Web development is another large category. Web development consists of two main categories, each with a ton of smaller ones. The two main categories of web development are front-end and back-end. Front-end web development uses (at its core) HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and is responsible for creating the part of the website that you see and interact with...

That’s great! Coding is an awesome career choice. Even better, you can have an amazing coding career without needing to pay tons of money for a college degree. You can. But you don’t have to. So, before you start going on a lavish educational shopping spree, let’s figure out if coding is something you really want to do. First, there are a few qualities that are pretty important to being a programmer. Don’t worry, it’s nothing to do with how tall you are or how good you are at math. (I’m dreadful at math.) Successful programmers do have a few common traits though...

All the social media platforms make it easier than ever to compare ourselves to others. It’s easy to get discouraged feeling like we’re behind or not measuring up. But it’s super important to remember that we each have our own journey that has its own unique timeline. Let’s stop holding […] The post Timelines? Pffft appeared first on Mulan Lau | Blog.

Our environment has an impact on everything we do from washing dishes to coding to playing with a puppy. If we are intentional about shaping our environment, we can make hard tasks easy and easy tasks even easier. In other words, environment matters. When I talk about environment here I […] The post Environment Matters appeared first on Mulan Lau | Blog.

I started to experience pain in my right shoulder towards the end of last year. At first it was just a small ache off and on but the ache began to grow into a throbbing pain and the off and on quickly turned into all the time. I visited a […] The post Good Times Make Habits Easy And Hard appeared first on Mulan Lau | Blog.

Have you ever been faced with learning a new thing and it was like staring into the abyss? Everything seems complicated and confusing, and you keep going down rabbit holes that end with more questions than answers. This was how I felt trying to dive into a project on a […] The post Start with the Essential appeared first on Mulan Lau | Blog.