Tech Challenge reflections

Tech Challenge

2/28- Solo
Reflection Questions
What worked well in your process? The thought process, how to break down the problem.
What was difficult/where did you struggle? Getting started- Should have psuedo coded first- need to slow down work through my process
What feedback/discussion did you have with your peer? We spoke about how we would do this in front of an interviewer. Adding other possible solutions. Turn it into a key value pair.
Is there anything you want to change about your approach to the next technical challenge? Thinking about the all possibilities of the answers before trying to solve it one way.
If this isn’t your first technical challenge:

Were you able to improve your approach? What went better? Not in this format. learned a lot though.

3/1-Paired
Reflection Questions
What worked well in your process? Thinking through what the problem was, breaking it down to smaller pieces.
What was difficult/where did you struggle? What I was getting vs what was expected, needed to step back and rethink the syntax
What feedback/discussion did you have with your peer? To slow down and Bob Ross the process :) Over communicate
Is there anything you want to change about your approach to the next technical challenge? Slow down
If this isn’t your first technical challenge:

Were you able to improve your approach? What went better? Yes, I was able to break this down to smaller problems and work my way to the final
solution.

3/2-Paired
Reflection Questions
What worked well in your process? Wlaking through the problem, thinking of edge cases- Romans didn't have a symbol for 0
What was difficult/where did you struggle? Testing before hand, I wanted to code right away, but I really value testing and even though
I didn't get as far into the solution because I tested everything, it was beneficial to show tdd.
What feedback/discussion did you have with your peer? Around not worrying about finishing the challenge but showing testing and whta I do know.
Is there anything you want to change about your approach to the next technical challenge? I wll continue to work on setup and get testing setup faster :) 
If this isn’t your first technical challenge:

Were you able to improve your approach? What went better? Yes felt more comfortable and able to articulate my next steps.



3/3 - Final Reflection
Reflection Questions
What worked well in your process? Able to grow my confidence in my approach. Think about/wirte down questins I have for the 
interviewer.
What was difficult/where did you struggle? Feeling like a failure if I got stuck
What feedback/discussion did you have with your peer? All around continuing to speak through my process. Bob Ross it.
Is there anything you want to change about your approach to the next technical challenge? Write down more items to reference- 
ensure I have my verbage just incase I get nervous.
If this isn’t your first technical challenge:

Were you able to improve your approach? What went better? The nervousness is leasoning, feelingmore comfortable speaking to my approach and thought process.