They encouraged us to start a journal or blog on Medium. I’m hesitant to add one more social media platform to my schedule. But the class has been moving so quickly, I thought it could actually be helpful to keep track of what we’re doing, and even as a way to (hopefully) look back and see the progress we’re making. Because right now it feels like we’re drowning in information!

Class started Monday. Just yesterday, I turned to my class-neighbor and said, “It’s only Wednesday?” Because it feels like it’s been three weeks.

To me, an amateur coder — well, I don’t think it’s fair to call myself a coder yet — an HTML/CSS novice, we’ve already covered a lot of ground. Theoretically we have the tools to create responsive websites using the @media query option, for example. A very useful tool indeed. Like the float attribute. Now if I could just figure out how to use them without an hour of trial-and-error, we’ll be getting somewhere!

That’s most of what we’re doing right now. Creating something. Looking at it through the Chrome Inspector. “Did it work?” Tweaking a few things. “Ah, yes. That’s what I wanted.” Then a minute later realizing it’s not exactly how you wanted it. Changing a few more things. Messing things up. Then pressing CTRL + z until it gets back to where you had it.

But sometimes the magic happens. And it all comes together. There certainly is a good deal of satisfaction that comes from bringing an idea from seed to fruit. Even if it is only a small one.

I keep telling myself, “We’re not expected to master all of this right away. It will come if we just keep digging into it.” So that’s what I’m going to keep doing. Keep showing up. Keep doing the work. As Woody Allen says, “80% of life is just showing up.” Very wise words indeed. Now for a little JavaScript practice.