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A couple of months after quitting my coding endeavors, the idea of giving up really started to bother me. I felt like a mentally weak loser and it felt like a direct contrast to the character that I had spent years developing. Determined to overcome this horrendous feeling, I started to systematically approach programming in a different way. As the saying goes. “Insanity is Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again and Expecting Different Results.” The biggest problem that I had as I was using online resources to learn was that I was seeing the trees but not the forest. I was able to understand a variable, for loop, if – else conditions but unable to piece them all together to write working code. After searching google, I found a reddit post that recommended a site called teamtreehouse. It had a 10 day free trial and I was determined to learn how to code. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As strange as it sounds, my real understanding of programming began with HTML and CSS. On the teamtreehouse site, I spent the first week dabbling with HTML and CSS and understanding what purpose they served on a web application. I became acquainted with all the different HTML elements like <div>, <body>, <p>, <span>, etc. And the different ways to add color and style to the elements via CSS. It was finally in the 2nd week where I learned about Javascript. All the manual DOM insertion and styling that I had done with HTML & CSS, it can be done programmatically with JavaScript. <\/strong>As I took small steps in using Javascript to style HTML elements or insert them as a child of a parent element. It became clear to me when and why programming is used. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Through the use of Javascript programming for DOM manipulation, coding finally made sense to me.<\/strong> Coding was feeding the computer instructions to accomplish a task. This realization was a monumental moment for me and helped me greatly in my programming and academic journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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