Week 8 at Recurse Center

*Written during week 10…week 9 was thanksgiving break So this week was awesome. I finished my Markov Chain the weekend before the start of week 8. By the end of week 8 I was about 58% done with the HTML & CSS course by Codecademy. Realized that although I was making cool stuff, HTML &…

I hit my streak!…3 weeks ago (Markov Complete)

Wow…long time no see. It’s been like 3/4 weeks. I honestly don’t even know what to say. I believe the last time I blogged was week three. In short, week 4 & 5 were unproductive and horrible, week six is when the magic entered my life. I was so stressed from my Markov Chain when…

Week 3 @ the Recurse Center

*This week was very brief as I was sick and didn’t get much done. Monday I worked through my CS101 MOOC and shipped code straight from the terminal to Github (Thanks Andrew!). The project I shipped counted the number of days in between two dates.  Tuesday I did 3 App Academy prep work questions in…

Mini Tour of the Recurse Center

So over the last 5 years or so the Recurse Center has managed to accumulate a measly 9 or so photos of itself. So I decided to fix that &  share pics from my time here. *Note: I got permission for all of the pictures with people’s partial faces and their full bodies.* So first…

Don’t be Cliquey ~ Week two @ RC

* I am writing this at the end of week 3 (btw) but I have notes from weeks 2 so the dates may not be correct. As far as the title, last week I realized that I need to expand a bit more outside of the 10 people I go to everyday. Since then I…

First White Board Coding ~ Recurse Center Day 5

This afternoon I did my first white board coding exercise. It was bad. So bad that I had to bite my cheeks to keep myself from crying during the feedback. What’s worse is that I was in the easy  section of the Cracking the Code interview. My task was to write a function that finds…

RC day 4 ~ Progress

Today was my most productive day of the week. I finally reached my check-in in time and I did some Codewars exercises. Doing CodeWars with other Recursers has been so beneficial for me. I believe I completed about two/three of them today. They were so hard but I loved how James and Lyn were both…

Recurse Center Game Plan

My Goals for my time here at the Recurse Center Interests (tentative): Moocs: CS101(Udacity), CS50, Algorithms(Stanford), How to use Git & Github (Udacity), CS253- Web development (Udacity), Welcome to Computer Networking (Udacity), Invent with Python & Pygame Project Ideas: Markov Chain Sentence Generator & Twitterbot, password generator, Bagels game (Inventwithpython), Caesar Cipher, Web Scraper, Otome (story-telling) game,…

Recurse Center Day 2 & Day 3

Day 2 Recap Yesterday was my second day at the Recurse Center. Here’s some bullet points: Missed my first official check-in (1 p.m.) by 7/8 minutes as a result of Trader Joe’s grocery shopping . Got some help from James (facilitator) on my implementation of the Markov Chain for my sentence generator. Quickly realized that…

Recurse Center Day 1

Arrived to the Recurse Center earlier today and was given a key, name tag and a tour of the facility. There was a good amount of food available. The morning, like the whole day, was overwhelming. I got food and found my way over to the corner to observe everyone and take it all in….

My Recurse Center Application Process

  I am writing this for those interested in attending Recurse Center (like I was). I believe I have read every material there is to know about attending RC. A little background: I have only been programming for several months now and the only language I have focused on is Python. In my honest opinion…