Born and raised in SIlicon Valley, my entire life I have been smothered in technology. My mom is an executive at a cyber-security company and my dad is a CEO for a tech start-up, so tech is our thing. As a teenager in the 21st century, I’m constantly using my phone or computer, naturally. Enough said, coding surrounds me. You. All of us.
Coding is everywhere, yet so little know how to do it. Result? The opportunities are like an empty field (pun intended) of gold... or jobs. Knowing this, I wanted to learn to code to open myself to the opportunities it presents (and get some gold). Not to mention, I get street cred with all the neighbors AKA the high tech companies.
Specifically, my project is to learn how to code using HTML5 and CSS a biology website. I’ll learn a language of code, embrace the area, and discover more in-depth on the topic I choose to cover.
A 20 time project is a project picked by the student to explore more about a topic that interests them, using 20% of their class time. As I said before, I chose this because I want to open myself up to more areas of work. I want to learn more about something that greatly affects our lives. Knowing this, my essential question is “Why code.”
My short-term goals are to continue completing the exercises provided by codecademy.com. Long term, I would like to finish the lesson (approx. 10 hours). Overall, I want to code a website.
Currently, I’m measuring my progress by monitoring the exercises I’ve completed. Right now, I’m 49% through the lesson. My progress will be measured over what I’ve completed, and eventually, my work towards the website.
Every day for 20 time, I will learn the code through the exercises. Once I complete that, I will judge if I need additional practice. If so, I can work on another lesson. After that, I will figure out what topic to put on the site. Then, I’ll work on the code for the website.
