Previous to this module my project management skills had seriously decayed. A large focus for each project was keeping a clean and organized waffle card, an active private Slack channel for each project, serious consistent code review, and Google Calendar for deadlines. I made serious efforts to accomplish this by being frank with my project-mates and patient with my projects.
My progress through the module was assessed by Josh Cheek and here are the results:
"We did a nice refactoring where we moved logic into a state machine."
Note: the assessment took 3 hours.
- Satisfactory progress 3
- Ruby styniax and style 3
- Rails style and api 3
- Testing 3.5
- User interface 3
Like all modules before it, I attended each day. I had two tardies, one on Tuesday, June 16th and one on Wednesday, June 24th.
I completed the following individual project for this module:
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In this four-day project I implemented the bare essentials of Idea Box in JavaScript. I was peer evaluated by Richard and Paul with these generous results:
"Code and testing looks good!"
- Features: 3
- User Interface: 2
- Rails Style: 3
- Ruby Style: 4
- JavaScript Style: 3
I participated in the following team projects:
This two week long project utilized a previous cohort's Pivot project and a seed data of ~1 million objects to help us experience harsh load times and a need for optimization. Our project was evaluated by Horace with the following results:
"Nice handling of poorly scoped ActiveRecord queries."
- Production Performance: 1 -- not running in production
- Load Testing: 2
- DB Scale: Check
- Testing: 2
- Code Quality: 2
- Additional Features: 2
I wrote the entirety of the Capybara load testing script. I also refactored sloppy hard-to-work-with scoping so the rest of the team could focus on writing better ActiveRecord queries.
- Inheriting code is awful
- Large data sets are managable
- Writing scripts is fun
This week-and-a-half long project was a pure JavaScript implementation of a simple game. In our case that game was Lights Out. It was evaluated by Horace with the following results:
"This is actually fun."
- Functional Expectations 3-
- Test-Driven Development 2
- Breaking Logic into Components 3
- Fundamental JavaScript & Style 3
We did not split the responsibilities and made sure to each take full responsiblity for every aspect of the project. If I did have a focus, it was writing the tests and keeping us on a TDD track.
- OO JS is just a matter of organization
- TDD is mostly self discipline
- Project management tools are useful even in a team of two
This two week mastery project was a demonstration of websockets and software as a service through a Slack clone. Our particular project aimed to provide a structure for groups to come to decisions. We were evaluated by Horace with the following results:
- Services 2:
- Encapsulation 2:
- Rails MVC 3:
- Test-Driven Development 2:
- Deployment 3:
- Features 3:
- Interface 3:
- Concept 3:
- Project Management process 3:
I was the primary Rails developer on this project and I spent a lot of time TDDing and making sure we had a great foundation. I also implemented a few Rails features solely for the benefit of the other developers which felt like a great use of time. Additionally, I was the team member who troubleshot miscellaneous problems with the various integration of our code.
- Code review is key to writing great software
- Being the team member who touches everything forces you to keep a lot in your head at once.
- Pick your battles. Let some design decisions go.
According to the Feedback application:
- I delivered 0% of the requested feedback
Throughout the six weeks I pushed myself to pair with as many other students as I could. I attended and advocated for every DSA session during the six weeks.
- On Tuesday, May 19th, I deep cleaned the north refrigerator in classroom A.
- On Friday, May 22nd, I delivered a lightning talk titled "Metaprogramming is Meta cool!"
- On Tuesday, June 9th, I delivered an expanded version of my metaprogramming lightning talk at the Denver.rb beginner's track
- On Friday, June 12th, I ran a student lead session on JavaScript for Rubyists
- On Thrusday, June 18th, I delivered the metaprogramming lightning talk at Community Night
- On Thursay, June 25th, I wrote a blog post titled "The Turing Bar" which was featured on turing.io
- Also on Thursday, June 25th, my posse won the first ever posse cup. #HopperPosse4Lyfe #hatersgonnahate #tastytears Read here about Grace Hopper Con