I've been shooting for 10 points on katas each day for the last week as some take a lot longer than others. BUT I'm finally rank 6! Along the journey I've learned about Regular expressions (RegEx) and I've tried using anonymous functions more, but this has led me down a rabbit hole of creating objects attached to functions and how to use them. (I'm still far off from being good with them but it's opened my mind to be more abstract with my approach to things and think about how I can implement anonymous functions. My example (someone's answer to a kata that destroyed mine haha): function DNAStrand(dna) { return dna.replace(/./g, function(c) { return DNAStrand.pairs[c]; }); } DNAStrand.pairs = { A: 'T', T: 'A', C: 'G', G: 'C', }; I thought this was a super clever approach and I'm excited to continue progressing as I'm getting closer and closer to finishing the prototype exercises! I'm stoked to get going and rip through building some apps! P.S. If you're feeling down, or second-guessing yourself on this journey. just remember.. Any one who is great at something put in the work, they were amateurs starting out just as anyone else would be. Keep going, and stay consistent. Even if it's half an inch a day within a year I'm sure you'll be on your way to completing that first mile (km for my international friends). :)

Hi all, I am new to the program. looking forward to.

Hey guys, I'm just crushing some Katas to get to level 5 and an answer to one of the katas showed me you can use .concat(space) to add an actual space. It makes sense but I've just never seen it used like that. Thought it was a neat! Here's the Kata: https://www.codewars.com/kata/56676e8fabd2d1ff3000000c/solutions/javascript P.S. the second solution is EXTREMELY Verbose and the comments are hilarious

Hello hello! I finally finished moving and have my computer and internet set up so I can get back to the coding grind. I tried this kata today and it destroyed me haha. I've only spent an hour on it, but it seems there's nested functions or referential values that I need to access that I'm not getting right now. It seemed like a fairly straight-forward kata. But this is a lvl 5 kata so I should've known there was trickey! If you want to take a look: https://www.codewars.com/kata/525f3eda17c7cd9f9e000b39/train/javascript

Haha I'm just venting, I miss building applications. I'm still working on algos and the array methods. I've come to realize they are not my strong suit. I'm much better than I was before starting the program but I just see everyone building apps and I can't wait to get back to that. I've got probably another month of just algos after I finish the array methods. I'm down to 2, but they're splice and reduce so after realizing I had the wrong approach for .splice. I've taken a step back from the array methods to get my mindset right on my approach for them. It's taken quite a bit of time, I'll be forcing myself to try today to solve them and see where I get. I know that I'll get there, but in the mean time I just fired up my vscode and looked at my old projects and I'm reminicing "the good times" ( still had a ton of issues but the progression was a lot of fun!) To others just keep going, it may be difficult but when you look back from where you were when you started the course to where you are now, it is really amazing to see the transformation!