This has been a difficult week. I got pretty sick and missed a half day of work, had to study for assessment 5 during the week, and had to stay on top of all of the weeks new material. It was pretty intense. Thankfully I passed the assessment, didn't fall to fear behind despite missing class, and my fever has for the most part gone away and I can function again without medicine.
Today we took Assessment 5. I missed a spec today, it was an annoying implementation detail regarding a search algorithm. My algorithm was completely functional, it was a matter of rounding up vs rounding down. You could round either way in order for things to work, you just had to be consistent with your logic. I misinterpreted the spec and thought it was failing for a different reason, and spent an infuriating amount of time trying to debug my working code. C'est la vie.
Passing today’s assessment was a HUUGGEEE weight off my shoulders. We have a total of 6 assessments, and everyone is allowed to ‘fail’ 1. If you fail 2, you end up getting kicked out of the program. So far we have lost 7 people (from 61 down to 54) due to assessments. By passing the first five, I have guaranteed that I wont get kicked out due to the assessments. Which is great, because as I have mentioned before, the assessments are terrifying.
This next week we learn react and continue to focus on front end stuff, which will be extremely important for our final projects, and getting a job afterwards. We get to work on some really cool projects, and will be focusing on building interactive websites, which is the last piece of the whole ‘full stack puzzle’ we have been learning. I feel like we are SO CLOSE to be able to build entire web applications, I cant wait for all the pieces to be connected by the end of this week. Right now all of my rails apps have amazingly awesome backends, and on the front end just static text. That will soon change.
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