22 3 / 2011
8 months later - Make Mistakes
For the last two days, I have been working on CropZoom, a jQuery plugin, for Housefed. If you read the post before this one, you’ll see I was looking for a Python library to handle the image resizing. I was able to find a Python solution, but it wasn’t the best fit for the problem, so I did a U turn and looked at jQuery.
This simple story epitomizes the last 8 months that I’ve spent learning to code- you have to make mistakes. If you don’t make any mistakes, you won’t progress. The people who make the most mistakes in the quickest amount of time, learn the fastest. You get introduced to different languages, find the gapping holes in your understanding, and try to piece everything together with your limited knowledge. Initially, you may not figure out all of the little nuances to the problem, but overtime you will remember, revisit, and recognize where you went wrong.
So start asking the dumb questions, get lost, scratch your knees, pull your hair out. The more times you want to kick yourself in the butt now, the fewer times you will down the road. If you aren’t making mistakes, you aren’t doing it right.
