For my first formative project, I have been using
the website codecademy.com to learn how to code in the language JavaScript.
This part of my project does not have a physical result when I finish. With
this website I am hoping to create a basis for my overall project. Since
Android studio already assumes that you know how to code, I need to learn
before I start programming. Android Studio uses only Java to code, so I am
using JavaScript as a start to speed up the process with Java. I will be learning
Functions, For Loops While loops, and depending on how comfortable I am I may
learn Control Flow. After I complete these courses on codecademy.com, I will
then learn Java. Since I should know JavaScript by then, the Java courses
should not take so long.
This
part of my overall project does not necessarily produce a product; instead it
helps me in my long term goal. I easily could have started with learning how to
code in only in Java, but I felt that having a basis in JavaScript will help me
not only to code in Java later on, but it will also help me code in different
languages in the future as well. JavaScript has a short-term setback because it
takes time away from my programming experience, but overall I feel as if this
is the best option I have available.
