Bush School IDMD Spring Semester 2021

Week 5

Programming is hard, but you’re doing great!

Either-Or - No States in-between!

• Ira Glass Taste
• How to become a programmer, or the art of Googling well
  • Sometimes it took hours for me to figure the simplest things out, but I’d come to understand that the answer was out there, somewhere.
  • It’s not about what we already know, it’s about how we learn. It’s about the tenacity of sitting in front of a computer and googling until you find the right answer. It’s about staring at every line of code until you understand what’s going on, or googling until you do.

Most Important advice

• Write a lot of code; PRACTICE!
• Search Google for the answers. Use liberally, but credit those authors!
• Ask questions, then more questions, and keep asking questions

References

Thanks to Crystal Hess for gathering most of this content