First Blog Post - Coding

While I am waiting to see if my first blog post uploads (in the tutorial it said it could take a few minutes), I decided to explain my experience with coding so far. I was unable to come to class last week because of the stomach flu, so I already feel lost. The first week went really well for me in class. I felt that I was understanding p5 and was excited to try to create my images. When I attempted them throughout the week I realized that triangles were my least favorite to code! One small point move could affect the whole shape.
So I decided to grab some graph paper and draw out the picture I wanted to create. This helped me a lot! I then knew the coordinates, the width and length of the shapes, etc. So I feel pretty comfortable with the basic p5.

Now that I missed a week I am unsure about everything else. The thing that is frustrating me most at the moment is trying to get my blog to post. I finally got atom synced to my github, I am saving and syncing, but it is not showing up on my blog. As Todd’s title suggests, “Coding is Hard”. I have zero experience with this, but hopefully after tomorrow I will feel a little more comfortable again.

My first week’s Dallies are complete and I am going into the lab early tomorrow to try and do the second week’s Dallies. I have to figure out how to submit them still. Either way, during my first week of coding I figured out how to create a cat, so I call that successful!