As mentioned in my post Reboot, I’ve been working on a Full-Stack development course. Let’s check in after a month?

I’ve completed 7 of the 53 lecture hours, reviewing HTML and mostly learning CSS for the first time (the age of CSS is when I stopped “doing” code-based web-dev – I’ve always been capable of hacking it, but now I get it).

I’m trying to fit at least one session in per night and that’s going pretty well. Since I have experience in this stuff I’m able to listen to most of the lectures at up to 2x speed, which saves even more time.

I do struggle with not working ahead. A lot of lectures will end with something looking like crap, but I can’t sleep with that so I code up better solutions, and even in the age of Git and revision history, spend a lot of time retracing my steps to have something working the way it was supposed to be for the start of the next lecture. I’m going to think of it as extra credit.

The site I’ve created is incredibly simple and nothing I’ll publish for real use any time soon, but it was a fun exercise in creating a responsive and CSS-driven site.

https://iammike.github.io/css-my-site/

The biggest takeaway was being able to resolve an issue on my blog that had been nagging me for years. The course taught me to identify where the problem existed and the fix was easy.