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Hello and welcome to #CNC2022's "Start Coding" Welcome Thread for Cohort 1!
We're so excited you've committed to this five-week challenge.
In the thread below, leave one comment, containing responses to the following prompts:
- Introduce yourself and share why you decided to participate in the "Start Coding" challenge
- What are you most excited about in regards to the "Start Coding" challenge?
- Anything you're nervous about?
- What is the most interesting thing about coding to you?
After you've left your own comment, scan through the thread and introduce yourself to a few people by replying to their comments! If anything they've said resonates with you, let them know! Then, be sure to follow one another here on CodeNewbie Community.
Oldest comments (68)
My name is Joyce, a young heart and beginner in web development. I have been learning the concepts in Javascript and how to apply it in a web page, I am now at the stage where I believe I should try my hands on different challenges which is my reason for joining "Start Coding" CHALLENGE.
The opportunity to learn and expand my knowlege through the different code challenges.
I not nervous. Just excited
Solving problems and seeing my solution work. This is satisfying
Hey all! My name is Alexis. I've dabbled on and off in coding for years, but life tends to get in the way and I fall off. Now that life is slowing down, I'm hoping to put more of my time into the things I enjoy doing, like coding.
I am excited about learning new things and expanding on my current knowledge.
I'm not really nervous about anything, just excited to get started!
I love learning new skills and the joy I get seeing something I coded come to life and work is so wonderful!
Hi Alexis, I’m Taylor, nice to e-meet you.
I’m completely new to coding and I’m eager to see what I create come to life. What do you want to create?
Hi Taylor!!
I've coded a couple of things through FreeCodeCamp, but I ultimately (long term) want to get into building my own website and app for my side business.
I will say one of they most frustrating and most rewarding moments in learning to code is when you get stuck on something and are able to figure it out and make it work!!
Hello Alexis, I’m Kingsley and I totally resonate around your last paragraph. The feeling is bliss!
Cheers to crushing #CNC2022🥂
Hello ALexis! I wish you the best in your coding challenge and may you get the best out of it! I look forward to this challenge alongside all of you!
Hi! My name is Tom! I am a beginner at learning web development, currently learning and enhancing my knowledge in JavaScript. I decided to participate in the "Start Coding" challenge because I want to learn more and more everyday, I also want to learn by doing.
I am really excited to meet some new people and enhance my knowledge more in coding by coding.
I am not nervous at all, very eager and excited to get started.
The most interesting thing about coding to me is that there is many solutions to a question.
Hi Tom - the thing you find most interesting is actually the thing I find most frustrating about coding! Haha. I tend to be a very black and white/right and wrong type person so the fact that there are multiple solutions to the same problem is so frustrating as a learner/beginner! But I know it's good for me :)
Hey I’m thatohgi, I joined CodeNewbie to get started coding and be with a community that I can count on for support. I am excited to getting started on my coding journey, I’m also nervous to be starting my coding journey. The most interesting thing about coding to me is when I hit enter and finding out if this jumble of letters I mashed together actually works.
Hi, my name is Arthur and I have always struggled with coding, but I am determined. Hope to complete this challenge and come away with something I can showcase. Pleased to meet you all, and best of luck in your own journeys!
We will definitely crush it bro!
Rooting for you!
Hi! My name is Jessenia (Jessy). I joined the “Start Coding” challenge to get more practice/hands on of the little bit of coding I’ve learned. Hoping it would help me feel more confident as a coder.
I’m excited to learn new things and also hopefully meet some new people.
I don’t think I’m nervous just very excited to start the challenge.
The most interesting thing about coding to me is seeing how many different solutions there are to a problem.
Hello everyone!! My name is Tina and I am currently teaching AP Computer Science Principles. I have been a teacher for 17 years, but this is my first year teaching computer science. I decided to undertake this challenge as a way of sharpening my own skills. I did some coding in college, but that was a million years ago and systems change. I want to be the best possible teacher for my kids, and I also want to be able to expand the program. In order to do that, I need more knowledge myself.
I'm most excited about the connections that can/will be made by participating in this cohort. While it will be great to learn, I know that building a community of coding friends/contacts is what will give me longevity in learning.
I don't really think I'm nervous about anything. I guess the only thing that might be weighing on my mind is will this be what I need to find my focus when it comes to learning code. I think with all the possible languages, and nuances for each language, I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed. I just hope that I can sort it all out to make better sense of it.
I find coding in general to be very interesting. I like the puzzle aspect of it and the critical thinking that goes along with debugging.
Hello, I'm Raphael. I've seen quite some coding challenges out there but those are always the competition type of challenges. But when I saw this codenewbie challenge which is done in assignment-like mode, I'm sure I'll be learning new things and therefore decided to participate.
The most interesting thing that I find about coding is that most of the stuff can be solve in a logical way. Memorising stuff that doesn't contain any sort of logic never worked for me, my brain just shuts down😂
Hello Raphael,
I am such a logical thinker as well and I agree that a lot of coding problem solving can be done in a logical way. It will be challenging and fun!!
Hello everyone! My name is Jason and I am excited to get started with the Start Coding challenge. I decided to participate because I've always tried coding alone, and not with anyone else to support or motivate me. I am hoping I will be able to break the cycle of tutorial hell and get through to more productive learning.
I'm excited that I don't feel like I'll be doing this alone. I'm hoping I can be involved in the community and for that to help motivate me. I'm also planning to tweet out daily thoughts and ideas over at jdanielsdev on Twitter.
I'm nervous that I will fail again. But I've failed so many times, what's one more?
I am fascinated about how coding can break all limits. If you think of a tool that would be useful and none exists, make it. If there's something that can't be done, code a way to make it possible. Coding has broken so many limits in the past.
Here's to a great #CNC2022!
Hey Jason!! I completely get the fear of failure, but at the same time, if you've learned something new have you really failed? :-) I look forward to seeing succeed in the upcoming weeks!!
Nice write up Jason!👍🏾
Who knows, one more could be that break out you desire!
Rooting for you mate!
Excellent and relatable post! Looking forward to seeing all of us get the most of this challenge!
Pleasure to meet you Jason! I look forward to seeing your journey as the weeks go by! I will follow your twitter so I can see your progress. You got it this time man! Lets do this!
So relatable! We're all going to see this throug
Hi Jason, great to meet you and I just started following you on Twitter!
This is really relatable Jason.
Most of my existing (small) coding experience is from having a problem I needed to solve at work - bolting together VBA snippets copied from StackOverflow and the like to automate things in Excel, working with SAS statistical analysis and SQL because someone at work felt I had enough experience because of the aforementioned VBA, writing HTML and some (ugly) CSS in an attempt to make SharePoint pages slightly more engaging. Every attempt to translate those snippets of learning in the past have failed - partly because of the lack of a problem to solve, mainly because of allowing myself to get frustrated and bored, and of course because of my amazing ability to judge myself harshly for not learning something immediately when I haven't even allowed myself time to digest it!
Hopefully having likeminded people around me will assist to make this time different.
Let's go #CNC2022
Hello Jason, this time is the charm! I am rooting for you.
Same boat here!
Tutorial hell has me on a loop, but i hope this challenge brings an end to it.
I'm rooting for you too!! ✊
My name is Taylor. I’ve been interested in coding for a while but never took the time to learn it. Now I’m ready to dedicate my time to learning how to do it.
I’m excited to learn by doing and gain a new skill.
Not nervous, but eager to get started 😊
I think it’s fascinating that you can learn languages to build websites, software, and solve solutions. A few years ago I accidentally clicked source code on a webpage and it blew my mind to see the code behind it. I like being creative and solving problems and I think coding opens the door to do both.