I just successfully completed Launch School’s course 170 (Web Development), which is the 4th out of 5 courses in the Programming and Back-end Development phase. …

One thing I’ve found helpful in learning new programming concepts is to come up with analogies to other unrelated ideas with which I’m already familiar. …

Today is May 20th, 2017, and I’m nearing the end of the 101 course at Launch School. Flipping back through my journal to May 6th, I read: I feel myself pushing up against frustration, and seeing the weak spots in my mental model of Ruby. Today, I feel pretty confident…