Punching Rock

Bloody knuckling my way through rock climbing and learning code.

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1. ROCKS
   PUNCHING
   Bloody knuckling my way through
   programming and rock climbing
   

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2. Tracy Abrahms
   @hackygolucky
   @hackygolucky
   Urban Airship
   Junior Javascript Engineer
   

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3. I've got problems.
   Lots of problems.
   

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4. 11 months ago...
   

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5. "I chose this adventure.
   NOW what?"
   

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6. Find your
   SPIRIT
   guides
   

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7. CODEACADEMY
   Smashing Node
   Coursera StackOverflow
   IRC Github
   JSWeekly
   SkillCrush
   Effective Javascript
   

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8. find your
   HOME
   

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9. BREAK EVERYTHING.
   

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10. Dear Diary,
    Today I released my first bit of
    code into the production wild.
    

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11. hacker
    vernacular
    

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12. What I'm doing
    WRONG
    

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13. What I'm doing
    RIGHT
    

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14. What I'm doing
    NOW
    

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15. so why are you telling ME this?
    

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16. PROPS TO MY RESOURCES
    Climbing Hands, Wojtek Kozakiewicz
    http://www.wojtekozakiewicz.com/data/photos/104_1rodellar_hands.jpg
    Cliff Jumper Rob Lantz
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/freelantz/5995105398/
    Krabi_Railay02 by malomen
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/malomen2/4961908594/
    Books I've played with:
    Learn Python the Hard Way, Zed Shaw
    The CLI Crash Course, Zed Shaw
    Effective Javascript, David Herman
    Smashing Node, Guillermo Rauch
    Making Games with Python and PyGames, Al Sweigart
    Essential System Administration, Æleen Frisch
    

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