December 11, 2015
So I finally took the time to sit down and learned how to HTML & CSS. Wasn't hard at all. Now I just gotta stop being lazy and keep up with practicing on a regular basis. After interviewing people about learning to code and now doing it myself, it's really just a matter of one's mentality rather than anything else. If you tell yourself that this is just a matter of figuring it out and doing it, you're set. It might take you longer than most people. It might take less time. Either way, if you do it you do it. Simple as that.
I use to ask every developer this question when I was interviewing them for Hackers of NY: what's one piece of advice you would give to someone who was trying to learn how to code? Not that I'm all that good but I think one thing that really made me realize I could do this is that coding (nowadays) is really like putting pieces of a puzzle together. There are so many resources out there for you that you just need to find a way to integrate them together to make what you want. You literally don't have to build anything from scratch. At least when you're first starting out. One you know how the piece sort of fit together and how you glue these different pieces that other people have built, then you can venture out and start making new stuff yourself. I'm still in the process of learning but knowing that all the pieces are out there and that all I had to do was figure out how to glue them together made is all the more easier, psychologically speaking, to build what I wanted.
Keep going y'all. I'll be there with you.