Daniela’s IT Journey

 Today I started studying something amazing. Udemy’s Full Stack course by Angela Yu, the founder of the London App Brewery.   It’s a comprehensive course on HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The teacher Angela is so well-spoken, articulate and supportive that learning with her is easy and truly inspiring. I’ve decided to commit every Saturday morning for this course. That is, if I can keep my hands off of it. Things I learned today: HTML attributes Comments <!- -  - -> <em> is better than <i>, and <strong> is better than <b> Some of the biggest IT gurus have homepages only with HTML (so don’t be too ashamed of your first 90s style site). John Kleinberg is a good example. Cool websites I discovered today: Codepen.io (try HTML, CSS and Javascript) W3schools.com (HTML codes) Devdocs.io (HTML codes) Internet Archive Wayback Machine (see how famous websites looked back in the day) Unicode-table.com (emojis for HTML) With the help of the course I star...

 The orientation week for the ICT Expert training at JAMK is over. Eight days of new, at times even baffling and complex information and course introductions. I’m sure I’m not the only in our group who felt like being thrown out of an airplane above an ocean and told to swim. In the end, most things fell into place and I’m starting next week’s studies with an open mind and an enthusiastic spirit ( enthusiastic is one of my favourite words to teach my *EFL students, by the way!) Things on my mind at the beginning of the orientation week and the outcomes : Will I be out of place among people who have prior knowledge of coding? No . I wasn’t the only one without any prior experience. There should be around 10 beginners (me included). But it didn’t even really matter as everyone, even those with plenty of work experience in IT, were very kind and helpful. No one was judgemental. What if I change my mind and realise software development is not for me after all? What if I regret resi...

 Hi, I’m Daniela but you can call me Dani. I’m a 33-year old English & Fine Arts teacher living in Finland and who has dived head first into the exciting world of IT and coding. This is the beginning of my IT journey. How exciting is that! The journey begins at JAMK, the University of Applied Sciences in Jyväskylä where I’ll be taking a nine-month long course about software development. What do I know about software development? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I’m a rookie. I’m a noob. But one has to start from somewhere so… here we go! :D