This thread is for participants in Cohort 1 of #CNC2022's "Start Coding" Challenge.
Mission 1 Discussion Thread
After you've completed the reading and exercises in your Mission 1 email, respond to the following prompts...
1. What are your coding goals?
2. What does successful learning look like to you?
3. How do you plan to measure your success?
4. Do you have any particular timeline/deadline for learning to code?
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Why are you learning to code?I want to start learning to code because I want to make my career in the tech industry.
What’s your goal?
What’s a tangible learn-to-code goal you hope to reach in 6 months? I hope to start with the basic/fundamentals of programming and get to the point where I can build an application and build a good portfolio.
12 months? I hope to land a well paying job by the time I reach my 12 months of coding.
What does successful learning look like to you? Is it about building a bunch of projects, having a deeper understanding of a particular technology, passing a certification, something else? Visualize and write down what success looks like to you.
I think successful learning is having the confidence to indulge in projects without doubting oneself much about whether I can make it to the end or not.
How will you measure that success? Is it about the amount of time spent, badges collected, courses completed? Are there tools you can use to track your learning so that you can measure your progress and document your success?
The measurement for that success will be the amount of time spent as well as how well you understood the concept and could create a complete project.
Do you have a timeline, or any deadlines, associated with your learning goals? Do you need to pass an exam by a certain day? Do you need to start applying for jobs by a certain time? Do you want to finish a project on a particular date? Jot down any due dates or important time-related criteria.
Normally, I set my start date and end date to complete my learning. When I take some online courses(like Coursera) its mostly that I try to finish the course within the given deadline.
What are you coding goals? I want to start learning code because I have always found it interesting. I always seem to find an excuse why now wasn't a good time to start.
What's your goal? My six month goal is to learn how to make complex websites for both web2 and web3. My twelve month goal is to learn a different language and be able to code a new app or website with it.
What does successful learning look like it you? Successful learning to code to me, is seeing different projects I have completed along the way and how my skills have advanced. Passing and receiving a certificate validating my knowledge is another.
How will you measure that success? For me it will be a balance between coding projects/ time management / courses completed.
Do you have a timeline, or any deadlines, associated with your learning goals? No I do not. I generally enough coding and since I believe learning is a lifelong process I don't have any deadlines / timelines.
I'm a little behind with this. Oops.
1.What are your coding goals?
a. Learn front end: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
b. Front End Framework: Bootstrap, jQuery, SASS ,React, Redux
c. Learn how to work with data and API: D3,JSON API and AJAX
d. Learn version control: GIT
2.What does successful learning look like to you?
a. Deep and clear understanding technology.
b. Completing all the courses and projects on time.
c. enjoying the process of learning.
3.How will you measure that success?
Be able to get a internship or a entry level job as a front end developer at the end
of my learning.
I am documenting my learning journey using "google doc".
For the learning part I using the learning techniques from the course "Learning
How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects" which is
available on coursera.
4.Do you have any particular timeline/deadline for learning to code?
I think 6 months of time will be enough to achieve my goals.
Why are you learning to code? I want to start learning to code because I would like to contribute for free open source projects and non-free open source projects while helping the society to do their day to day works easily by making creative, novelty software.
What’s your goal? What’s a tangible learn-to-code goal you hope to reach:
In 6 months? Learn more about mobile applications developments using new technology and apply them to real world problem.
In 12 months? Work as a full stack developer in technical industry and learn furthermore about the hardware developments like Arduino and Raspberry Pi.
What does successful learning look like to you? Successful learning means to me where I have developed the innovative, amazing project which I have never done before with having a deeper better understanding of a technology. And earning a certificate is a sort of feeling to feel that I have succeed in learning new aspects.
How will you measure that success? Well, I would happy when I'm seeing the total of course content completed with no issue/problem with better understanding of each point.
Do you have a timeline, or any deadlines, associated with your learning goals? Well, most of time I work with deadline coz' I don't want to postpone the work/project.
What are your coding goals?
My Goals are:
What does successful learning look like to you?
My ability to understand and remember the topics and lessons thought and applying them.
How do you plan to measure your success?
When I'm able to complete this challenge.
Do you have any particular timeline/deadline for learning to code?
Timeline, Yes!
Deadline, No i don't.
I believe coding is a life long learning process as long as new things are developed daily.