Technical Challenge Reflections

tc_reflections.md

Challenge 1

Millions of Numbers

• What felt good about your process? I tried a new solution after my first one worked

• What was difficult/where did you struggle? My new solution performed WORSE than the first one

• What feedback did you receive? I learned how to use process.time() and process.timeEnd() to measure the time efficiency of my solutions

Challenge 2

What did I order?

• What felt good about your process? Pseudocoding felt good

• What was difficult/where did you struggle? Figuring out how to produce permutations algorithmically was confusing

• What feedback did you receive? Try hard problems like this when your brain is well-rested. Brute-forcing it won't work

Challenge 3

Robot

• What felt good about your process? I came up with alternative approaches that worked, by looking for patterns

• What was difficult/where did you struggle? The algorithm worked fine, but the particulars of the javascript code I wrote had wrong assumptions that had to be debugged

• What feedback did you receive? I should console.log at each step to check if my changes worked

Challenge 4

Next Palindrome

• What felt good about your process? I checked each step with console logging, starting with my helper functions. It was really fun to write

• What was difficult/where did you struggle? I kinda didn't at all! it was very short and satisfying I guess noticing that numbers in JS don't have a built-in reverse took a second to think about

• What feedback did you receive? I used .join() wrong the first time, forgetting that if you omit the .join("") argument it adds a comma to the result. But I quickly found that error and fixed it