Learning

Imagine you are at the beach with a bucket and the only way to fill the bucket is by grabbing hand full’s of dry sand. Most of the sand will fall through your fingers and return to the beach but a small amount will stick and you can put that in the bucket. This can be overwhelming when you look at how much sand you will need to fill the bucket, but handful by handful the bucket starts to fill up.

The web is a large, ever evolving, interconnected puzzle. The more you grab at, the more that sticks.

With that in mind I am currently studying the courses at SuperHi (superhi.com) and have covered the following areas so far:

  • WordPress
  • JavaScript for Designers
  • Data Visualization & D3.js
  • Creative Coding
  • Math for Creatives
  • Page Transitions
  • Command Line for Creatives
  • Ajax & API’s
  • Experimental JavaScript
  • Animation for the Web
  • Experimental Typography for the Web
  • Instagram Filters & Spark AR
  • Intro to Python
  • Python for the Web
  • Shaders for the Web
  • Intro intro React.js
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Shopify Theme Development
  • Advanced CSS & JavaScript
  • Visual Design & Branding
  • Crypto & Web3 for Creatives

I have used my learning from these studies both personally and professionally from being more ambitious with a websites visuals to working with React.js and Typescript to build out the front-end of a PWA application.

Other teachers I find inspire me down the rabbit hole are: