Process and Where to go

    

    For starters, this was all at the suggesting of a very good friend of mine, Brandon. We were in Zoom happy hour, and they were discussing their jobs, and I was like, "Oh well, I don't know if I'll be a teacher forever." Brandon says I might have the soft skills to do something like what he does, which is teaching others how to use products and languages his company uses to accomplish their goals. He offered to guide me a bit in this, and I figured why not start learning a new skill. If it gets me a higher paying job, sure. If I just stay here and make apps and websites for my classroom from the ground up, that's cool, too. Either way, it could make me more valuable in the long run, so I said yeah. So I started with some videos he sent along. 

C# 101 with Scott Hanselman and Kendra Havens

    These videos have tons of info, and at first some of it was very confusing. But I treated it like I would a class, and took notes, and practiced along with the videos, even when I didn't understand it. I felt like I wasn't learning anything and just copying code, and when I brought this up to Brandon, he laughed and said, "Yeah, that's basically coding." So I just kept up with it.  I finished the series and then met up with Brandon for our first meeting. 

    It was about 4 hours long, and it felt like 20 minutes. It was awesome to see his work, see where what I was learning could eventually go, and my mind started racing with possibility. He asked at the end if I had a project or something I would wanna create and play with in order to learn, and I took a little time to think about it and eventually landed on a website for poetry, something I started putting together ideas for immediately. 

    Part of that idea was this blog. It document my process AND create some content for the website, eventually. So, once in a while, there'll be some poetry analysis and once in a while, will be a story about coding and what I've been up to. I'll be working with HTML, CSS, C#, and whatever else ends up being necessary. I really am a total newbie at all of this; I took a basic programming camp in the sixth grade and never touched any code again until now. I never used HTML on Myspace or did anything with coding for fun or in classes or anything. So, after being pretty good at being a teacher for the past decade, I'm ready to look like a total moron in front of the whole world and make a bunch of stupid mistakes and learn from them. So, ya know, here we go.