Tag: code school

Sleep Hygiene

Or lack thereof…

We were assigned 10 hours of sleep before our first exam and that is the last time I managed more than 8 hours of sleep in this program.

I need a better nights rest for memory and retention, mood, and keeping my brain generally spongy, pliable and absorbent.  So far just going to bed at the right time has failed.

http://sleepyti.me/ is something i’ve been experimenting with along with general good sleep hygiene:

  • Don’t sleep in the same place you work
  • Get enough water during the day
  • Meditate before bed
  • Exercise everyday (okay, this one needs some work)
  • Less sugar and caffeine

I can’t seem to eliminate my computer time right before bed and when I do manage it my mind is filled with code (pseudo code really… if I dreamt in syntax I might be a bit better at it by now).

I almost forgot to close those parentheses just now.

Until then:  sudo sleep

Well underway – Week 3

Three weeks in and already onto our second programming language (3 really, if you count a cursory introduction into Javascript).  I can already see how jQuery will be useful and that I don’t want to start any sentences with it on account of that lower case ‘j’.

Its a relatively satisfying change of pace to see functioning code make immediate changes in a browser window as opposed to the command line for the past two weeks in Ruby.  Although we’re accomplishing similar tasks jQuery is less abstracted from the end user… who I sympathize with having been one three weeks ago and by all accounts also still being one today.

Three weeks means our third textbook as well and Learning jQuery 3rd Edition is proving a little more dense and less elegant than Eloquent Ruby. Javascript and jQuery are also more dense and a little less elegant than Ruby, so it feels at little consistent at least.