Sometimes you just want the throw your computer out the window and forget learning anything. Seriously. Thankfully, today is not one of those days, but yesterday was and so was the day before. I'm actually doing really well with this tutorial, but the sheer amount of ways you can do things vs. the way you should is a little daunting. Not to mention there was a change at some point (I admit, I have no idea) and now the old way of Ruby-ing is now, well, old. So I spent some time learning about 'hash rockets' (which sounds like they should be something expensive you buy in Amsterdam), only to be told that No, that's ye olde way and now here's the new way. Just, bleh. At least now I am making relatively few mistakes as long as I go slowly and try to remember which bracket I need to use. So many brackets. Bracket-tastic.

I have to come up with something to post (is that the right word?) on Git and I do have any idea, but I'm not sure how much of it will even make sense yet. Git is strangely intimidating to me, possibly because it's full of people who know what they are doing, and I don't!

I suppose I really should tweet that there's a new post, shouldn't I? 

Sims related post coming soon, once I have some time! I promise. 

Success!

I just needed to share that I am 52% done on the Ruby tutorial. Which is probably equal to being 1% to learning all I need to know. However I feel pretty good about this! Currently I'm struggling with the 'Hashes and Symbols' section and they have dropped the whole idea of '.push' on us. Ruby tutorials require psychic powers, to learn what they never mentioned, but are now asking us to remember. So, if I don't make it as a developer, I could have a career as a coding psychic.This probably doesn't exist, but I guarantee here will be a USA show about it in the next 5 years. A coding psychic who solves computer crimes that the police cannot, despite his or her personality disorder/criminal past/meddling in-laws. But I digress...

It's not that I'm not glad that Code Academy exists, but the bugs and weird things that occasionally happen are really not helping me. This is becoming a bit of a struggle to even learn the simplest thing, when the page doesn't work, or what is clearly correct (and I've checked on the forums is correct, and sometimes even c/p the correct code), will not work.Just give me the damn badge, CodeAcademy! (I'm not giving up, just feeling frustrated. The CSS tutorial was much like this.)

  I have sworn to work on my coding skillz at least an hour a day, so here I am, keeping myself honest, while keeping up the writing habit! Multitasking, folks. At the moment, I am struggling a bit with Ruby loops. I get what they do, but I'm having a bit of a time with the syntax. So, I am going over the codeacademy parts until I get it.
  This is kind of frustrating, but it's just not clicking in right. Oh, well. It is a whole other language, so I can't expect it to be easy. So far loop syntax reminds me a tiny bit of the subjunctive. :D
  In Sims news, if we get another venue tomorrow (Which I hope we don't, actually. Too many venues as of late.), I should have enough SPs to get it and do a little review. However, I have no insider information on this, so for all I know, the Sims 3 folks are still on vacation, and I really hope they are enjoying it!