Day 1

I still have lots more to work on:

So today was the first "official" day of the bootcamp, but it is still remote until the 3rd week. We had a Google Hangout that was basically our orientation with our Python instructor, Kris, going over some details. All in all wasn't too eventful but did start utilizing the Slack app to communicate with other people in my cohort; set up a study session for Wednesday with 2-3 people.

I finished up the JQuery track from CodeAcademy and it seems pretty easy to use although I can see how once you have nested selectors, it can get really confusing and might sometimes create issues. The track itself took only 2-3 hours to finish and you really only learn the syntax with the website telling you which function to write down. It's pretty similar to CSS' variety different styles; you're probably going to be googling any styles that you don't have memorized.

I also finished the CSS track on CDojo's website. The new domain has a couple of features that were pretty cool - namely, giving you the answer sheet to the assignments. I was stuck on creating a periodic table assignment for the longest time because I didn't know how to write the CSS file with small bits of code. I need to keep reminding myself that not everything has to be perfect; because the instructors themselves didn't match the page perfectly. A cool bit of coding that made it easier was how they formatted the elements - write a general rule for any columns of elements (create a fixed size border, margins etc.) and used additional classes to shift down any elements that contained one less element (like column 2).

This last assignment humbled me because I realized that my containers within containers method is not the solution to every problem, and that there are probably dozens of different solutions via HTML/CSS that I haven't even thought of or seen yet!