It's been a while since the last post. Still coding. I'm putting more time into the Free Code Camp challenges. I'm halfway through the lower level challenges, referred to as bonfires. It's an ongoing process. The point of the exercises is to use the concepts and construct algorithms in order to solve the challenges. For me, the hard part is putting together the code in order to solve the problems. Free Code Camp is JS-based. (Javascript). It's basically the language that powers the web, so very important.


For those who get stuck on the challenges, there are a few options:

• pair-program (working with someone else to solve the challenge)
• research on the net (Hello Stack Overflow!)

It's just a matter of keeping with it, being disciplined and putting the necessary hours. This is a free bootcamp with an amazing community. And did I mention that it's free? Free Code Camp (FCC) makes you job ready. From what I've seen, that's no exaggeration. 

Oh and a month or so ago, I went on an interview for a startup. Let's just say the position was to help users find stuff. Let's just say that they help users with fulfilling any kind of request, pizza, tickets, whatever. The interview was on one of the hottest days. Based in Tribeca, I was sweating, drenched in sweat, lost and had to walk up the stairs to the 3rd or 4th floor. Actually before I was even there, the position didn't really sound that appealing to me, but went anyways. It sounded like a glorified butler, but app-based. 

Apparently, the people that I was interviewing with had seen like 800 people but only hired 8 so far. Not really right for me. But it got me thinking about the kind of life that I want. I'm starting to want something different than what my parents had in mind--you know stability, life-long job....I've started to look at cars....that I want.... Never mind that I don't have a license. In the past, I just didn't see what the whole point was, since there's no place to park on my block....

Definitely, a Mazda 3. Red. Maybe a hatchback.... so this is kinda like my motivation. Just owning stuff, having assets, that's kind of what I'm moving towards.