So my current coding schedule has been going well. I’m getting two hours on work days with few exceptions. Coding on my days off is pretty sporadic depending on family activities. I’m averaging around Ten coding hours per week right now and making good progress. I’m getting pretty anxious though and want to put in more hours coding. I think I actually go through withdrawals when I don’t code. I’m trying to find ways to squeeze in more coding times but it’s hard.
I’m done with the FCC Dungeon Crawler project. I had fun playing with the canvas. I could have spent more time tweaking some things here and there and even thought about using sprites and adding some animation. The basic functionality is there though and since there are other things I want to learn before starting my job search I decided it was time to move on. I may come back and play with it from time to time though. Might be something I work on with the kids, since they thought it was pretty cool.
Using Trello to keep track of this project went well. I still need to get used to it and work on my planning but I was able to lay out most of the major parts before I actually coded. It helped me speed things up because I didn’t waste time thinking about what to work on next. I just checked my Trello board and picked a part to work on.
This project was the last FCC React project. Next is the D3 section to finish out the Data Visualization certificate. I’m going to skip that for now and start working on back end projects. I’m trying to get job ready so I want to get familiar with testing and maybe get a taste of Node.js. I also think I need some polishing on my CSS and plain JS skills. So I’m going to start working through some challenges to tighten them up.
I’m on a roll now, and want to keep my momentum so see you next post.