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Took a leap of faith this year to pursue a career in programming. Shipped my first thing recently, here's my experience.

Hannah Ong on August 20, 2020

I wanted to share some of my experiences learning to code as a former HR professional. I wanted to pursue engineering as a means to gain more auton...
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Adam Coster • Edited

The "why" is definitely the most important part. Good on you for making sure you could get answers.

I was also amazed when I first started just how much I could already do while not knowing very much at all. The fact the programming is useful at all levels of skill is tremendously important, and it's a shame that it isn't taught more broadly in early education. Fast wins, fast feedback, learning math and comp sci principles as side effects of making tools and toys -- programming is perfect for education.

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Andrew Baisden

Congrats on your first project the more you do the faster you learn.

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Shaiju T

Congratulations 😄, How many months it took to learn HTML, CSS, React, JavaScript and TypeScript by looking at documentations ?

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Hannah Ong

Thanks! If I try to timestamp everything:
-For HTML, CSS, JS, I kickstarted my learning with freecodecamp, which took about 2-3 weeks? I remember feeling like I really crammed this since I was still working at the time lol. Whenever I have a question, I'll go look it up on MDN.
-For React it's a mixture of resources, but I followed an MDN tutorial which was really helpful and took only a day or so to get through (developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/L...) (I liked it better than the React tutorial..., sorry React!) But I still go to their documentation when I get confused on anything in regards to hooks or syntax or anything else!
-TypeScript.. I'm still learning! But I didn't need more than a day to get started!

I'm no expert in any of these areas, but it was easier than I thought to get code together make something functional :) The site itself took me about 3-4 days to build, and it took my husband around the same time for the backend. :)

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Cheyenne Lee Smith

I love this site! Nice work :)

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Sai Sandeep Vaddi

Congratulations on first project.
Nice work on MEEP :)

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Doaa Mahely

Hello Hannah! Great job on the frontend 😄
I really like the idea of MEEP. Good luck to you with your learning!

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João Forja 💭

Congratulations on your first shipped project! Hope things keep moving forward an going well :)

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Dan B

Lovely site! and a really nice idea!

(Here is also some feedback: I noticed that the linkedin-hyperlink on your github-readme leads to linkedin.com/feed/ instead of your profile.)

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Hannah Ong

Oo thanks!!! I'll fix that!

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Michelle Lee

Did you also create the images yourself?

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Hannah Ong

I wish I was that talented! But credit to (undraw.co/illustrations)! You can use the illustrations in any project for free!