This week, I accomplished my goal of finishing up my budget app tutorial with the JavaScript course I'm currently taking. In a final step for me, I took a huge piece of paper and copied out the overall structure and functions of the app. Now...is it totally finished/complete and does it finally give me the opportunity to move on to the next project right away?!
Certainly not!
In fact, I'm going to be taking it apart first thing next week (dare I say... deleting all the code?!) and redoing it from a place of more familiarity with the overall structure and functionality of the entire app and how its components all fit together. I'm feeling excited about it, but also sad that I have to delete all ~450 lines of the app's code. Maybe I should print it out for nostalgia's sake...
Anywho, we're off to the French countryside for an impromptu weekend en famille. Since I won't be coding, I'm looking forward to hitting the ground running come Monday. Ciao!
This post was originally published on March 6, 2020 on my blog.
Top comments (2)
Wait, so you are saying that you've done a project by following a tutorial, and then you want to delete it and do it by yourself all over again?
Yes! The latest one I've done with this is a budget app tutorial along with a JS Udemy course, and I probably did it and re-did it four or five times. It took that many times for the information to sink in and for me to really see how each part of the program fit together.