Yesterday we decided to meet today in a library at downtown San Jose to work on the jQuery assignments. This is the major workload for the week. I spent most of the day working on the first assignment which was to create samples of eighteen jQuery methods in action. jQuery is easy in theory but I did make it hard on myself because I didn't read carefully through the API that specified that some methods are obsolete and I wondered for over an hour or two about why some features wouldn't work. It also didn't dawn on me to run debugs as frequently as possible since if there is one error chances are that it will affect the entire code, making even mutually exclusive actions unable to run for reasons that are beyond my understanding. In the last hour of the library I was about ready to give up on the assignment when in the last five minutes I discovered all of these procedures that I have to follow and like a deus ex-machina coming in to save a hopeless situation I completed the assignment and am now dedicating the remainder of the night to the second assignment.
What I liked most about the day was that I got to do my work with three other classmates who I got to meet today. I like meeting new people and spending time with them. Many of them have similar stories, which made it easier to communicate with them. They all want to be web developers and wanted to learn more than the theories they were taught at school. What surprised me the most was their sheer dedication to the coding bootcamp. In hindsight studying engineering at school was a very easy time because the work only required a few hours each day and then everyone was off to have fun. Coding Dojo demands much more than a few hours of studying each day and everyone there is setting aside their entire lives to study all day for the next three months, and maybe more. And we haven't even started the onsite stuff.
We spent most of the day coding, took breaks to get lunch and agreed to meet there again tomorrow. Besides their dedication, everyone there was very willing to help each other out. I was even motivated to explain concepts to anyone who asked for help, even though I know that I'm not much of a talker and have a hard time giving instructions.
The second assignment is to design a webpage with eight images that have disappear when clicked. Then I hit a button that restores all the images. Using Bootstrap (I am seriously in love with Bootstrap) I rapidly coded up the HTML and CSS and am ready to insert the action.
Oh and if you can't tell that's Green Arrow. I figure that if I'm going to do an assignment I might as well make it a little entertaining.
I'm still wired and shouldn't loose an opportunity like this to catch up and be in a better position for tomorrow.
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