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Punching Rock

Punching Rock

Bloody knuckling my way through rock climbing and learning code.

Tracy Hinds

May 17, 2013
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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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