WEEK 1

 

Journal Log week #1

Struggles

    My schedule is packed right now. There are so many things that I want to learn. If you look at my         schedule it is really packed tightly.

    I am also struggling with how to apply the things that I've learned. the CS50 problem set 3 Plurality took me at least two days to finish. and now that I think of it there are still two other problem sets which are Runoff and Tideman which will be harder as well.

    I am also having conflicting issues on whether I should relearn the things that I've learned before, like on Open Appacademy is probably a repeat of Freecodecamp and also Codecademy. I feel like my journey is in a loop of tutorial hell goddamnit

    I have some project ideas but there is not enough room for my projects here in my schedules hopefully I could create some free time and create some application that I like 

    Also, I have started reading a lot of books about computer science learning different types of topics like pointers and binary trees but I haven't finished reading most of the books that I've started to read.

Insights or Things to improve

    1. I need to improve my time management skills

    2. I also need to learn efficiently 

    3. I also need to learn how to apply all of my theoretical knowledge by making projects

    4. there are a lot of jobs you can have when you finish Computer Science

    5. https://github.com/P1xt/p1xt-guides is a good resource and a guide to learning Computer Science            as a self-taught programmer

    6. I should not give up if I am struggling at doing a task instead I need to take a break 

    7. my writing style 

    8. my physical health is important

Reasons Why Coffee is Bad

    this is the first of many headings to try to convince myself that coffee is bad 

    1. It makes me sleepy when I don't drink coffee

    2. It makes me anxious whenever I drink too much

    3. It lowers my productivity if I don't drink it

    4. It probably ruins my mental health

   

    How to avoid drinking coffee

        1. Drink water when thinking of coffee

        2. say to my mind that coffee is bad

What I learned overall in this week

Programming is very hard but I should the difficulty of learning how to program as a challenge for myself and to help my future self. 

I should also look at myself and see how far I have gone and if I look at my past on when I started programming it was back when I was in grade 7 on where our computer teacher back then taught us HTML and CSS but back then I wasn't really interested in programming since it was one of the courses that were introduced by us in each quarter the other three being wood arts, cooking, and bookkeeping. In grade 8 that is when things started getting interesting, we learned CodeAcademy a site that teaches basic programming languages to kids we were taught again the basics of HTML and CSS and that was it. In grade 9 our curriculum was changed and we went to software development into knowing how to animate and create buildings it was fun but by then I have forgotten and probably didn't care about programming anymore but I became interested again in programming in Senior High when our career teacher taught us how to plan our future and I look back at what are my skills and there is programming I began to search some things and I started coding on FCC. each day I probably spent at least 20-30 mins of learning how to code on FCC. it was a very slow process of learning but then suddenly when summer came I have a lot of free time then I started learning how to code from 20-30 mins each day to probably 2-3 hours each day may be a lot more than that. 

small habits are really important if I want to introduce a new habit I should do it in a very small amount of time probably 5 mins everyday. and when I get interested I can add more time. 

time is very important in improving our skills 

 

 Simplicity

  I want to improve but when I recall some of the topics that were taught to us in chemistry that everything will all come to their proper state
  water that is frozen will comeback as water again. Then what is my proper state lazy, dumb, or something idk. but somehow or another if I go to
  a right environment like water on the poles of the earth they will stay frozen solid for a very long time. I have to find that environment that
  will make my productivity strengthened.

 repetition

  there is book that I've read that repetition is key to making habits and strengthening. the book also says that micro habits or specific habits
  can make intangable habits better to grasp

 going for the smallest thing instead of the largest

  there is always a phrase that comes to my mind whenever I do task it is "divide and conquer" it has always been in my mind but I never really applied it's message so right probably I need to recognize the smallest possible steps I could take to become a succesful programmer or a person who has knowledge to computers or even other types of technology like biomechanics which I am also interested in but I am afraid that my time will split into many sectors of knowledge so right I should probably focus more on the software side of computers which is by learning some of the languages then applying them to some projects probably by copying some of the other's people project first then making my own with the guidance of the google.

 trouble

  whenever there is anything that is on my way that can't be easily surpassed I just try to avoid and go to other direction I sometimes tell myself that it will hinder my learning process

 flexibility and time management

  there are times when things don't go as plan I can't sleep because my sleep was interupted, when things don't go as planned the whole balance of my lifestyle
  will be in shambles so I need to find a way to