Adventures in rebooting my coding practice

December 28th, 2011

After my approach to a nervous breakdown last week, kind people in the community have helped me get back on track.  I have restructured my current big project so it no longer includes a "miscellaneous" function, and is sorted into logical pieces.  I am also seeking to learn the actual vocabulary fo what things in programming are called, because conversations like this are not really a good thing: "Then, I put it into the thing with the curly brackets, and then I tried to access the thing with the other thing, and there was an error, which mentioned another thing that I didn't understand Read More...

Hacking till it works is no longer enough

December 25th, 2011

Learning to code with editorial intent has been a pet project of mine for years by now, but this week was the first time I literally found myself in tears, because I couldn't get something to work.  My father has a great story from his educational days, about how he changed degrees because he saw the first time, he didn't like school Read More...