I finished all but one of skills assessments related to dictionaries. I feel like I did them okay, maybe not the way I was supposed to but with my own logic and ideas. The real issue was the object orientation assessment. I was really surprised. When I came home Friday night I was so excited... Continue Reading →
What a difference several days makes! Yesterday we started learning about classes and objects. I knew what classes and objects were in Ruby, but I didn't really understand how they worked. The lectures really illuminated it for me. I understood a lot more about what was doing on. The lab was really helpful too. The gal I... Continue Reading →
I will not come anywhere close to eight hours of sleep tonight. Today was a good day on paper, but not in person. I ended up with a great new person as a pair for programming, and we worked very well together. I took lots of breaks and that was also a good thing. What... Continue Reading →
What a difference a day makes! I was able to exercise this morning and do many other necessary personal things. After lunch, I sat down to start working on the second part of the skills assessment around 1pm. First, Github would not cooperate. After an hour spent deleting repositories, using Github’s documentation rather than Hackbright’s,... Continue Reading →
Functions galore…. We have skills assessments each weekend. This weekend there are two parts: functions and lists. In looking at the two , I decided to do the second one first, on functions: it had two subparts, and it looks like it will take longer. It went really well. I started by reviewing the weeks work... Continue Reading →
Week one is over. I stayed at the social long enough to eat but that was about it. I was really tired. When I got home, I decided to do something completely unrelated: my taxes. This year was easier than last year in some ways albeit with a few new things too. All of those law... Continue Reading →
Today was a very good day. It started out with a bit of a sprint – BART was running late! I ended up taking a VERY overpriced taxi ride from BART to school so that I could get to school on time and without having to run uphill. The lessons today were interesting. The second... Continue Reading →
I was paired with someone who had a very different working style. It was like I was being questioned by a teacher who wasn’t interested in my answers but in my figuring out her answers. At the end, I thanked her. She then told me that slowing down (I like to plan and pseudo-code before... Continue Reading →
Well, day two is done. I am still exhausted. I feel okay. The lectures were interesting, paced correctly and overall very good. We learned about the command line and git. I spent most of the day in the lab. I think it went pretty well. It is really hard after a while to just sit with... Continue Reading →
I eventually fell asleep but woke up at 5:30 am – and kept waking up. Good thing, since I had set my alarm for PM instead of AM. Once I was ready, I went into the kitchen and my mom and my aunt were there to help me. My aunt had made breakfast and was contemplating... Continue Reading →
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