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Jennifer Dewalt
Personal blog · blog.jenniferdewalt.comprogrammingcareer
Jennifer Dewalt writes Tumblr, a personal blog at blog.jenniferdewalt.com about programming and career. Since 2013, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jennifer Dewalt's posts about learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days, including her learning path and her project wrap-up.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I made one website a day, every day, for 180 days. You can check out the project at jenniferdewalt.com. I'm also on GitHub and Twitter.
Most-linked posts?
- I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 1156 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2013-07-24
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-07-14
What Hacker News says?
I had been thinking about how people communicate with each other on the internet and I got really interested in how websites facilitate that communication. I figured learning how to code would be a good way to see how those websites work and maybe even get to help build them myself. I wrote a little about this here - http://blog.jenniferdewalt.com/post/53231496490/week-11-lets...
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on “I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115”Submitted I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115 as a story · 1542 points
HN discussionThis kind of dedication is inspiring. From http://blog.jenniferdewalt.com/post/51616616313/day-58-explo... : "Tomorrow I head to Pennsylvania to host a bridal shower and bachelorette weekend for my sister. Between the pre-wedding festivities and visiting with family, I’m going to be pretty limited on time for building websites. But, the show must go on and I am excited to see what kind of goodness I can create under…
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on “I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115”Submitted After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder as a story · 624 points
HN discussionThanks. When she was at 115 days, she wrote a blog post and it pretty much summarises her learning path. http://blog.jenniferdewalt.com/post/56319597560/im-learning-...
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on “After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder”Submitted Day 180: Finished as a story · 362 points
HN discussionShe did: http://blog.jenniferdewalt.com/archive
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on “After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder”Submitted My First Year of Coding as a story · 239 points
HN discussion180 websites in 180 days http://blog.jenniferdewalt.com/post/56319597560/im-learning-...
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on “How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math”Submitted Week 23: Changes as a story · 104 points
HN discussionSome background to this project: http://blog.jenniferdewalt.com/post/56319597560/im-learning-... (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6097155 )
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on “Day 180: Finished”Submitted The Myth of the Creative/Logic Dichotomy as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThank you! Electro bounce is one of my favorites as well :) 180 websites is mostly Rails backed. The first 68 pages are served out of the public folder and almost everything else was done with Rails. The last week is all done with Node.js. YumHacker uses Rails as an API on the backend, and Backbone,js for the front end. Zube uses Node.js and Backbone.js. Edit: Here's a blog post I wrote after finishing the 180 Websi…
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on “How I Built 180 Websites in 180 days and became a YC Fellowship Founder”Submitted Solve today's problems as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'd like to do this too. Is there any interest in creating a subreddit for people who're interested in doing their own "game/website/app every day/week/month"? Just a place to chat about what they're doing, encourage and inspire each other, etc. It's inspiring to read about projects like these. Related: http://blog.jenniferdewalt.com/post/56319597560/im-learning-...
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on “12 websites in 12 months”>I don't know what it was but it probably wasn't coding. You're right, I wasn't coding. I waste a lot of time on the internet not being productive, so I'll change this. I signed up for a codecademy account recently, so I'll challenge myself by doing some exercises there daily. >So now you have to ask yourself, what are you willing to give up? I think I'm finally ready to give up all of my distractions. I'm getting s…
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on “Ask HN: How do I become a Software Developer?”To be frank with you, start working, hard. This is going to be your largest huddle. When you read this message, what were you doing? On Facebook (or some other social media)? On some game? Watching your giant Netflix queue? I don't know what it was but it probably wasn't coding. And if it was, then good! You're already on your way. I honestly don't mean any of that to be mocking. I am just saying, a lot of people fa…
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on “Ask HN: How do I become a Software Developer?”Practice, try new things, learn more languages. Check out http://blog.jenniferdewalt.com/post/56319597560/im-learning-... .
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on “How did you go from being an adequate to exceptional programmer?”Go large. Do some fraction of something like this http://blog.jenniferdewalt.com/post/56319597560/im-learning-... Learn and make a Portfolio and get a lot Publicity at the same time - when you ask for work people could know your name. Blog or Web-cast then your journey can inspire many.
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on “Ask HN: Becoming a freelance web developer”
