Beginning Of Week 3

Well, I haven't been updating this nearly as much as I was planning on, but really I've just been so busy programming I haven't even had the time. Almost every minute of my time that wasn't spent eating or sleeping over the past 2 weeks was spent up at Coder Camps, programming away. Today we were supposed to start learning angular, but Alex, our teacher, is sick today so we're watching videos he's recorded along with videos and exercises on Code School. So far it looks really cool and useful, can't wait to see its full potential.

Just to talk a little bit about camp in general: It's awesome. All of the staff up here are amazing people and are all very kind. As a camper you get 24/7 access to the building, and I've been taking complete advantage of that. A few other people in my troop, and a few from each of the troops ahead of me as well. One of my favorite things about camp is the environment. Not only do all of the staff seem like this is really where they want to be and are happy to be doing what they're doing, all of the campers are all dedicated to the program. No one's really slacking off because we all want this and paid a pretty penny to be where we are, not to mention the sacrifices the people with families had to make. It's great to be surrounded by such a great group of people, it makes it really easy to just come to camp when classes aren't going on and work on the latest project.

Speaking of projects, the first big one was a quiz app. The stretch goals on it nearly drove me insane, but I got there in the end and I'm really glad that I pushed myself to do it, because now I have a better understanding of basically everything I was working with. The most recent project was an app we all had different names for, I called mine "Chirpster." The focus of it was AJAX calls to your own firebase, and your friend's firebases, and having a live feed of Chirps. It was slightly difficult to to because even on Sunday at 5 PM less than half the people had even set up their profile or tweeted anything or had any friends added, so it was difficult to know when my program was failing to pull the data or if they formatted it incorrectly, or if it simply wasn't there at all.

Hopefully Alex will be back tomorrow, because I don't absorb the information as well when watching the guy on Code School talk, but I've only watched about three of the videos so far. I've heard that this weekend there's a big project, and then next week we start learning C#, which I've never touched or even looked at before, so hopefully I don't struggle to much with it. Until next time..

One More Week!

There's only one more week. For the past month I've been saying how much I want to be in Houston, and looking back it seems to have gone by really fast. I've done all of my prerequisites, taken the entrance exam and only missed one point because of a silly error I made, and now all there is left to do is wait and review.

I'm sitting here, at my computer, getting ready to go to sleep, it's storming outside, I have a bad sunburn from knee boarding and tubing on The Red River all day yesterday, and all I can think about is how ready I am to get started at camp. That said, it's going to be bittersweet. I'm not sure what the plans of my fellow troop members are, but for me, I'm planning on either staying in Houston or moving elsewhere. Either way, the plan is to not come back home. My parents, who I currently live with, just bought a boat three days ago, and spending all day on the boat with my immediate family made me realize how much I'm going to miss them.


This is definitely the right decision for me, however. I've put a lot of thought into all of my plans for the future, and this is what I want - wholeheartedly. As I said, I am incredibly eager to get started on this journey. I can't wait!