Why this blog!

About Me and This Blog

Hi, my name is Arthur and I’m not a blogger. Nor am I a coder, really.

But here I sit, writing my first blog about coding.

So how did I get here? If you had asked me 3 months ago, I would not have told you I’d be stateside June 2020. Last year, I joined an a cappella group, the Whiffenpoofs, and took a gap year with a band of Yale seniors who tour over 20 countries performing over 200 shows, all dressed in white tie and tails. We like sharing music and bringing people together. Unfortunately, by now you can probably guess it’s not a very good time — or a responsible time — to be doing exactly just that. At the start of the crisis, one of my mentors suggested I use my last free summer to do something new I find worthwhile, so I decided to enroll in a web development class. Fast forward to today, which marks my third month living in my parent’s house and my third week in Flatiron School!

So, for those who had higher expectations, I did not wake up yesterday morning struck by a mid-quarantine-let’s-be-productive-for-once epiphany. No, all credit goes to my coding camp, where our cohort will present and share these original blog posts as part of the program. (Cue every single one of those “my coding journey” posts on the Interweb eliciting 49.4 million results on Google. Yes, mine is about to be one of them. Welp.) Origin story aside, I do hope to contribute something brief but useful with these few blog posts!

Without further ado, here is my first post!