Day 06: Just Read It, Code It, Learn It

Writing engaging docs is truly a gift that goes under rewarded. I still remember reading through the Redux package docs and enjoying it. These Babel docs were written for someone other than a new user imo. Maybe I just haven’t found the write page yet but the information is definitely not stair stepped. This is where supplemental tutorials from YouTube come in handy!

TLDR;

Okay, so here are the highlights of what I did:

  • JavaScript -> Continued reading through the Babel JavaScript Compiler Package’s documentation. I finished going through the ES2015 section and the Babel version 7.8 update. I have no idea what is going on LOL. I need to watch some videos on actually using Babel. I do not know who these docs were written for but it is passively references things I have no clue about LOL. I am clearly not the target reader of the docs. I’ll get there step by step.
  • Practice -> Started working on the first project in “The Odin Project”. The project is build to build a landing page with HTML and CSS. I set up the Git Repo but didn’t get far in. I want to try using only vim instead of my usual IDE (VS Code).


Goal For Round 7 of the #100DaysofCode Challenge

This is my seventh round of the “#100daysofcode” challenge. I will be continuing my work from round five and round six into round seven. I am currently working through the book “Cracking the Coding Interview” by Gayle Laakmann McDowell. My goal is to become more familiar with algorithms and data structures. This goal was derived from my goal to better understand operating systems and key programs that I use in the terminal regularly e.g. Git. This goal was in turn derived from my desire to better understand the fundamental tools used for coding outside of popular GUIs. This in turn was derived from my desire to be a better back-end developer.

I have no idea if my path is correct but I am walking down this road anyways. Worst case scenario I learn a whole bunch of stuff that will help me out on my own personal projects.