Finding My NEW Drug of Choice After my first experience with CodeAcademy (CA), I knew that I was hooked. Literally, addicted. I’m a learner AND an achiever, and so the format of CodeAcademy was the perfect way for me to begin learning HTML and CSS. Yes, correctly completing a lesson, getting a green check and…

Starting from (just about) Zero How do you even begin to start thinking about learning to code on your own? The only thing that I ever really knew about HTML was how to do use the “a href” tag in the text editor in WordPress. That was it.  Seriously.  In thinking about how I could…

Why “20 Hours Ahead”?: The idea is the same behind idea behind Josh Kaufman’s “The First 20 Hours”*, at least as I understand part of it (see his video below). There is the rapid learning that takes place (and I’m an avid learner!), but there’s also the idea that you only need about 20 hours…