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Hi, my name is Idman

Welcome to my first post!

I'm reading 'The Software Craftsman' by Sandro Mancuso and he advises that every developer should have some sort of blog to document their learning and progress - so here I am.

This blog is for me to look back on and hopefully see improvement in my understanding of the technologies I'm learning. Also, I've benefited immensely from developers documenting their journeys and sharing tips. Maybe this will be useful to a beginner at some point.

I've been enrolled on a bootcamp for 6 weeks now and, prior to the bootcamp, I had a bit of experience with HTML and CSS so the learning curve wasn't too steep.

Then we started JavaScript

My background is in social science and education, so the last time I solved a logical problem involving numbers was probably during my maths GCSEs, which were nearly a decade ago!

I've spent the past week solving beginner's-level JavaScript katas just to get my brain re-accustomed to conditional logic and reasoning. A tip that has helped a non-maths-inclined individual like myself is to: break down the problem in digestible bits and think of how you'd solve it in real-life.

I'm hoping that the JavaScript content I've learnt so far will become less abstract once I apply it to the projects I'm working on.