jenniferDewalt

I saved up some money so I could take the time to learn to code full time. I'm single and I eat a lot of ramen noodles.

I love the idea of exploring the cuisine of other countries in a systematic way! Besides being super delicious, what a fun way to share a learning experience with family and friends.

I really like Open Note as well and it's definitely on the table for a more fleshed out reboot in the coming weeks.

Toward the end of the project, I started having trouble coming up with ideas that I could do in just one day. I started getting really excited about building bigger, more involved projects. That's when I knew 180 days was exactly the right time-frame for the project.

As a side note, I have on countless nights been coding in my sleep. Sometimes I'll wake up realizing there is a bug in yesterday's code or having gained some insight on a new concept. Other times I wake up and wonder why I was trying to code an app to cook me ramen noodles.

I agree :)

Thanks for the kind words!

Making a website a day takes a lot of time. I've been working on this project full-time and on average worked for 10 hours a day including weekends. I'm looking forward to getting my social life back!

I am really glad I am not the only one who has experienced this! It really has been a strange and annoying phenomenon.

I don't have a formal list right now but I do have a folder full of random bookmarks which I'll do something with at some point. I always keep a window open with tabs to Stack Overflow, jQuery docs, Underscore docs, and Ruby on Rails Guides (if I am using Rails that day). I usually keep another window open with tabs to styling tools like http://www.colorhexa.com/.

That is a really great idea! I am definitely sticking that one in my queue.

I had been thinking about how people communicate with each other on the internet and I got really interested in how websites facilitate that communication. I figured learning how to code would be a good way to see how those websites work and maybe even get to help build them myself.

I wrote a little about this here - http://blog.jenniferdewalt.com/post/53231496490/week-11-lets...

I totally agree. This project is meant to be a jumping off point for learning to code. On day 180 I certainly won't be an expert at anything, but I'll have the tools I need to keep exploring.

Absolutely! When making art, you often go through a 'research' phase where you make a lot of sketches, models, mock-up, etc. Most of it is garbage but at the end you've prepared yourself to tackle the real thing. I sometimes think of this project as a really intense version of that process.

I saved up some money so that I could learn to code full time.

Oh wow, I love that story! Thanks for sharing.

I've never been diagnosed :)

Just before I started the project, I looked around the internet for some resources to see what I was getting myself into. There are so many awesome places to get information out there. Stack Overflow, the Wikipedia, demos, tutorials, documentation. I spend about 10 hours a day working on the project and the vast majority of that time is me digging through those amazing resources.

Before I started the project I freaked out and wrote down a list of every idea I could think of. Sometimes I feel like I'm going to run out of ideas but I usually get inspired by what I've been working on.

I spend about 10 hours a day working on the project which doesn't leave time for much else. Most of that time is spent coding the day's website and I spend about an hour at the end of the day writing the blog post. Monday's start with me writing a bigger post about my thoughts from the previous week.

Thanks for the tip! I added my email address.