Another week has flown by. It was filled with learning, learning, learning, bike riding, eating lots of chocolate, some rain, but some really warm and sunny days, meal prep, gym, and learning. These are my highlights:
Having lunch break outside in Bowling Green Park...
This park is New York's oldest public park (since 1733) and we are lucky that it is just outside Flatiron School. The park has a very positive vibe and I (and lots of other lunchers) love spending lunch break there - sitting on the wooden benches underneath the trees, in the sunshine, enjoying the warmth, feeling and smelling the sea breeze coming from the nearby sea. This is our location:
What are all these tourists doing around the Bull?
The biggest attraction new to the park is the bronze statue Charging Bull, or sometimes referred to as Wall Street Bull. Tourists are crazy about it!
They want to touch his balls!
Oh yeah, people are crawling under the bulls butt to get to its testicles... They stand for virility and cannot hurt to touch them, right?
We built an app for an Amusement Park
Like last week we had an all day lab that we solved in pair programming. It was definitely more challenging than the last one and we needed the next morning to finalize it. The task was to build out an app for an amusement park where the user would choose attractions and virtually take rides. What's new this time is the user authentication and authorization feature. Before I started the bootcamp I would have never thought at it would take weeks of learning Ruby before being able to learn and understand the underlying concepts for such simple things like login, logout, and sign up. As weird as it may sound: I am proud to say, "I build an app where you can login and logout!"
And... We are approaching project week again!
This week has been the most tiring so far. he Rails curriculum got denser with more CRUD, RESTful routes, authentication, authorization, sessions, MVC refactoring, ... For the first time I feel like I need to challenge myself to keep up with the pace. I am not alone. On Feelings Friday almost every single classmate expressed that they felt exhausted.
Flatiron was right. When Joe, the school's head of education, spoke to us in orientation in the first days, he mentioned that we should get enough sleep in the first weeks, because it would get difficult after week 3.
That said, our class is looking forward to next week because we are approaching the last week of module 2. And this means: Project Week! We'll spend the whole week to create an awesome project in a group of three. Like our last group project this will be a great and fun learning experience. How to divvy up the work, how to merge code, how to solve opposing ideas, etc. And at the end we will have a tangible, maybe ugly, but working app that we'll be proud of. The difference to last week is that we are creating a web app (not CLI) and so it will be something much more visual to work on and to present. Oh hello our new best friends Bootstrap and Materialize!
Github repo for our Amusement Park App:
https://github.com/qtotuan/rails-amusement-park-web-051517
