Code Year, Lesson 2 Part 1

I have a distinct memory of the first day of French 1 in college. I walked in confident that I would succeed. After all, I had been a successful Spanish student in high school; French was a romance language, ergo it wouldn’t be that different. Right? Well, I...

Code Year: Lesson 1

I’ve made it through (most of) Lesson1 of my “Getting Started with Programming” Course on Codeacademy and I’m already running into trouble! Nooo! Mind you, the first few exercises within the lesson felt like a breeze. Really, I figured...

Sails Up!

Hi! My name is Jenae. This is what I look like: I’m a first-year PhD student in the English Department at UC Davis and I’m going to do something I’ve never done before: I’m going to learn to code in JavaScript. Perhaps the title of this blog is...