Susanna Codes

Can't You See Me, For Me The title is a quote from 'Cardamom' by Weyes Blood. I know I named a paragraph in a recent blog post this but I just wanted to use it again. Putting in a picture of the Lac de Longemer again in the Vosges in France, like yesterday. When I was 15 years old I went to visit these lakes - the ones I keep picturing.  Once was just before my 15th birthday. I went twice. Once was just before my 16th. I don't know what to say about these lakes other then I love them. I don't know how to describe them other than I feel powerful around them. I feel powerful around them and I love them. I feel powerful around them and I love them. That is all. That is all. CodePens And Codecademy I have been making codepens on JavaScript and the DOM!!!  Here is one on creating and inserting elements Here is another one on traversing the DOM:  TRAVERSING THE DOM And HERE IS ONE MORE ON STYLING AN ELEMENT These are not actually done yet and I will write them up properly

Right Reasons Quoting Lana del Rey's Yosemite as usual - here we are again. I always try to do things for the right reasons. I always have done all my life. As I got older I like to think that I am getting better at figuring out what these right reasons are - love and understanding - what ever you are doing, do it out of those. Yosemite Well, first of all, here is a picture of not Yosemite. Here is a picture of the Lac de Longemer. It is another one of the lakes that I visited when I was nearly 15 and nearly 16 in France. And I just want to say this: Whenever I lose motivation it comes back to me. Somehow it comes back to me. It emerges from deep, deep, deep within my essence. Back To The Coding Jazz The Async Attribute What does the async attribute have IN COMMON with the defer attribute? Both of them alternate from the default: the default is that the browser will: - parse the document in order - parse all of the HTML up to the script - then DOWNLOAD THE SCRIPT IN FULL when it en

Beau Thank goodness for Beau by Martin Gauffin  I was not expecting this title but a song saved my life today.  I was feeling so low and so exhausted and so tired. And this song came on. And it just changed my life, didn't it? It's just so absolutely beautiful and such an uplifting song.   Here is the album artwork. Isn't it just so beautiful? This song saving me and helping me out today reminds me of the unexpected: just like in the way my life took the most unexpected of all twists when I found coding last August. Or rather, when coding found me. By the way this song is from Spotify's 'Coding Mode' playlist. It's so Zen. The Defer Attribute Still don't understand anything. In fact I feel as if I am understanding less and less. Here is a little codepen that I wrote on it anyway: HEEEEEEERE WE GO La la la la la la la la  the main thing about the defer attribute is that it downloads the javascript but IT WAITS TO RUN IT until ALL OF THE HTML ELEMENTS ON T

Look How I Got This, Look How I Got This from Lana del Rey, White Dress I feel really sad today and I don't know why.  I think it's because I'm so tired. We did a day in London of meetings yesterday. I got up at 5 am and got home at 1 am. It was a lot for me. Tiredness can definitely play with my emotions.  Having said that I had a lovely and wonderful catch-up with a mentor today and I feel so new and refreshed. She really managed to refresh me and inspire me. I am so so grateful for this! I am so grateful for her and all the new techniques she brings to me and to my learning. I really honestly don't know what I would have done without her!! 🤗 White Dress White Dress by Lana del Rey is one of the softest and gentlest songs that I have ever heard. In the beginning I could barely even listen to it because it was so soft and so gentle. I almost found it too much. But then I finally let it in. Like all of the good things in life, I finally let it in. I am obsessed with th

Cardamom Princess, Meets A Cardamom Boy Still quoting Cardamom by Weyes Blood. Still loving that song. Still loving the story-telling behind it. The way it tells a story. Because I still feel like I am in one now. It will never end. It will just keep going on forever. And that in itself is quite a mission to handle. And that in itself is quite a challenge. For those of us with a passion: It will always be a bit of a challenge, in a way, to keep it on going. Another lake that I love - the Lac de Lispach, in France. A little hike from the other one. "Summer Is Here, I Have Nothing To Fear" What are my values? What are my goals? What are my priorities? Contribution: it's really very very important for me and valuable for me to contribute to my employer.  Yes I have been training.  But now I want to bring a contribution, here, as well.  Tirelessness: Keeping my heart filled with love for the task.  Always. At all times. Always. My goal is always just over the next hill, a li

From When I Was Young 'Til Eternity All I want in this world is to be a Software Engineer. All that matters to me in this world is to be a Software Engineer. I'm still learning. I'm still learning. And look. I don't know what this route may look like just yet. But as of now we are still evaluating routes at work and looking through options.  We do have a plan with work but nothing is confirmed yet. But we do have a plan for some longer-term options. There are many questions to be answered in the long-term. Front-end or back-end? Will my current team remain the most appropriate one for me to work in once I am a bit more qualified? In the long-term what will I want to specialise in? Who knows?  I am on the right path. Whatever will come will come. Whatever may be may be. I know that I'm on the perfect journey. But you know what they say is "Dreams of dust crumble" - and this is not a dream of dust - this is my purpose of being and my raison d'être and I

Dance Till We Die Why this song? Because I love it so much. And it represents doing what we love forever. I certainly know I want to be doing what I love forever. Credit Card Checker part 2 I made some more progress with this and completed the second stage. I was a lot more independent than in part 1.  I did it myself and I did my own debugging and I got it right. I should be really proud of myself, I feel. I used my debugging kit from my colleague - a rubber duck and a whiteboard - and it made me really happy. Here is the code. All the problem solving skills that I learned on Friday really really helped me, I feel.  Here is the final part of that project. Mysterious Organism Project I have finished this project too. I HAVE FINISHED MY WHOLE JS SYNTAX PART II MODULE! Needle in a Haystack This was my first ever problem on Codewars.  I did it last week - maybe Wednesday? I can't really recall what day. It was pretty easy for me and so I didn't follow the full process but it was j

Do You Find What I Do Kinda Cool?  I'm quoting "Cardamom" as usual. She (singer Weyes Blood) means it as a songwriter. I mean it is a coder. I can't type much; I should be coding. One big thing I learned from my colleague today Well two.  I should be console.logging at every step to see what I am producing and I should be breaking down steps more before I start coding. Well three. He also told me to avoid 'magic variables' 👀 I wrote a few more CodePens: coding challenge I did with my colleague: subLength() And another one I got horribly stuck one: groceries() Credit Card Checker Oh my god this was so horrific. This was so hard. It was a project from Codecademy, and I was just not ready for it. I have broken it down into 3 steps: Well, 3 different functions that you need to write. And each function:  1. I attempt the solution myself and I inevitably fail. 2. I look up the solution. 3. I analyse the solution, I go through it, I dissect it, and I learn as much f

We just met, but I have to confess, I knew you, before, too I AM DONE WITH REVISING OH MY GOD NEVER EVER EVER AGAIN THANK YOU. Really. The line above is from the song 'Cardamom' by Weyes Blood (see previous post) but it is also how I feel about software engineering. It was so new to me and yet not new at the same time.  I felt like I'd always been doing it all my life.  Picture from Codecademy's Instagram of the interview they did with me. Time To Move On I am glad I did what I did but never again. I reckon I know enough about Objects to move. And I just proved myself right by going and solving a problem with them from my course, so this must be true! Back to some more coding challenges I did one on sorting Objects, as species of animals, through one of their properties via the .sort() method. In this case, it was the number of their teeth (on average). sortSpeciesByTeeth() - .sort() practice I have to admit, that I didn't really understand it.  But I decided to mov

I Know 'I Know' is a song by Bayonne that I really love.  WHY DOES LISTENING TO THIS SONG AGAIN MAKE ME FEEL LIKE EVERYTHING WILL ALL BE OKAY AND ALRIGHT IN THE WORLD AGAIN? Bayonne Just to complicate things a bit further though, there are three versions of it - even four. Live Loop Version - probably my favourite. OMG I LOVE it!!!  Acoustic Version - also a great one!!! I love it sooooo much too. Main Version - also a great one. A Remix - bit more of an acquired taste - but still nice. ...  More Bayonne I wrote some CodePens! CodePen on reverse arrays CodePen on greetAliens()  Using a for loop within a function body!!! CodePen on Baby Animals Whoooooop well done I am so proud of myself!!!  CodePen on pizza and on veggies And here's a little one I did with my senior colleague:  Cool stuff with .filter() and .includes()  Here's another way of doing it - an alternate version so to speak. Cool Stuff with nested loops After a few days' break to revise Objects and tak

Cardamom OH MY GOD HOLY MOLY After a whole day of renaming this blog a thousand times... I had to rename this post after Weyes Blood's Cardamom. I already know that Weyes Blood is going to change my life forever. I'm revising objects I'm revising objects.  As such I'm creating some codepens on them. Here they are: Creating Object Literals Accessing Properties Using Dot Notation  Accessing Properties Using Bracket Notation - Original Accessing Properties Using Bracket Notation - with variable Property assignment, re-assignment, and deletion  Methods Nested Objects I had my doubts about this but I am so glad that I have come back to them and am revising them.  I needed this cemented in my mind. Also, HOLY MOLY HOW AMAZING IS 'CARDAMOM'? The beautiful, stunning Weyes Blood.

You Want It Darker I'm not messing around. "You want it darker" is a song by Leonard Cohen.  I am Leonard Cohen obsessed. I absolutely love him. I started with his poetry book 'The Book of Longing'.  When I was 14. I just walked into the library at school one day and it was there. I read his poem about a 'magic cure'. It was just so relatable. That was half my life ago. I have listened to his CDs, covered countless of his songs, and even read one of his novels!!! ever since. And I barely ever even read. One last final .map() practice (well, at least for now...) I just had this little idea and I thought it would be fun to do. Basically, I just wanted to try out string interpolation and see how it would work with the .map() method. Errors and Debugging - Part II! (Again!!)  Tools for tackling code errors Dissect the Error When an error first appears on your screen, find the line in the error specific to your code. You want to find the part of the error mes