The migraine is gone, happily. The pain isn’t. But I’m up and at ’em, ready for work to start before long. I don’t want to lose this little video: Five stitches you need to know if you’re a beginner crocheter…
One Term Down!
I can’t recall whether or not I mentioned that I returned to college on 1 June of this year, but I did. I’m attending Western Governors University, majoring in Information Technology/Software Development. It’s a completely online curriculum; each term is…
Free Courses Online
I’ve been looking into online education lately, beyond my experiment with learning programming (which is still ongoing). These are some of the resources I’ve identified. They’re all free, although you don’t get college credit for the courses. Coursera – courses…
Learning to Code, Part 5
I just can’t stay away from Codecademy. I went back and finished the Web Fundamentals course. I had been waiting because there’s JavaScript involved in the last few assignments, but it turns out I was able to do those without…
Learning to Code, Part 4
After looking around at the Q&A forums at Codecademy and finding that most of the other beginners are as lost as I am, I’ve decided that maybe I’m stuck on the current lesson because the author just isn’t very good,…
Learning to Code, Part 3
I got a response from Codecademy acknowledging that the problem I experienced was on their end. They gave me some code that would let me get past that lesson, but it contained a variable that wasn’t mentioned in the lesson.…
Learning to Code, Part 2
I’m still exploring Codecademy, which has proven to be a very interesting site. I made it through their JavaScript Fundamentals and found that I wanted to know more, so I started on their Code Year project, which picks up right…
Learning to Code, part 1
I’ve decided that I want to learn basic programming, and I’ve decided to document my journey here. I already know basic HTML and some CSS. I don’t (yet) know HTML 5, but that’s going to be part of my eventual…
Technophilia: Get a free college education online
I adore LifeHacker. They have a sweet list of free online college courses!
Online Courses Not for Everyone
It shouldn’t be surprising to anyone that education is not a “one size fits all” endeavor, online or elsewhere. This bit about learning styles, however, did surprise me: “Correlations between learning styles and success in distance education have shown to…