This series of posts will track what I’ve been working on, new things I’ve been learning, and any difficulties I’m encountering along the way. Buckle up!
One of the things I resolved to do this year was spend a bit more time learning to code. Sure, sure, I’ve dabbled in things like PHP and have used MySQL to build some pretty basic websites and tools.
Even with the little I’ve done, I’ve always enjoyed it and have found myself losing track of time while trying to solve some problem or just get this certain thing to work. It reminds me of a similar thing I’ve encountered with the addictive nature of Sid Meier’s Civilization games.
Late last year, I mentioned to a coworker my desire to spend a bit more time learning various techniques and theory. He suggested that if I’m serious, I should really just start trying to tackle some problems and we could go over it together.
The first thing he suggested? I should build a application to solve a Sudoku puzzle.
What??!
As tends to happen, the end of the year got a bit hectic and I put this project on the backburner. When I originally considered it, I was going to try and write it in PHP. However, I recently saw this goofy map of popular programming languages by state and thought, “I’ve never really done anything with Javascript. Maybe I should try that.”
So, that’s what I’ve been doing the last few weeks. Between taking some awesome online courses through Codecademy and Udemy, as well as reading up on various books, I’ve been trying to really get into it.
How am I doing? I’ll try to share my progress in future updates.