A new challenge has been issued to the CTP Swarm Community. THE CTP GRIND
The premise is an easy one. Learn (or try) something new. We can all do that right! Then show the world what you've been doing by using whatever social media channels you use (Twitter, Facebook, Hive (obviously), or anywhere else you can think of) with a blog post, a tweet (probably have to link that to blog somewhere though) using the #ctpgrind tag.
Oh !!! almost forgot but you might have guessed from the graphic above - this is a one day and you're done challenge... Nooooo that would be far too easy. The real challenge is to do it for 30 days, and stick with it. You'll soon find it becomes a habit and you'll have a ready made (learnt) source of content to post
All the details can be found in this post launching THE CTP GRIND CHALLENGE
Take a look, get involved, learn something new, have some fun doing it. Go On... You know you want to !!!
I said earlier that in doing this challenge you could have a ready made source of ideas for your next post, well that's exactly where i'm heading with my something new. Learning to Code.
This is something I've meaning to do for some time, but never really did anything about it. But, since I finally got round to installing Linux Mint on my latest laptop, (I've never been a Microsoft/Windows fan, and dumping it for Linux is always the first job I do), I figured I'd jump in and see what was around to help with starting my coding journey. Yes I've picked up bits and pieces of HTML knowledge over the years, was fairly involved in programming macro's in Excel, and constructing and automatting Access databases, so the foundations are there I guess but I've never formally gone down the route of creating a website and/or pages.
So, Google became a friend for an hour, and gave a number of options for potential editors to use on my journey. I learned very quickly that one editor in particular seemed to be at the top of most "experts" lists, as one of the most feature rich, easy to use editors available, and suitable to learn and code in any language that is currently available - Visual Studio Code. I would have to stifle my hatred of Microsoft, however, as they are behind this platform. But, its available for Linux, and it's free so there is an upside.
So a click of the download button, and a few minutes later I had my editor, and was eager to get started. Unusally for me I decided that firstly I familiarise myself with the layout, the interface, the menus, the settings, some of the functionalty of the software and any other buttons etc, i could click on before i moved on to try (and probably fail at the creation side of things). Google again became a friend in finding me a whole host of links and you tube videos on getting started with VS Code, before even entering a single line of code, which was invaluable.
Having started to understand the system, a bit better, i decided to end my learning for today there, and take the next step ... actually creating a page tomorrow.
So there we have it... my journey to being a coder has begun, and I'm quite excited that I've taken that first leap. The journey continues tommorrow on #thectpgrind.
Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!
