4 hours of homework and videos. Goddam. But authentication’s a very important topic, especially when it comes to back-end stuff. But real quick, before I go into auth, I just wanted to readdress Monday’s assessment. I went back to practice it today within the time constraints, keep in mind I haven’t really visited it since Monday, but I pretty much killed it. Which comforts me to a certain extent that I do in fact, know my shit when it comes to the material, but with the added time pressure, it doesn’t seem I’m able to think as clearly. Which really means I don’t really like a/A’s method of assessing skill level, but I gotta take it as it comes, that’s how they roll and I gotta play their game.

Now for authentication! Authentication is a super intensive topic. There’s a lot that goes into the subject, especially how it came about. Various methods of attack, password entropy, cookies, etc. All of these were taken into consideration for coming up with a way to secure passwords, session tokens and cookies. Cryptography in general is a very obscure topic of study that the general populace doesn’t quite understand, but reading about the topic last night has made me incredibly interested. The auth assessment on Tuesday is mainly about this material, so for the next week, that’s pretty much going to be my main focus. The projects are introducing a lot of new gems and add-ons that are fascinating, but also pretty hard to keep track of. Majority of the authentication projects will be happening today, so I’ll definitely be talking about it more tomorrow.

Yesterday’s project work was mostly on creating forms through the use of embedded Ruby and HTML, which is super cool because you can take methods and variables from Ruby, and display them as HTML elements. My partner and I were a bit hung up on some elements, but we really came in clutch at the end, and cranked out another session before the end of the day. That was pretty awesome. That’s pretty much it for today, class is starting now!

Talk to you guys tomorrow! Sorry today’s post is so abrupt and all over the place.