On Java

I am finally working on some code. It has taken ages to get to this point and I still don't think I am getting into it. Not fully. I met another 'code buddy' who told me it takes the hours and hours or practise before your brain clicks and starts to want to do coding. I admitted that I had been avoiding the experience for sometime.

A console log, writes things in a black box...html. No I don't entirely understand.

I have gotten to conditionals on Codeacademy. Apparently it gets better. It gets less hair splitting and slow when you try to fix problems with code etc.

I think it is time to go home. Have a rest.

A bit of logic was a nice break for my brain, but I need food. 

Day 1- Java Script Basics

I finally got around to it. Java Script. I am a complete newbie. I have no idea what I am doing. I am on Code academy and I can not even see what the code looks like because it does not come up on my android tablet. I seem to have gotten somewhere, it is is slightly more easy going than my initial attempts at C++. I will report more of the coding details in future posts.

Why am I doing this?

Not just because I am a woman, who has spent most of her life doing art and people centred things?

During my masters, my supervisor convinced me to take up a dissertation on the ICT Industry, actually on women and reproduction in regards to the Google and their egg freezing policies. I totally did not want to do my dissertation. I hardly knew what Anthropology was let alone how to start a independent masters research project in the area.

I was wrong. I ended up loving my dissertation and enjoying my short stay with the 'coders'. Neither of the company's I researched were 'typical' ICT company's, which was perhaps a draw back for my reseach, but an eye opener for someone new to technology.

And female.

Somewhere along the line, during my interviews, I decided to go native. Yes, I was an anthropology student, yes that is frowned upon by the institution, and did I care?

For the duration of my dissertation I was an objective observer, but post that, how employable was my beloved anthropology making me, exactly, and coding is the skill to have in would seem. Learning to code seemed like the logical thing to do.

I have my doubts, of course, my whole life has not been this, but I am going forward, one line at a time.

There are plenty of miss perceptions about coding, one of them is that it is not creative (purely logical). A coder has much in common with a poet, writer, etc. And this I will explain in successive posts.