Hello, i’m writing this to start a journey of programming for you, as well as an index of my journey. I want to write this blog in hopes that anyone that reads this knows what it may feel like to start programming at it’s beginning stages. Just like anything in life, getting started is the hardest part. Prior to taking the App Academy’s online bootcamp, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. About 2 weeks into the program I can honestly say that this journey has paid off. You are going to learn a lot and you are also going to fail at a lot of different aspects of programming. My advice to you (and it’s not a lot) is that you need to know what it is that is making your program fail in order to make it a functional program.

Lets take a look into my first couple of attempts at programming.

You can see here that this is an array of numbers. An array is basically a list of numbers or strings. An array is a very dynamic way of getting a list of data. You can have a list of animals, cars, colors, pretty much anything. The great thing about arrays is that you can manipulate them. The more in depth you get into programming the more you will see it as being able to manipulate data into virtually anything.

The second set of data you can have is an object. An object is any noun that can hold a value. For instance you can have an object that has a count. I.E. cat: 3, dog: 4, bird: 2. This is a very dynamic way of being able to store data and just like the array you are also able to manipulate this data. You can add more to your object as well as take numbers out. Lets take a look at an example.

The point of this blog is that I want to share information that i’ve learned thus far. Though  these data structures are primitive, it’s the basics that makes you build on a foundation. I’m not saying that I am an expert but it’s always good to know where and how you started. Just like being able to store data into arrays, I want to store my journey on this word press in hopes that one day anyone that comes across this knows that there are many aspects of programming that is very frustrating.

I encourage anyone that reads this or has any intention of starting their own journey into computer programming to log their journey as well. The coding community is far and very few so being able to share any information along the way is going to make big strides in making programming accessible and for everyone.