Day 5

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Today had a rough start. We decided to start potty training today and my wife and I were not on the same page about what that would look like in terms of the amount of coding I would get done today. Thankfully we got things moving pretty smoothly about noon. I then proceeded to complete my first part of the Intro to Ruby curriculum! I now have a functioning CLI Tic Tac Toe game built in Ruby. It can be found here. Pretty proud of myself for this one. I got stuck on one part and had to do a screen share with what is called a “Learn Expert” but it was actually a quick fix. I was stuck on utilizing a ternary. I had the following problem:

# This is passing tests
if draw?(board)
  puts "Cats Game!"
else
  puts "Congratulations #{winner(board)}!"
end
# This is not passing tests
draw?(board) ? puts "Cats Game!" : puts "Congratulations #{winner(board)}!"

I couldn’t figure out why. Turns out I needed to just put puts in front of the ternary because it was going to do that action to either result of the code. This quick fix had my one line solution passing the rspec tests.

puts draw?(board) ? "Cats Game!" : "Congratulations #{winner(board)}!"

This puts me at 78% of the way through the Intro to Ruby curriculum so I hope to finish that, or be very close to finishing that, today!

Just like that, before 5 pm I just finished the Into to Ruby track by refactoring my Tic Tac Toe code from before. I now have a CLI Tic Tac Toe game that utilizes Object Oriented programming which can be found here. I’ve gotten into a good groove and think utilizing the Pomodoro technique is key on these long days. It allows me time to break away for a bit. I’m 42 minutes on and 18 minutes off right now. A key takeaway from this short intro to OO programming is that “an object in code is a thing with all the data and all the logic required to complete a task.” I think this sums up an object well and I’ve always struggled with figuring this out.

I thought of objects being like biological cells and/or individual computers on a network, only able to communicate with messages. - Alan Kay

Next up are some sections that I think will go quickly:

  1. Git and GitHub
  2. HTML and CSS
  3. Procedural Ruby (only because a bunch of this is done already from this Intro course) After that is a large chunk, for good reason, on Object Oriented Ruby. I hope to get through all the lessons and labs for this by the end of the weekend and be working on the “Final Projects” for Ruby starting Monday. I think I can do it! We’ll see what reality dictates, though.

I was right about the Git & GitHub section. Finished that in ~45 mins. Helps that I’ve been using GitHub for a while. At the end of the section was this: git_comic

HTML and CSS are taking longer than I expected because there are code along videos and there isn’t really a way to run through those too quickly.

It was a productive day.

Time spent today: 7:22
Time spent total: 19:35
Lessons completed today: 53

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