After Neil's lecture, I realized I have signed up for something I am completely unprepared for. I asked the Instructors at LCCC how to go about starting a GIT repository. They suggested a few options and I ended up working with GitBash. Not understanding the application, and not understanding the documentation, I proceeded to experiment with the application. I struggled with understanding the most simple coding and took me quite a while before I would be able to successfully construct a webpage. On top of that, due to very restrictive data caps, one of the other students in our group, Paul, somehow managed to jam up the entire LCCC section for the Fab-academyarchive for months.
It is exceedingly frustrating to try to wrap my head around this GIT thing, while also being told to go to multiple different places that help newcomers learn coding, and in general getting no hands on help during this time, on tp of trying to learn something new every week. The projects began piling up ontp of each other, and I began spending my entire work day, at work, ontop of my free time afterwards, just trying to catch up to where the baseline is for (seemingly) 85% of the other students. As I write this today, june 25th, I still hardly understand the GIT process, where to even find a reference source that could walk me through it, and am still feeling immensely overwhelmed when attempting to write code and program anything.
This has taken an incredible amount of time for a complete novice, and no one seemed to ever have any real ability to teach someone who was a complete beginner.[saying "go to code academy and run the lessons" is like throwing someone into open water who cant swim and say "thrash about and keep your head up"]
I was mid-construction of an external structure to my house to serve as an indoor grow chamber when I first began this class. Thus, I wanted to incorperate my weekly projects and final project into the life support systems that were inside. I hope to automate as many processes as possible so that I will only need to check in on everything a few times a month.