Blog September 21–27
What did you do this last week?
My group made a lot of progress on the first project. I personally collaborated on the designs for some of our static instances, did the footer and navbar (and the js for having them on every page), and am learning what I can about Postman today to help out on the API.
What’s in your way?
My biggest personal hurdle is having a busy week coming up. I have an essay, this project, a test, and a short writing assignment. I’d like to think I haven’t totally wasted my time this weekend (but I had to call Saturday short for the Tech game). We’ll see how it goes, and at least I will have an easier weekend at the end of it.
What will you do next week?
I am assuming next week will have two phases. In the first part, I will be rushing to deploy tests for what works and helping figure out what is still in the group’s way. After that we are planning a big design meeting to put something solid down on how to transition from part 1 to part 2 of the project.
What was your experience of types, models, and iterators?
They were par for the course for me: a more in depth look at something that I was already mostly comfortable with. I have much more experience in Java, so seeing the familiar concepts in Python and Java both was a nice way to understand them. It was interesting to see the big performance differences between using built-in, highly-optimized, methods compared to what we could come up with on our own.
What made you happy this week?
I have prior experience with BS2, so seeing that BS4 is not an alien continent in comparison was a big relief. As I found my rhythm for web development it has not been too bad of a challenge.
What is your tip-of-the-week?
JS is great for parts of the website that you want to be filled in the same way. It is incredibly easy to have a js method that can write in a pre-made pop-up, footer, navbar, or whatever else. The best part about programming in that way is that you never risk having that one page with the footer that doesn’t stick or a similar problem, since there is only one code block that is written everywhere by js.
