Starting out on Project week I was beyond excited to put together my own gem. I attended the study group for class that week that went over set up, and thought I pretty much understood how to set it up and what to do. So I started coding, working on mimicking things I’d done in past labs dealing with classes and/or scraping. By the end of the first week I had written lots of code but … it wasn’t working.
While learning to code, I’ve been introduced a more than just programming languages. There’s lots of coding specific phrases and jargon to learn too. I’ve started a little cheat sheet of terms to know and interesting code specific phrases. In my last entry, I touched on where the term “bug” came for in computer programming (coined by Grace Hopper when a moth flew into the machine). Now, I’ll be sharing some of my cheat sheet of terms with you.
“Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, ‘We’ve always done it this way.’ I try to fight that. That’s why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.”- Grace Hopper.