Hi everyone :) I am really stoked about this community. It is nice to read about other people different places in the world sharing their journey and supporting one another.
1. What has worked: Splitting a project in small tasks has worked in the part. I was using Asana to just jot down every single thing I wanted to do and tried to arrange it in some order. Now I use Trello mostly, though not to a level where I am really making the most of it. Using the coding community with the #100DaysOfCode on Twitter for instance. I was posting about my progress both on Twitter and my Github profile, and it was actually helpful to acknowledge even the smallest actions, like fixing some typos on a website or deciding of the color palette or whatever. Because when it is written black on white, it takes meaning: you did do something today :)
I made one a sort of fan webpage for a singer that I find fantastic, and I think that my own interest fueled my motivation to see the page completed.
2. What has not worked: I get easily overwhelmed by the amount of different courses, languages, libraries, articles, etc. and it makes me set aside whatever project I am working on and wonder if I should be learning something else, if that's leading me somewhere.
I get excited by a project but can quickly get bored or disinterested again, and have a hard time being disciplined. Long stretches of time between coding sessions are a problem, because I lose the momentum and the motivation.
3. Long-term goals:
I would love find a job in which I use technology to improve society and people's health and well-being. At the moment the direction I am going towards is data science, but I am also interested in smart cities, behavioral science and UX.
4. Short-term goals: Create a tech profile for myself online, by feeding my Github with projects related to data analysis, data science, IoT and more.
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Hi everyone :) I am really stoked about this community. It is nice to read about other people different places in the world sharing their journey and supporting one another.
1. What has worked:
Splitting a project in small tasks has worked in the part. I was using Asana to just jot down every single thing I wanted to do and tried to arrange it in some order. Now I use Trello mostly, though not to a level where I am really making the most of it.
Using the coding community with the #100DaysOfCode on Twitter for instance. I was posting about my progress both on Twitter and my Github profile, and it was actually helpful to acknowledge even the smallest actions, like fixing some typos on a website or deciding of the color palette or whatever. Because when it is written black on white, it takes meaning: you did do something today :)
I made one a sort of fan webpage for a singer that I find fantastic, and I think that my own interest fueled my motivation to see the page completed.
2. What has not worked:
I get easily overwhelmed by the amount of different courses, languages, libraries, articles, etc. and it makes me set aside whatever project I am working on and wonder if I should be learning something else, if that's leading me somewhere.
I get excited by a project but can quickly get bored or disinterested again, and have a hard time being disciplined.
Long stretches of time between coding sessions are a problem, because I lose the momentum and the motivation.
3. Long-term goals:
I would love find a job in which I use technology to improve society and people's health and well-being. At the moment the direction I am going towards is data science, but I am also interested in smart cities, behavioral science and UX.
4. Short-term goals:
Create a tech profile for myself online, by feeding my Github with projects related to data analysis, data science, IoT and more.