This is perhaps the hardest entry I’ve had to write so far. As you can tell from the title, I failed yesterday’s assessment by about 3 specs, with an overall percentage of around 73%. I’ve spent most of yesterday mostly reflecting on what happened and how I can improve on future assessments. Honestly, the stress […]

Week 3 is already over! Time is seriously flying. That’s the strangest thing though. It’s ALREADY the start of week 4, and yet, I feel like I’ve been studying code at a/A for 3 months. An incredible oxymoron in this case, at least I think so. It could also mean I’ve been learning at an […]

I’m definitely starting to understand Associations a bit more. While not completely intuitive or instinctual, I’m able to map out relationships and make them work the first time around. The next step yesterday was to focus on Relations with ActiveRecord. To my understanding, Relations is the collection of querying methods that are used almost exactly […]

Man, associations are kinda confusing. I haven’t really nailed understanding the relationships just yet, but I’m getting better. There’s a fairly simple strategy on implementing it at first when you don’t quite grasp the relationship between each of the classes and it involves delving into the schema to grab foreign id’s and start from there. […]

Yesterday was all about finishing up some SQL content by learning about SQLite3. It was very much like last Friday where I came in and half expected not to understand anything while going through the project, or at least have a lot more difficulty understanding the concepts than I actually did. This means that I […]

I passed assessment 2! But I was fairly disappointed with my performance. Given that the practice assessment was easier, in my opinion, than the actual assessment, I came into the assessment fairly confident. But a/A threw a couple curve balls in the assessment, and dealing with those curve balls really put a wrench in my […]

Friday was a day and a half! The day’s topics were all about adding to our understanding of time complexities by relating them to hash sets and linked lists, and further developing our understanding of those two topics by implementing an LRU cache, which uses a hash set that directly points to node within the link […]

So there goes THAT theory. While I think there is some validity in my theory that a/A gives harder practice assessments to motivate others to study harder, that concept probably just doesn’t apply to everyone, OR given the premise and objective of the projects thus far, the practice assessment was actually do able. I was […]

Yesterday was allllll about RSpec and TDD. For those that don’t know, RSpec is a tool used to test Ruby code. Test-Driven Development is a programming process where you’d write tests for what you expect a program to do, and write the actual program that does it. Apparently TDD is great for documentation, collaboration and […]

Finished the chess game! The chess game looks gooooood. I had a great experience pairing with my partner today, albeit to be honest, working with my partner did make me feel a bit…. I don’t think the word is inadequate exactly… but I’m a LOT slower than him when it came to coding in every […]