1/3 of the way there

If you have been following my blog, you know that I have been doing every day commit challenge. I am happy to announce that I have completed 1 month of the challenge. I am 1/3 of the way there!!

I honestly didnā€™t think I would make it this far. Despite the fact that I have been enjoying learning to code, there were few days I found particularly challenging.

  1. I wanted to focus on finishing tutorials/classes rather than context switching just for the sake of ā€œwritingā€ code - as I was studying with Harvard C50 alongside
  2. I struggled to solve a bug that Iā€™d write bunch of codes but end up deleting them all
  3. Personal events such as sleeping over at my friendā€™s house or going on a trip made it difficult to commit since I didnā€™t want to look too nerdy in front of my friends

Iā€™m still trying to figure out the best way to make this ā€œevery day commit challengeā€ worth the way it will benefit me the most. As the goal is not to be obsessed with the ā€œchecking the boxā€, but to be able to push myself to proactively act/code to fail fast and learn fast. (There were certainly the days I was just checking the box, but there were definitely more days that I was able to make good progress through learning by doing)

Progress

Here is the picture of my GitHub contribution that I just took. As you see, you canā€™t see the white blank space in July! Definitely not the most impressive GitHub contribution as there are definitely days with just one commit, but itā€™s the consistency that gives me the confidence to trust my ability to keep going.

monthCommitment.png

Thoughts

Itā€™s pretty incredible that how much I have learned in this month. I feel like I can finally understand some concepts that Iā€™ve been struggling, and I feel like maybe Iā€™m capable of understanding some parts of software engineering. Honestly, I got pretty lucky that I have a friend whoā€™s been encouraging and supporting me whenever I feel like Iā€™m not making any progress, so itā€™s probably the combination of this challenge and my friendā€™s support that I was able to make it this far. Iā€™m grateful and excited to see what I will learn in the next 2 months!!