{"id":504,"date":"2016-06-23T18:44:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T18:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livinna.com\/?p=504"},"modified":"2016-06-23T18:48:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T18:48:29","slug":"update-on-my-web-development-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livinna.com\/update-on-my-web-development-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on my Web Development Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-507 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/livinna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/brainpain-256x300.jpg\" alt=\"brainpain\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/livinna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/brainpain-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/livinna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/brainpain-17x20.jpg 17w, https:\/\/livinna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/brainpain.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/h5>\n<h5>A month or two has passed since I first wrote about this and I&#8217;ve settled into a pretty good rhythm.<\/h5>\n<p>Every day, at lunch break, I hop into my car and work on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freecodecamp.com\">Free Code Camp<\/a> challenges for an hour.<\/p>\n<p>This way I get a minimum of 5 hours studying a week. \u00a0It has been slow-going and, to be honest, I&#8217;ve had to miss a break or two here and there, to attend to errands, catch up on a Game of Thrones episode before stumbling on a spoiler, etc.<\/p>\n<p>But all in all, it has been pretty good. \u00a0I powered through the html and CSS challenges, built a tribute site to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challengedathletes.org\/\">The Challenged Athletes Foundation<\/a> (who I am fundraising for &#8211; more details to come soon!) and developed a mobile-responsive bootstrap portfolio site.<\/p>\n<p>Now I am on to the Javascript training and it is a bit of a struggle. \u00a0An hour a day, with work and other things in between, means that a lot of the information isn&#8217;t fresh in my mind each time I sit down to it, and it is all completely new to me. \u00a0I am battling negative self-talk as I spend all break on just one challenge, but I will not stop.<\/p>\n<p>I feel confident that, if I keep trying, I will start to get better at it. \u00a0It&#8217;s inevitable. \u00a0It has to happen. \u00a0It will just take more work. \u00a0So, with that, I should get back to it!<\/p>\n<p>Check out my codepen page for my responsive portfolio site <a href=\"http:\/\/codepen.io\/LivShaka\/full\/zBxBRO\/\">here!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month or two has passed since I first wrote about this and I&#8217;ve settled into a pretty good rhythm. Every day, at lunch break, I hop into my car and work on my Free Code Camp challenges for an hour. This way I get a minimum of 5 hours studying a week. \u00a0It has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/livinna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/livinna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}