Day 52: Final MEAN Project Week Continued

I'm making this entry earlier than usual. Today VT and I were suppose to get started coding the project and putting them all together so we can focus on the Black Belt preparation tomorrow. VT spent a couple of hours this morning working on the sprite while I worked more of the Black Belt material. I would have done more except the sprite job was a one-man job. Him and RS hijacked one of the offices cause they couldn't stand the noise out there and they really wanted to just focus today. I decided to study in there today and see which I like better. I prefer the main study arena. It is a little stuffy in here and there is a sense of isolation. I'll be sure to avoid studying there tomorrow.

After lunch VT and RS became consumed with their project. They had underestimated its difficulty. This entire bootcamp focuses on software but they are being ambitious and trying to create their own hardware component to upload their program into. I like their idea but I didn't think they'd have enough time to complete it since project week means only one week. But VT insists that this is how life is as a real coder so what else could I do to talk him down?

Without the sprite I can't do any of the coding for the day so I focused on the Black Belt stuff. Okay I admit I am doing exactly what I did for the Red Belt, taking one of the tests and doing it on my own pace. This stack was so hard and I need to go back and review a lot of material if I am going to pass the exam and that is going to take longer than five hours. I'll use it as a guideline for the retake on Friday. And who knows, perhaps I'll be given that exact test on that day and I could avoid the time pressure. Normally I'd be bothered by this but like I said earlier this stack was very hard and I needed more time and assignments to get this done. I am learning something from the preparation and SP showed me a great way to use factories as Angular's version of sessions. I'm also going to review the textbook VT has given me after the bootcamp is over.

I'm finished with the Black Belt material for the day and I'll be going home early. I suppose there is an agenda to that. VT has finished making the sprites for the game and he need to now just splice them all together and he needs photoshop for that. Neither of us have that installed in our computers and the version we found online was too poorly setup to do the things we need it to do. I do have it at home and I could complete that part from there.