by Jenae Cohn | Apr 4, 2012 | Literature, Pedagogy, Personal, Web Culture Musings
I had the enormous pleasure of spending the past week (i.e. my spring break) in San Diego and Los Angeles, taking plenty of time away from the computer and gazing at beaches (and even seals!) Alas, a new quarter has begun and I’m back to reality and gazing...
by Jenae Cohn | Jan 29, 2012 | Code Year
Yikes, I’ve been woefully negligent of my coding lately! Admittedly, it’s a task that I end up avoiding. For whatever reason, thinking about the coding often fills me with anxiety; I know that the work will be a little bit tedious and will often be...
by Jenae Cohn | Jan 21, 2012 | Code Year
I have a distinct memory of the first day of French 1 in college. I walked in confident that I would succeed. After all, I had been a successful Spanish student in high school; French was a romance language, ergo it wouldn’t be that different. Right? Well, I...
by Jenae Cohn | Jan 15, 2012 | Code Year
I’ve made it through (most of) Lesson1 of my “Getting Started with Programming” Course on Codeacademy and I’m already running into trouble! Nooo! Mind you, the first few exercises within the lesson felt like a breeze. Really, I figured...