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Old Projects, New Skills

Just a small post today, remarking on how it is amazing the lengths one can go in the period of a year or so, just from practice.

I was recently looking through old coding projects from a course, hoping to fix/complete and ones that had not been working. Sure enough, looking at an issue I had in one of them, I realized the problem I was having was the essentially the same as a programming problem I had solved for a coding contest over the summer! And thus, it was an easy fix to get the project in 100% working order. Just goes to show that practicing even little/not overly difficult problems can help keep your skills sharp, and develop new ones. It was good to look through some larger code bases, too, as being able to navigate lots of code is also a skill that can always use more practice.


It’s been a while

Goodness, it’s been what, about half a year?

Life has been moving both slowly and quickly at the same time. So much has happened – I spent a semester abroad in France, learned a ton, came back, and then returned to school – currently experiencing a little culture shock (College is a very different experience there!)  but am re-settling in well enough.

Soon I’ll be graduating (ack), so I am currently working on my own proper site that won’t disappear in a few months. Hoping to make some custom WordPress stuff. All I need is to find enough time to get it up and running!