Day 54: MEAN Project Presentation And Black Belt Retake

Man did today begin with a thrust. I barely walked into the dojo when the instructor posted a message that we'll be presenting in one hour and VT was late and telling me to piece everything together on my own. It was tricky but I finally got it down.

So what is this big project that we've been keeping a secret? We made a game based on the new Star Wars movie. Using PhaserJS we created a cheap game. Overall it was a terrible game with the only redeemable quality was the sprite we created specifically for the game. We expect that early on and on Monday we thought that we can compensate further with theatrics. Presentation counts and I suggested that we wear matching Star Wars shirts. He was cool with the idea but last night everyone found out and the jokes began that it deterred him. Wish he could have told me that sooner before I purchased the shirts.

The presentation went by quickly and I hid one of the errors with an allegory. The background shifted as the character climbed up the cave and I used it was an allegory for his ascension from the darkness of the cave to the surface and the light. I hope I wasn't being too dark. We finished quickly and watched the others present much better projects. 

We discussed this afterwards and VT took some blame for this. He tried being ambitious by working on two projects and one project turned our terrible and he didn't even present the other project because it was remained incomplete. Jack of all trade, master of none. 

After the presentations the instructor offered to give retakes for the Black Belts. Most of us didn't pass it last week but after the presentation we just wanted to relax. Many of us took off for a late lunch while others stayed and played games. I still wanted to take it but delayed it was much as possible. I did want to relax like the rest of them but I knew that I'd be bothered by leaving this task incomplete so at 3PM I buckled down and took the test. 

Five hours later I am finished. It was intimidating initially but once the feeling passed I completed 90% of it before submission. That should be enough. Even if I fail at least at this moment I feel accomplished.

I'm ending this day and this stack on a good note. It was the hardest stack so far and I struggled everyday to keep up but I persisted and made enough of a breakthrough to finish decently. After the bootcamp this stack will be the focus of my professional growth. 

For now I celebrate the weekend with a good start. The beach awaits!!!