24 Days of Commitment 
Tags: javascriptmas, scrimba
Published: 2020-12-27 05:47:17

In this year of uncertainties, I have been certain of one thing: it's ok to not accomplishing anything during a global pandemic crisis. Everything came to a stop in March 2020: my teaching gigs were cancelled, all my weekly appointments were cancelled, I stopped learning to code. As a disabled person with a respiratory condition, my focus for the last 9 months has been to stay alive! 

A couple of months ago I got back into coding by signing up for the [The Frontend Developer Career Path](https://scrimba.com/learn/frontend) at [Scrimba](https://scrimba.com/). I LOVE THIS PLATFORM! The interactive screencasts are a total game changer! I have learned more from Scrimba than I did in my fancy expensive coding bootcamp (I ended up dropping out because I couldn't finish in 6 months and couldn't afford to pay more. But this could be another post!). 

## December 1st, 2020:

I had no intentions of committing to any challenges. This year has been challenging enough. I logged into my account and proceeded to work through the next lesson in the module. I notice a little red link at the top that was new: [Join #JavaScriptmas](https://scrimba.com/learn/adventcalendar). 

>"An advent calendar that both improves your JavaScript skills and gives you a chance of winning epic prizes."

Sounds good! I did the first challenge and thought "This is fun" and then forgot about it. Next day I got an email with the new challenge so I did that one. By day 3 I was hooked! I was eagerly awaiting for the next days challenge. Some challenges were easy, some took me all day to solve. The challenges revealed gaps in my knowledge, which was probably one of the most valuable things I got from this experience. Oh and this experience gave me 2 firsts: I joined twitter and wrote my first technical blog post. Not bad for the last month of what has been a pretty terrible year. 

##Solutions to all 24 challenges:

* Day 1: [Candies](https://scrimba.com/scrim/co1924f8eb76cc6d2cb5925f4)
* Day 2: [Deposit Profit](https://scrimba.com/scrim/cof3440ba8d2297d092d3156a)
* Day 3: [Chunky Monkey](https://scrimba.com/scrim/co404425a953b2b7b5ee9f631)
* Day 4: [Century From Year](https://scrimba.com/scrim/coaa6409693cedbbdd4100bfd)
* Day 5: [Reverse A String](https://scrimba.com/scrim/co0524f5a9d9e2a25498f298c)
* Day 6: [Sort By Length](https://scrimba.com/scrim/co4b04c1ba6bd7c8688da3e56)
* Day 7: [Count Vowel Consonant](https://scrimba.com/scrim/coff14bf0aa014e9c16541303)
* Day 8: [The Rolling Dice](https://scrimba.com/scrim/cocf345f289cadf917d3a757e)
* Day 9: [Sum Odd Fibonacci Numbers](https://scrimba.com/scrim/co8284c328815730b9d7d9e8c)
* Day 10: [Adjacent Elements Product](https://scrimba.com/scrim/co4aa4eec9e23948e5da45016)
* Day 11: [Avoid Obstacles](https://scrimba.com/scrim/cob34411b93706e13ce1b129f)
* Day 12: [Valid Time](https://scrimba.com/scrim/cob5844f1ab8734df2cce4268)
* Day 13: [Extract Each Kth](https://scrimba.com/scrim/co5ff4e058370e7d1692d5e2a)
* Day 14: [Maximal Adjacent Difference](https://scrimba.com/scrim/co49e4760a3eb3b073424ce73)
* Day 15: [Carousel](https://scrimba.com/scrim/coa054da8ae04679a616dd822)
* Day 16: [Insert Dashes](https://scrimba.com/scrim/co463429fb1b94612b2c9cfea)
* Day 17: [Different Symbols Naive](https://scrimba.com/scrim/coc6f4ac684f639dedf5ec13e)
* Day 18: [Array Previous Less](https://scrimba.com/scrim/co83d42e78196d3827fc736c4)
* Day 19: [Alphabet Subsequence](https://scrimba.com/scrim/cof4545838dc16f0d75e79bb4)
* Day 20: [Domain Type](https://scrimba.com/scrim/co5f2447d8453a743506195e4)
* Day 21: [Sum Of Two](https://scrimba.com/scrim/cof1244d98d2ab427dd40534b)
* Day 22: [Extract Matrix Column](https://scrimba.com/scrim/cofae4a4ba4d33f67d6584b3e)
* Day 23: [Social Media Input](https://scrimba.com/scrim/co69544a4a2aa045625a98add)
* Day 24: [Test Your Agility](https://scrimba.com/scrim/co2f04e728591cbed9ced6684)