Introduction

Howdy y'all! My name is Bill. I am a 46 year old former over-the-road trucker driver, having driven roughly 600,000+ miles from coast to coast. Of the lower 48 states, there are only two that I haven't traveled to; Washington state and Maine. I met my wife in December of 2003, when she worked as a cashier at a truck stops in Haubstadt, Indiana. We've been together ever since. We live in Texas with our Maltipoo, Noah, and our cat, Ninji. For several years I have been interested in learning to code, but never really had the opportunity until the past few months. A little over a month ago I began learning a few things here and few things there, to see if coding is something I wanted to dedicate time to. I watched YouTube videos to get an idea what coding is really like. Not only that, I've researched employment opportunities,  potential job market growth, pay scale etc, to see if the time dedicated was worth it in the long game. It certainly seems so! Not only am I new to coding, I'm new to blogging. I'm a very private person, and I don't air my business all over the place. In fact, I do have a FaceBook page, but only 1 friend, my wife. It's just a way to share pictures and to send each other links through Messenger.There is a site that Kevin Powell mentioned in his a YT video that I saw: Scrimba. On a side note, Kevin Powell (which I will leave links at the end of this post) has several YT videos teaching mainly CSS. This man is a CSS wizard, and a great teacher. Anyway, I checked out the Scrimba website, and they have a lot of videos teaching Front End Development, but with a nifty twist; you do all the practices inside the video I think that's pretty cool! Anyway, they have a lot of free video lessons, or, they have three payment options for all the courses plus some extras. I plan on doing all the free videos first. Or, I might just go ahead and do the "Pro" version, but I think I'm going to wait a few months and see how things are looking as far as learning goes. Sorta like try it before you buy it. 

Here are the free lessons I will be doing and in which order if anyone is interested. I don't expect too many to interested as the intention of this blog is for me to record my thoughts, and things to work on and a study plan to follow. I know there might be a few people who view this blog, but the goal of this blog is largely personal. I'm not sure how often I'll update this blog, but I plan on keeping it fairly fresh. But, I digress. Here is the list. 

 

HTML & CSS

1. Learn HTML and CSS w/ Per Borgen

2.HTML & CSS Crash Course w/ Kevin Powell

3. Learn Flexbox w/ Per Borgen

4. Learn CSS Grid w/ Per Borgen

5. Learn CSS Variables w/Per Borgen

6. Build a Space Travel Website

7. Learn Bulma CSS w/ Zaydek Gualtieri

8. Learn Bootstrap w/ Neil Rowe

9. Learn UI Design Fundamentals w/Gary Simon

JavaScript

1. Learn JavaScript w/ Per Borgen

2. Learn Typescript w/ Ania Kubow

3. Introduction to ES6+ w/ Dylan Israel

4. Learn Regular Expressions w/ FreeCodCamp

5. Learn D3 w/ Sohaib Nehal

6. Build a Color Tool in Vanilla JavScript w/ James Quick

React

1. Learn React w/ Bob Ziroll

2. Learn Class Components in Reacat w/ Bob Ziroll

3. Learn React Router 6 w/ Bob Ziroll

Python

1. Learn Python w/ Olof Paulson

Imba

1. Learn Imba w/ Nathan Manousos

Miscellaneous

1. Build AI Apps with ChatGPT, Dall-E and GPT-4 w/ Tom Chant

2. Build a Mobile App with Firebase w/ Rafid Hoda

3. Introduction to Unit Testing w/ Dylan Israel

4. Build and Deploy Your Portfolio w/ Kevin Powell

 

Here are some links for those who are interested.

Scrimba: scrimba.com

Kevin Powell's website:kevinpowell.co

Be sure to check out Kevin's YouTube channel as well! youtube.com/kevinpowell

I'll share more links as I come across them and if I think they are beneficial. God bless!