Are you the kind of person who has been trying to learn to code for years yet always remained in the newbie zone?
Well...that's me. I have done udemy classes, freecodecamp, codeschool and many others but always kind of dropped out at the point where JS was starting to get complicated enough that I couldn't see how it was related to an actual project.
But Finally...
Months ago, I started with the idea that the Steem blockchain should have it's own forum service where anyone could launch their own forum community on their own domain.
I paid a friend of mine to build a basic prototype in Vue.js and got it working just enough to have something "working". Then I partnered with @buildteam to take on the development further and because the Product Manager for TokenBB.
Less than 2 months ago, the front-end of TokenBB has been opened source and now anyone can run a local instance and play around with it to their hearts content (including me!).
2 Weeks Ago
Since no devs on the team want to be coding HTML & CSS all day, I decided to take on that role for the project. The first time I did, it was a complete mess...I made a somewhat workable theme with 600 lines of CSS.
But then, I realized I could do much better, I stripped down everything to bare-bone and built the whole front-end design from the ground up and reduced the stylesheet to about ~150 lines of CSS.
Learning While Coding
Now what I've come to realize is that as I am coding the front-end, I have to start playing with javascript and understand the architecture of a VUE.JS framework.
It seems that all that I needed to push me beyond the newbie zone was a project where I could start really small and then work myself to become more competent over time.
Check This Out!
Visit https://test.tokenbb.io to check out how the latest design turned out. More features coming soon!
Thats so cool! I don't know if you remember but the last time you posted about this, I think you where talking about free code camp I sort of got back into programming as well and I've been working as a Jr. dev for 4 months lol mostly Javascript but some python with Pandas as well :-)
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That's awesome man. What are you working on?
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It's a marketing company and we mostly do websites, I'm in charge of creating basic web functions with JS & maintenance of the servers to keep our clients sites up and running. With Python I'm mostly processing user data forms from Facebook, we use facebook lead ads and get the data of over 400 a day and that has to be processed thru python.
Nothing too fancy but it's a nice place to get some experience :-)
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That seems like my job...but without the coding ;-P
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From a 3rd party perspective we all do the same job, we sit in front of a screen writing computer spells that do things for us, internet wizards :^)
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Thanks man. Check out the latest update. We have pagination, quote this, editing post. SubCategories coming soon too.
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That’s really cool that you know how to code. Coding is something I’d like to learn in the future. Do you have any sites you can refer me to for beginner coders?
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freecodecamp is the best
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Thank you 🙏😁
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Thanks for the information. Finally, someone started coding, for me it is interesting and I learn easily.
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I think so its been a month you have posted something my friend . Happy to see you back.
As you said learing of coding that's cool thing you are doing. And as you said partners with buildteam that is cool.
Might be even someone can tech me this kind of cool stuff so i can be a good developer . Good one.
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This is quite fascinating. It's inspiring to know that you still forged ahead with learning coding despite the initial Cchallenges and eventually start a project of your own.
I don't know much about coding but if I intend to start, atleast I've gotten where I could visit from this post. Well done
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Hi @cryptoctopus,
When I read this part...
I thought you were describing me... ;-). After youtube videos, I went to codeacademy, udemy. Each time I gave up when it came to object related programming in JS. Now I've started again and this time, I'm trying Node.js. It's a long shot but I'm keeping faith that I will manage some of it, if only I try hard enough ;-).
I think that you are right that the learning curve improves once you are doing more than abstract lessons. Real projects really push you to learn even though the solutions are not always perfect, it's the best way to improve.
By the way, I liked the design of your page
Best regards,
Achim
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Run a local instance of TokenBB and start playing with it! Its build in Node.js and Vue.js and you get to see the code and how its done.
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Thanks for the tip. I've to go a bit more in depth with node first but I might definitely try it later on
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I need to burn all my ships
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I eny you. Also wanted to learn how to code but time had left me. Congratulations to you sir
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That's an awesome idea! I relate so much to this, and am currently stuck in the newbie zone, maybe I also need something like that to get to a next stage of learning how to code :) thanks for sharing @cryptoctopus!
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@cryptoctopus it's true if you want to learn what you have to do is implement a project which makes people learn on their own and none course will teach you to get out of trouble these courses teach the basics generally if you want to advance that you have to do it on your own in things that you want to perform. :)
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I am looking forward to seeing how the project comes up and how the registration has gone! I think that many of the sites like @steemonboarding and @steemsavvy can benefit from this on their sites and hope they register! Good work!
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Tokenbb seems very interesting!
Also, Learning to code was something that I could never wrap my head around in class. I think that all we need sometimes is to push ourselves to start something associated with what we want to learn or even master. That way we will learn something regardless!
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@cryptoctopus nice, I think learning to code is like learning a whole new way to view the world. Just like using math to expand the way you view life. The same can be done with programming. Ive been playing around with Python scripts and working with NodeJS for my D.tube node. Being able to stare at lines of text in config files and make something of it feels real good.
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