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Discussion on: #CNC2021 "Code More" Mission 1 Submission Thread

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MAZ

I want to code more because:
To look for a job career and because coding is something that I (mostly) enjoy doing compared to other hobbies.

I know I’ll have reached my “code more” goal when:
As long as I’m doing Habits including coding and other stuff everyday then I’ll know
That I’m on the right path. Goals are just stairs, you can fall on the stairs easily and by that I mean I can fail easily which is why going up stairs all the time without falling is no easy task.

My top three assumptions for reaching my goal are:

  1. I think contributing to projects on github is kind of a must as I can gain skills including communication skills and coding and getting feedback.
  2. Pretty certain that there are tons of resources online thus why I pick the most used ones and I actually use them including 30 seconds of code for code snippets and uigradients for picking gradients for CSS.
  3. Even if I don’t have free time I would code for at least a short amount of time. It’s better to do something rather than doing nothing.

Of these assumptions, my riskiest is: Depression and mental health issues getting in my way of learning which causes an 8-month-break for example.

When I think about my riskiest assumption, three possible root causes are:

  1. My low self-esteem as comparing myself to other incredible devs is a trap hard to avoid.
  2. “Too much information” “This is too hard” happened when I was first introduced to OOP in Javascript.
  3. Managing time between highschool, homework, coding, etc.

3 ways I might address these root causes are:

  1. Always remind myself “Small progress is better than none”
  2. I have to come with better ways to deal with failure.
  3. Always watch my “funny collection” when I’m down.

Of these, the biggest cause that’s worth tackling first is: getting through the big information