So a goal of mine since reading this incredible article about Jennifer Dewalt is to code 30 programs/projects in 30 days. Uploading everything to my github.com account with an accompanying blog post. Some of the larger projects will be done incrementally. Doing as much as I can each day and uploading that version of what I got done in an Agile ( albeit develop, test and release in a 1 day ) format. If I can reach 30, I'd like to continue and set a new stretch goal.
Project Outline / Goals:
1. Build a different program/project everyday for 30 consecutive days.
2. Every website must be accompanied by a blog post.
3. Any code I write must be made publicly available so that everyone can see it.
4. Projects can build upon others, but a working version must be released each day.
Benefits:
- Being able to develop whatever I want through directed self-study increases motivation
- Making and seeing incremental progress on projects
- Being accountable/visible to/for my code leads to proper practices like readability, comments, unit tests
- Improving and expanding a diverse set of programming skills
- Effects on Social Life
- Demands of a Full Time Software Engineering job can be draining
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