Restructured Learning: Trying Harder

So after reading yet another good post on That Amazing Programmer, I got to thinking about my own reluctance to sit down and learn programming. I knew I should be trying harder.

Chris wrote down some of his apprehensions in a freewrite type of entry in his journal. I didn’t do that. I guess I am forcing myself to actually program 8 hours a day; yeah, a full-time job full of learning.

Here is my Priorities whiteboard:

So far yesterday I programmed for close to four hours after getting up super late as allergies are killing me and when that happens, not much gets done. And I am still looking for small freelance projects to gain more experience so I can be gainfully employed. I am probably going to head to bed very soon.

[caption id="attachment_1069" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Daily Whiteboard Schedule[/caption]

I felt a little uneasy that Dave McFarland actually said a lot of developers use the library to do their AJAX requests. It didn’t make sense.

So I consulted the Code Newbie Slack. And boy, it did not disappoint.

Using a lib like jQuery can really slow your site down— it’s huge and even if you use a CDN, like we did in this exercise, it has to pull a large resource from that CDN which can slow things down considerably. Take a look at this, however:

This is deceptively simple code. Short and sweet as opposed to the XMLHttpRequest method of vanilla JavaScript, which is here:

There’s a few more lines of code here but it just looks crazy.

But, as I know and had gotten confirmed, the less dependencies the better. And for someone new, actually learning the XMLHttpRequest method of creating AJAX requests is something that I should do. The jQuery though. It’s just so simple and pretty…

So after reading yet another good post on That Amazing Programmer, I got to thinking about my own reluctance to sit down and learn programming. I knew I should be trying harder.

Chris wrote down some of his apprehensions in a freewrite type of entry in his journal. I didn’t do that. I guess I am forcing myself to actually program 8 hours a day; yeah, a full-time job full of learning.

Here is my Priorities whiteboard:

So far yesterday I programmed for close to four hours after getting up super late as allergies are killing me and when that happens, not much gets done. And I am still looking for small freelance projects to gain more experience so I can be gainfully employed. I am probably going to head to bed very soon.

[caption id="attachment_1069" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Daily Whiteboard Schedule[/caption]

I felt a little uneasy that Dave McFarland actually said a lot of developers use the library to do their AJAX requests. It didn’t make sense.

So I consulted the Code Newbie Slack. And boy, it did not disappoint.

Using a lib like jQuery can really slow your site down— it’s huge and even if you use a CDN, like we did in this exercise, it has to pull a large resource from that CDN which can slow things down considerably. Take a look at this, however:

This is deceptively simple code. Short and sweet as opposed to the XMLHttpRequest method of vanilla JavaScript, which is here:

There’s a few more lines of code here but it just looks crazy.

But, as I know and had gotten confirmed, the less dependencies the better. And for someone new, actually learning the XMLHttpRequest method of creating AJAX requests is something that I should do. The jQuery though. It’s just so simple and pretty…