One huge advantage that attracted me to Flatiron School over other, similar coding schools was the opportunity to work 100% remote on a flexible schedule. This was something that I absolutely needed since I was not able to quit my day job while I learned this new skill. This type of schedule does have one disadvantage; however, and that is the possibility of needing to take some time off due to other conflicting priorities. Although the school has done a great job of keeping me on task, I was forced to evacuate due to a hurricane and had to take around 2 weeks off during the early days of courses. “That’s not a huge deal,” I thought, “I’m ahead in the course work anyway, so I’ll be fine.”
You’ve made it through another section of labs and you’re finally starting to feel like you’re getting the hang of this coding thing, so what do you do now? Sure, you can just continue on to the next set of classes and labs and follow the Learn.co corriculum as written, but maybe you want to do some coding in the real world first to test your understanding. You’re probably thinking “Yeah! That sounds great!” but now the question is how to get started? Let me tell you about my favorite method (<– see what I did there?) for practicing code on my own.
Tell me if this sounds familiar: