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W4D3

Today was the first day of authentication, and it was rough. It’s not that the act of authentication is terribly difficult, but there is a lot of memorization involved. I’m hoping that it will make more sense as we move forward, but only time will tell.

W4D2

Today we retook the assessment and I passed with flying colors. The Cats assignment was very interesting though. I look forward to finishing it.

W4D1

After a very interesting weekend, we finally made it back into the office. We had our third assessment today, and I don’t think I did as well as I should have. But the good news I have one more shot to make it work. And moving forward into this week, I feel like I have a solid grasp on where we are headed. I should be taking it one step at a time, but it’s hard to not get excited. We are finally creating something that looks like webpage.

W3D5

We worked a lot with ActiveRecord stuff today. It was very interesting to see what is going on under the hood, but the tasks today were very difficult. I found myself asking my neighbor for hints several times throughout the day. I had a lot of fun working through the problems though and look forward to learning about HTML starting next week.

W3D4

Rails is becoming easier with every passing day. Can’t wait to be building websites!

W3D3

We started learning about rails today. I feel like I’m one of the lucky ones because I have seen it before, but never quite like this. It’s cool to see how powerful of a tool rails can be once you understand what every folder is for and how they communicate rather than just knowing that they work.

W3D2

We worked a lot more with SQL today. However the big difference was that we used Ruby to access our database. It was very cool to see the two languages interacting. I think the field of computer science is coming more into view every day, but there is still a lot that needs to be done.

W3D1

We started on a whole new language today. SQL is a very helpful language to understand, but I don’t think it was made to be understood in a day. Hopefully it will make more sense as the week goes by.

W2D5

Going over linked lists. The concept behind them is very fascinating. Being able to create a hash map along side the list make for very quick lookups. It seems like having multiple data structures side by side is the way to go when considering performance. Unfortunately we have an assessment coming on on Monday, so we shall see how that goes...

W2D4

We are almost done with week two. I cannot believe how much information that has been thrown at us, and yet we are all able to keep pushing forward. We learned about the big O score for computer science today. It seems like something that is fairly simple, but take a long time to understand. But after a day of working on nothing else, I think it’s starting to make sense. Luckily we won’t have to worry about it much throughout the rest of the course.

W2D3

Today we learned about Rspec. It is a very interesting concept and can keep your project heading in the right direction. The dummy variables are a little confusing, but it was cool to see how TDD works.

W2D2

We got another day in the books. This day seemed longer than most. This was probably due to the complexity of our assignment. We created a working chess board (we were able to place and move pieces based on what/where they were), but once we got to actually populating the board we got stuck. We tried to make it more complicated than it probably needed to be... whoops. I’m learning a lot though, both about the code and how others think, which is what we came here for. It is crazy to me how intertwined my two passions truly are.

W2D1

Today we took our first assessment. I made several stupid mistakes and unfortunately did not perform as well as I had hoped. Even though every assessment from here on will be even more stressful than they need to be, I plan to take it as a personal challenge.

Today we also started building the game of chess. I never would have guessed it would be as complicated as it actually is, but I cannot wait to see the finished product. I look forward to being able to work on it more tomorrow.

W1D5

Today we created an algorithm that could chart out every possible move of a knight in chess. It was very interesting and fun to complete. It was nice trying to work through this problem, especially because I think we are getting better with the driver-navigator relationships. My partner and I stopped or slowed down several times in order to think through the issues we were having as well as explain some concepts that were not as clear. It was very refreshing compared to the other days of hectic project building. I hope to continue this style of coding as we move forward.

W1D4

Today was a very intense debugging session for everyone. Although it can be frustrating, we had a lot of fun working through the code to find little errors. It really shows how fickle the computer can be, and how important it is to test every method as you go. This way you can avoid spending hours debugging one file.

W1D3

Today we covered a lot of information on recursive functions. This is a rather difficult concept when the problems become larger and larger. I guess it’s just one of those things that I’m going to need to focus on a bit more in the coming days. Gordon and I worked on a word chain program (changes one letter of a word over and over until it can form a second word). It was very challenging and I can honestly say that he knew more than I did. I learned a lot though. It should be interesting to see what will come of today’s lessons.

W1D2

It’s officially the end of day two. I have been in the office for a little over 13 hours now working on today’s assignments. Did I need to be here this long? Probably not. However Rob and I were pretty intent on finishing our sudoku and match making games. After a long battle (and not due to functionality) we finally have a product that we are proud to call our own. Both games ended up being polished to the point that anyone who opened the file would be able to read the rules and play with no hiccups. It is honestly incredible to see how quickly we were able to create these games... I mean after all, it’s only day two. I cannot wait to see what else AppAcademy has in store for us.

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