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For the past six weeks I’ve been at Recurse Center (RC). Today is the halfway point of my time here, so I spent some time reflecting on what I had learned and accomplished so far, and assessing what I’d like to focus on for the next six weeks. One of the things I’d like to do is blog more often (which I haven’t really done, hah), so this may be a doozie.
Let's start with the two main reasons I wanted to come to RC:
If I were to extend these reasons into specific goals, we'd get:
I had a whole list of projects that I thought could be fun that would help me achieve these goals, such as:
It's been six weeks. How did I do addressing these goals? Let’s take a look at what I have learned and built over the past six weeks:
If I were to sum this up, I’d say I’ve focused on the following things:
Which isn’t so bad! That’s a nice diversity, and I think I addressed about half of my goals. I fell short on the last few goals listed above.
I have six more weeks left of RC. I don’t need to have the same goals now as I did six weeks ago. So, here’s what I’m thinking:
For the “deep dive,” I’m thinking of writing a really simple version of React using pure JavaScript. For pairing, I’m thinking of pairing on parts of the above project, as well as other small-ish projects like continuing Elm and building something in p5. For blogging once a week, I hope to blog on what I’m learning / working on / noticing. For learning algorithms, I think I’ll start the Princeton algorithms course (I was doing the Stanford one, but I didn’t particularly enjoy it).
Well. That’s what I’ve done, and that’s what I plan to do. Bada bing.
23 Sep 2016