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Lucy Macartney · 2022-05-18T20:19:03.178Z

On 1st September 2021, I opened a brand new Twitter account to document #100DaysOfCode. To set the scene, I had been teaching myself to code for over a year. I was following some tech Twitter accounts from my personal account for a few months. I ha...

As someone who recently finished this challenge, I resonate with everything you said here. The best advice I can give is to be consistent, go at your own pace and don't compare yourself with others!

Thanks for sharing with everyone! :)

Thanks a bunch for inspiring Lucy!

Yeah, when you've just started and got some replies from the community can really your day. It's also great to see how much we have progressed from last week or month by documenting it.

Would love to connect with other folks who are the part of this amazing journey.

Here's my twitter: amul_gaurav

Aww Amul, I'm so glad that you found this helpful and thank you so much for taking the time to comment.

I'm looking forward to following your journey, it looks like you're already off to a great start!

I started #100Daysofcode last month. Twitter just blocked my account after posting my latest project i worked on... Meanwhile it helped keeping progress on my goal towards webdevelopment... Congratulations 🎉on finishing your hopefully i get to finish mine someday 😞

This article inspired me to start my #100DaysOfCode journey soon. Thanks for sharing 👩🏼‍💻💖

Thanks for sharing this Lucy! I've had my account for a while but haven't posted much and wasn't sure if I could commit to 100 days of code at the moment with a lot going on, but I suppose we can jump around like you took 170 days. I definitely will want to get on it at some point and your post reminds me!

Great points! I began my journey and again I tumbled into stopping. This gave me some inspiration to keep going. 1% everyday will add up to huge results in the end. Did you code for more than 1 hour? Did you use any productivity tool to track your lessons and notes?

Thanks Jeffrey, sorry for the very late reply! I would say that I did 1 hour minimum for each of the 100 days but sometimes I definitely did more. At the time of the challenge, I made hand written notes. Right now, I use my iPad to make notes and also use Forest app to track how much time I spend focusing :)

Awesome explanation! I went a step ahead. I also brought a domain called 100daysofdata 😀😀

That is commitment! I love it! What do you have planned for 100daysofdata?

Lucy Macartney Build an online guide for learning modern data stack in 100 days!

Lucy is one of the most consistent people I follow through #100DaysOfCode and it was amazing watching all she shared with us.

Don't hesitate anymore, join the community today❤️

Great stuff Lucy! I couldn't agree more with starting as a "just talking to myself" idea and then morphing into something amazing! Everything IS making more sense now :)

Congratulations on finishing the challenge! Considering the #100DaysOfCode since I'm trying to build up a habit of blogging what I learn to document and make it easy for me to self-review everything.

Twitter handle @bluebird_kevin

Amazing Article Lucy! Congrats on completing the challenge!

You literally just inspired me to start the challenge, I hope it will really help (my twitter handle is KaiPereira7 ).

Keep up the good writing!

Nice article Lucy, and great motivation for others to take it up too!

I also used the challenge as a means of getting into tech twitter and putting myself out there. Without the challenge, I'm not sure I would have ever started posting since at that stage I didn't feel like I had anything to offer anyone.

I'm not sure where I'd be now without the push that the 100DaysOfCode challenge gave me 🙌

Thank you so much for sharing Kieran! Love hearing another story of someone who used the challenge to get started on Twitter.

I don't know if it was the same for you, but posting about 100 days of code, helped to inspire me to create different pieces of content 😍

I totally agree with this Lucy Macartney!

I also started my Twitter account just for #100daysofcode and it worked absolutely amazing!

I'd like to encourage other fellow developers and codenewbies to follow the same path :)

Wow! I love that your account started with #100DaysOfCode too.

It looks like your social media has really taken you to interesting places, so it's really inspiring to hear that from you! Thank you for sharing :)

Congrats Lucy on completing the 100daysofcode challenge.

May I know what motivated you to be consistent for 170days?.

Any tips or suggestions?

Thank you Kiran!

Towards the end, I considered starting over because I had taken such a big break in January, but I decided it was best to just finish what I had started and move on to other things.

Also, I am a really big advocate for small daily consistent actions. I really recommend the book "The Slight Edge" by Jeff Olson. It helps to understand the impact of doing small things consistently 💗

Lucy Macartney I definitely will read the book.

Fabulous advice! I am gonna take this challenge today itself.
And,

"My tweets rarely have more than 10 likes 😅"

But, your Hashnode is phenomenal 🔥✒️

Thank you so much Neeraj! Getting so much support has really inspired me to write more. I need to starting writing another post 😁

Great article Lucy Macartney I agree with all of these points! I saw my skills improve considerably when I started to do this challenge and my network and engagement went up a lot!

And like you said it's a great way to interact with new people too. Such a great way for making new friends who have shared interests.

Thank you Andrew! Happy to hear someone else had the same experience 😍. I think it can be a bit overwhelming to start, but it really is worth it for someone struggling to come up with what to write on Twitter.

I connected with so many lovely people at the beginning and I love watching their journeys so much! It feels like we are all growing together :)

What a fantastic piece Lucy!

Amazing content idea. I hope lots of aspiring developers use your advice to start sharing what they are learning and growing their network.

I was a particular fan of the advanced search section as a way to reflect on how far you have come!

Thanks so much Joel for your support!

I really do hope that it inspires others to keep going or even start documenting their journey. The challenge is a fantastic way to get a feel for what kind of content you enjoy making.

Great points Lucy!!, love the blog🔥

Thank you so much Pradumna for reading and commenting 😍

Great article! I love the pictures you included throughout and this was so fun and inspiring to read, especially about the improvement in Eng. I think it gets dismissed a lot on how much difficult learning code can be if your first language isn't Eng. What a fantastic first blog post!

Sylvia, thank you so much for your support 😍 hopefully this will be the first of many!

Yeah, I'm such a big advocate for using Twitter to help develop your English skills. I'm planning to make a video in Spanish on the same topic aimed at Latin American devs to try to inspire them to start doing 100 days of code, so let's see 🤩

All these points you mentioned are very true! I also got into the tech twitter through 100DaysOfCode. And the journey was amazing and made lots of friends and found job opportunities as well!

Thanks for reading and commenting Sumudu! You've definitely been such a great example of where documenting your journey on Twitter can take you 🙌🏼

For anyone wanting a further boost of inspiration, go and check out Sumudu's Twitter and see that it all started with 100 days of code 🤩

Great article Lucy! Thanks for the advanced query search advice, very useful indeed. Repeating the code you posted is pretty effective. I'll be using it.

Hope to see new interesting articles from you soon👍

Thanks so much Maxim! I'm glad that you found the query useful.

Loving the support from everyone so much, it's definitely inspired me to do more 🥰

Congratulations on finishing the challenge Lucy 🥳

This is so true, I recently completed my own 100Days challenge and I can say that it felt really great to share while learning

Thanks so much for reading and commenting Akebu, I hope that you found it useful. Yeah the challenge is such a lovely way to get into the rhythm of posting. Well done for finishing the challenge! Now that you're an expert, I hope you will go to the hashtag and show some support to others 🤪

Oh my, Lucy this is beautiful 🙌 Congrats on taking on and completing this challenge ❤❤ It's hard to stay consistent and continuously try to do your best for 100 days, even if not consecutively. I recently took on the challenge myself, and I hope I can stick around to completing it.

Thanks for reading and commenting so quickly Emy 💗 It's such a great challenge to start building a habit. For me it was so useful to play around with content and find a way to document my journey 😍 I wish you all the best with the challenge!

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