The year 2019 has come to end and the new year 2020 is beginning. Keeping my tradition of writing looking back year review post, its time to reflect on 2019 and set the goal for year 2020. Here are links to my previous year-end 2016, 2017 and 2018 review posts. As in previous years, in […]
Looking Back Year 2018
The year 2018 is coming to end. The new year 2019 is beginning. The time has arrived to write 2018 year end post, a tradition that I started couple of years ago to reflect on my year. Here are links to my 2016 and 2017 year-end posts. Just like in previous years, in this 2018 […]
How I am Learning To Code
While doing my JavaScript and ReactJs tutorial search I came across this post is inspired by Learning How to Learn: The Most Important Developer Skill by Preethi Kasireddy. This post really resonated me at my core especially reminding myself that (i) learning is a process and not a goal, and (ii) turning learning into an […]
Thoughts # 4: WordPress Progressive Themes & React JS
Occasionally, I take a small break (a day or two) from my regular JavaScript learning routine. This sort of breaks often happens whenever my learning gets little intense or it is triggered by other events. Yesterday, Morten Rand-Hendriksen released Building Progressive Themes with WP Rig in Lynda library and this was a breaking event for […]
Research is spending 6 hours reading 35 papers, so you can write one sentence containing 2 references.
— Bryan Gaensler (@SciBry) April 26, 2018
This is so true! while learning and working on my learning-note posts, some day I spend entire day on googling & reading different resources and writing few sentences only. Yes! learning is frustrating process.
Two days before, I wrote my thought-post on JavaScript Functions after I got confused with function scope & hoisting and felt like I got stocked forever. To-day I came across very inspirational article A Lifetime of Learning to Code in medium.
To quote from Tyler Elliot Bettilyon’s post:
If you don’t understand any .. general principles then you may have to understand this code from scratch — and that’s a lot harder.
We all start our careers knowing relatively little. Hopefully we finish them knowing quite a lot more.
Tyler reminds in his post that learning & mastering a programming language takes about 10-years. This also is a great reminder that getting frustrated after three-months of learning is not realistic.