Programming. Where even the small victories feel like championships and everything else feels like a kick in the face. Programming bootcamps are a relatively new thing, and only recently becoming accepted

A picture is worth a thousand words. In modern parlance, a meme says it all. I'd wager a guess that this dog, too, was trying to learn Express while still having a shaky handle on React. Not to go into

Every Friday we get to visit a different tech company in Las Vegas. And every tech company I've seen has been completely different than the one before it. Not better, not worse. Just very different. And

Fun projects are fun. Who knew? I've been struggling all week with projects. Part of that is because they turn into these huge sprawling collections of components and folders and it becomes overwhelming

Is there a term for the schadenfreude that you get when someone with years of programming experience also cannot get a to-do list to work properly? Its not happiness that my instructor is struggling, because

So the plan was to catch up on sleep today, since I missed quite a lot yesterday. But I forgot that I had so much adulting to do that there would be no sleep again today. I do enjoy coding, despite my

Sleep? Forget it pal, this CSS isn't gonna write itself. Monday's project was perfect for a Monday. It was a metaphor for Monday itself. Stressful and neverending, with sub-optimal results. Not exactly

So most of the big tech firms in Las Vegas are built around the casino industry. Duh. Companies like Aristocrat, Everi, Scientific Gaming...they are all big firms and work with the biggest clients in town.

So ReactJS memes are a thing? Learning comes in many different ways and if studying memes to be proficient at ReactJS is wrong, then I don't want to be right? I also got some JS flashcards from Anki at

The "a-ha"moment I was really hoping for yesterday was as elusive as ever. I spent yet another evening staring at my screen and trying to get somewhere. At the end of the night, I ended up right

Never before has a single image been so relevant in the history of images, or relevancy. Our project for today was to create a contact list in React. This contact list should be dynamic, not hard-coded,

I was promised fun. Where is my fun? We officially started learning ReactJS today in class. Up to this point I had zero exposure to React, so I had no idea what to expect. From all the hype I'd expected

When you shake your fist in the air and make a muffled "Yes!", just for getting a YouTube icon to appear on your screen, you might be a junior programmer. I did spend hours trying to get Font

When even my instructors had a hard time completing my homework, I knew that maybe things won't be so bad in the end. That regex homework was devilishly difficult. Do I still enjoy regex? Yes. Am I even

You know that feeling JUST before your workload starts to get out of control and projects start falling by the wayside? Assignments aren't getting turned in early...they are getting submitted just in time

When your homework project happens to also be the first assignment in a JavaScript for Kids lesson plan, and you still cannot complete it, its not gonna be a good day. Although I get the logic behind how

My head feels physically heavier since spending the entire weekend doing my group project. I'd like to believe my head is full of knowledge. But its certainly from lack of sleep. Which is odd since I'm

Today we are officially 25% of the way finished. This reminds me of running the mile in high school. I was a chubby kid growing up, so the only thing for me worse than running a mile was having to attempt

I just built a jQuery carousel the other day. So why am I completely incapable of building one right now? I actually built two carousels this week. The first was something simple I put together for homework.

The ads that play on my YouTube channel are all now about programming and learning. Which is funny, sad and helpful. And encouraging...at least it means that I'm spending enough time on schoolwork that