Wow this mornings dream team catch up feels like days ago, so much has gone on today my brain is scrambled. As usual there was some gaming chat, Karsten is also organising a quiz for the weekend and more Street Fighter 2!
But I do remember a conversation about feedback and about putting myself out there — this certainly isn’t a natural thing for me to do but something I have been doing a lot during the course. This comes from a mix of two things, dropping my ego — I am here to learn so my submissions will not be perfect and that is ok, and not being fearful of the response I will get back, all feedback is good and I can learn from it.
We had no workshops this morning so self direct learning it was. I decided to start our afternoon challenge building a thermostat and dig into some of the learning resources. Charlie posted a request in the channel for some help to fix his code, I didn’t think that I could help but maybe learn from someone helping him so I asked to jump on the call to spectate.
I wasn’t the only one and a group debugging session had begun. Surprisingly to me I helped fix the first of his issues with his code and contributed to fixing the rest of the issues — this seems to be a trend and something I enjoy.
Lunch was shorter today with Dana running a workshop on Team Communications and personality traits — it reminded me of some learning I did back when I worked for MassChallenge where we mapped out our Myers Briggs results and could understand why and how people worked better. Something I want to dig into in our next group project.
Unfortunately this afternoon workshop meant I only had an hour to pair with Holly today, after our coffee last week we have built a great rapport so didn’t need much of an introductory chat. We got started on the Thermostat challenge that I had interrupted this morning, it was great as we have similar coding habits to help us make sure our syntax is correct.
I have decided that any opportunity to get feedback on my code is now non negotiable — so off to the process workshop I went. Today I had two choices, 1. Do a harder challenge in Ruby or 2. Do the easiest challenge in JavaScript — I chose to challenge myself and try it in JavaScript, the language I have only been learning for four days.
I was paired off with another beginner (I am not sure what the universe is trying to teach me here) and helped him with his first workshop and then I was up. To be honest it wasn’t awful, I forgot a word to make my tests work and wasn’t able to make my code look smarter at the end but other than that, it was good!
Software and Soca
Today’s choice is a public reminder to myself, that I will become a bomb ass developer and I will do whatever that takes. So here is the best young talent out of Trinidad — Voice, by any means!
