Codin' Away

Hey!

So a lot has been going on, and I've been a little too busy to make blog posts in the last couple of weeks.
Another reason for that is related to learning programming--you might be able to guess what I'm getting at, but nevertheless I will explain that below. I still have every intention to continue my blog though, and I have many things I wish to post about (including many unfinished draft posts! ><) First of all, I'll mention some things besides coding. But first, let's talk about coding:

Coding, yay!

Okay.

So July is one of those months for me that are jam-packed with important birthdays; My brother's is July 19th, My girlfriend's and her twin sister's is July 20, and my friend Johnny's is on the 24th. Not to mention, another friend's was on the 25th (but he was off being awesome; he was off in Japan, and then to a few other places, and then to work in like...Silicon Valley!?). To make it even more insane, my close friends and I had another close friend for a while (long story, but we don't really talk to him much or anything now and he's not even in the city anyway), whom we chilled with a great deal when I was in first year--and his birthday was on July 26th!

Two awesome parties took place quite recently. My girlfriend and her sister had another one of their gaming feast-parties--and oh man, the fooooooood. My friend Johnny (of WakeGaNai) and his girlfriend celebrated his birthday with a party of their own, and the case with that was pretty similar. Both parties were an awesome way to get together for some fun and reward ourselves for hard work. In my case, I'm starting to actually feel like I deserve such things. That is,  頑張っています～～（GANBATTEIMASU~~）

ＳＯ！

So I've been doing a lot of programming lately, though I'm still just learning the basics. I took a Python-focused course in school before (though back then I couldn't really focus on it, nor did I even intend to become a programmer--unlike now!), and later when I came back to programming and, in a fortunate turn of events, stopped everything I was doing and turned it into my absolute career path, I started learning Python using Codecademy (awesome site!).

I went on to learn more at Codecademy, and I intend to keep on using it. The first course I fully completed was on HTML and CSS (that's right! I can build some basic websites!! I need to practice though). Now, by this time, and fortunately for me (because learning alongside others is great), Johnny had also taken up programming. In particular, he loves to spruce up his blog and learn how to make it as aesthetically pleasing as possible whilst implementing as many other optimizing elements as possible. That's a major thing that I like to do as well, and I'll be doing a lot of that too, pretty soon.

The reason I'm less motivated to make a lot of posts here is because I'm going to keep learning, keep practicing, and pretty soon just code my own blog. I might do this through Ghost or something, but it will still be fully customized by me and I won't have to deal with anything dumb that comes with blogging as a non-code monkey.

Right now I'm working through the Javascript course. One of my main focuses is learning languages, some versatile and some more focused, expand my potential web design/development capabilities. I'm pretty much running down a list I've jotted down from personal research and fused together with a list given to me by a knowledgeable friend. After finishing the Javascript course, I will work through several fun little web-related tutorials on Codecademy while I supplement that with working my own real website project (which I will discuss in another post sometime). This will allow to to refresh and enhance my skills with HTML and CSS while also looking for ways to implement Javascript, stuff from Bootstrap, and eventually JQuery once I learn about that too. And of course, I will go back to my unfinished Python course and finish 'er up.

I actually have various person project ideas, but I'll get into that another time. Another language I'll be learning too is C. Yup! So I'll learn and practice Python some more before I get into that. Python knowledge has been helping me to easily understand Javascript, and I think that once I'm through with learning about the basics of Javascript, I'll be even better at mastering the rest of Codecademy's Python course. In fact, although for some reason I thought that Javascript was going to be a little easier than Javascript, I'm no longer feeling so sure; The loops and lists and double-nested loops (for-if-for) I've been learning already at the 1/3 mark in the Javascript course is what I remember learning a fair bit later in the Python course, not to forget nested lists and dictionaries.

For some reason, the passing of time and/or the learning of Javscript (albeit only for a few days so far) in addition to the study and practice of pseudo-languages like HTML and CSS, has really sunk in, leaving me with a clearer and more confident mind about programming.

I am ready to take it all on!

~Yukigami

Minor Blog Adjustments, July 3 2014

Hey! I'm just posting some changes I've made to the blog as a whole.


Tonight I'll be posting sort of a splash art made up of some of the "concept art" previously posted for my newest D&D character creation, Altia Luna Denerian. Within that image, some of her basic character stats and cool info will also be showcased. Coming soon!


Here are some changes I just made to the blog, some of which may be already obvious:

• Increased the overall font size by 4 numbers! It's extremely readable this way, though perhaps it is too big. We'll see!
• A lot of the links and things that used to appear light blue are now coloured in the light pinkish colour. That colour already existed in various parts, but I've increased upon it (my general overall scheme includes mainly black, grey, white, blue, a light pinkish colour, and a light yellow).
• The frame of pictures is now white instead of the light blue from before.
• The gifs and things along the right side of the blog now link to relevant places.
• FYI, since I probably never mentioned it before, the entire blog text is styled bold. Thus, as this is in place, you don't see any text more bold than other text.
• Obviously I have some much more important changes to make when I have the time and energy:
• A proper labeling (tags) system
• A complete top menu with proper linking and no empty items
• And eventually, more patiently written, high-quality posts overall.
• Ultimately though, this will all matter little once I have the skills to program everything myself.

Aside from all of this and patiently increasing on my novice programming skills, all I can really provide is a greater number and variety of blog posts. I'll do my best to keep posting about everything, such as Go, fanfics, other writing, MTG, D&D, my life, Japanese, anime, etc!

In the meantime, I'm also fitting in time each day not only to exercise a little ,but also to write Love Lilycove stuff. The side story I'm working on is pretty long (and awesome!), and it actually takes place (and is not to be posted until) much later. So basically, what I'm writing right now is not something I'll be even posting once it's finished.

However, once I finish it, I'll postpone editing it and go back to finishing chapter 1!

So basically, I have every intention of following through on the chapter one of Love Lilycove I've been promising (myself) for so long.

ADIOS!

~Yukigami

Gods are busy

Yukigami here!

So I have become pretty busy as of late, and I would just like to update some things!


First of all, I still intend to do a huge amount of writing and the things I said I'm going to do. But as it turns out, I'm going to have to become a whole lot better at managing my time. Like...really!

I'm also going to have to start exercising more, as my energy won't keep up otherwise.

So, why am I going to be so incredibly busy? I don't feel like getting super detailed about it just yet, especially because I need to be doing something else right now instead of typing up a long blog post. But essentially, in addition to having exams to study for, I have a lot of programming to learn. I am taking it upon myself to become a programmer, and I am very determined and trying really hard. Right now no matter how hard I try I feel I am not trying nearly hard enough. I really want to catch up to those who've been programming for a while already, or at least to those who've taken more than a year or two of it in school as their focal program of study.

I will still make regular blog posts, as you will soon see, but there will hopefully come a time during the early Summer when I can really pump out some interesting written works, Go tutorials and more, despite the rigorous training I'll need to continue with for programming.

I am undergoing some major life decisions/changes right now but you'll learn all about it at a much later point. I don't want to get into it until I've really taken meaningful steps. I also don't want to say anything as though it's final here, even if in my head I already think it so.

I managed to come up with some insanely awesome ideas recently for one of my stories though and started on chapter one (I know have four different chapter one's, each for a different story). One night, I was really in the zone and the giant, lightning-fast stream of ideas all just clicked! You will see all of them within the next two months, likely within 40 days. I really do intend to become regular with story chapters (and a lot of other things I said I'd be writing out). I haven't turned my eye from role-play, MTG, anime, or other such topics around which recent topics have rarely been based, but major events/decisions/changes in/to my life have pushed a few things aside by force for now.

So basically, Yukigami wa...

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GAMBATTEIMASU!!
がんばっています!!

 

~Yukigami

Jan. 28 Blog Changes

Some blog changes!

• Edited the navigation tabs
• Removed some thing from the side menu
• Added some things to sidebar pictures, such as Carnival Phantasm :)
• Replaced nearly all sidebar pictures with animated gifs!
• Replaced perfectly good (possibly better) "Awesome Inc." blogspot background with this plain black background featuring a badass Pokemon trainer (seems to be gen. 5 female). The picture quality is not the greatest, but I think it's cool. Plus, it will synergize well with Love Lilycove fanfic once I get around to working on it some more and pump out some chapters!
• Edited self-intro and personal Google+ details
• Added many more people to Google+
• Added a lot to my Tumblr
• Added "news" info under the banner
• Edited a blog post

Yuki got lots done in a very short session~! 

^___^ 


Later I'll just need to figure out some html and see what I can do about a few things that are left desired.
For example,although I'm not sure it's possible, I would like it if my navigation tabs bar ('link list') under the banner didn't stretch all the way to the far sides.