When trying to learn something new, I sometimes find myself re-reading the same line over and over and not comprehending it because my mind is elsewhere. There is nothing in particular that is distracting, my mind just opts to be distracted. Ideally, we’d be at 100% all of the time, but we have to deal with our imperfect minds and develop strategies to compensate for those shortcomings.
I had a wacky time trying to get this project started due to the fundamental shift from previous lessons. Once I got started though, I started making what I felt were tremendous strides and felt more confident in my actual coding skills. I rarely had to look up how to do something, so when I sought help it was easy for the Flatiron coaches to tighten up my code and make it more presentable.