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I was a little apprehensive at first because i had never coded before but knew just how difficult it is. I had seen the “99 little bugs in the code, 99 little bugs, Take one down, patch it around. 127 little bugs in the code!” meme float around Reddit a lot and knew how complex it can be. I took my time with each lesson but the learning process is slow and there is, in my opinion, a huge learning curve when it comes to learning how to code.
Like others have said before, learning how to code is very similar to learning a new language. The first lesson was relatively easy but it I did have to refer back to the tutorial a few times because simply forgetting one sign is enough for the whole code to break. After the first couple of lessons I felt a little more comfortable and felt like was finally understanding how HTML works. I became a little faster at understanding new concepts and putting them in practice.
It felt extremely rewarding when i did the “try it yourself” sections and my code actually worked. Every once in a while I’d click “Run it” and it would be a complete mess and I occasionally had a hard time understanding what was wrong and how to fix it. This is when i understood the importance of comments when it comes to coding. Write code slowly and document everything so that it is easy to come back to a certain part of the code and fix whatever is wrong.
One thing that I enjoyed about coding is that if felt a lot like writing legal citations. When citing a court case for example, there are rules such as whether the volume comes first, or the court’s name or even the year of the case. Everything is well-structured. Once you know how to cite a court case, you stop seeing random letters and numbers and instead immediately know where and when it happened and where to find the case. Coding was a lot like that. Once you master the rules of coding, things become a lot easier because you just follow the structure of the code using specific rules.
I would not feel confident putting HTML in my resume because I’m very much a novice and still cant really grasp how in-depth coding is. Overall this was a very interesting experience and was not surprised with the difficulties i encountered throughout the assignment.