before changing careers into UX in 2022, she worked as a Project Manager, including for tech-related initiatives, such as the TechUP Programme at Durham University, for The Alan Turing Institute at Newcastle University, and the Creative Fuse North East project at Northumbria University. Elena is also the Co-Founder of Women in Tech North East, a free community of over 800 women and non-binary people who are interested in tech. Elena has a PhD in Theology from Durham University and has published research on female martyrdom in early Christianity.
