Coding, Learning, Steem Blockchain - Getting Back on the Horse

Have you ever started something...only to "restart" multiple times?

Well, that's been my relationship with coding on the steem blockchain. It is still one my major goal of 2018 but somehow, life got in the way and got distracted for a couple months.

There seem to be a "hump" in the learning curve where once you can actually DO interesting with what you learn, the hump is over. It's like juggling in a way...once you know how to do a simple cascade, things are much more fun...but before that, it's a real pain in the butt.

Here I will chronicle some of the strategies that I'm taking to speed up my learning as well as an interesting project that might interest some of you.

Calling a Friend

I'm lucky to be friend with an incredible developer in Mtl. You can find him on steemit at @kareniel but if you really want to know how good of a dev he is, check out his Github: https://github.com/kareniel

He recently went freelance and we've been talking about possible projects involving the Blockchain. But for now, he agreed to be my coding tutor and to help me shorten my learning curve to start developing on the Steem Blockchain.

Week by week, I'm going to share what he is helping me with and how fast I'm making progress at making my first steem app. Also, once I'm far enough into the process, I believe I'll be in a better position to share HOW one actually get the simplest of apps online.

I believe that by having someone to be accountable to, it will help me stay on the horse, give me some accountability and keep me from being distracted by shiny objects.

The DevPortal is Useless For Beginners

Don't get me wrong, https://developers.steem.io keeps getting better and better. The team is really doing a good job at creating a resource for thousands of devs to get started...BUT if you are just getting started with JS and Node, the chasm seems HUGE.