The Future

I can feel the end of my time at Flatiron approaching rapidly. Heck, if I had not taken so long on the capstone, I would have graduated already. I know these posts are supposed to be technical and code related, and I will add some of that into here, but i first wanted to just thank my cohort leader, Nancy Noyes, for everything she has done for me, the immeasurable patience she has had through my constant personal issues and timing problems, and for being an amazing teacher and individual. I highly doubt I would have made it this far if Nancy had not been there to help me.

Ok, now on to the coding. While working through my capstone, it made me realize several things about user intractability, and the absolute nightmare that a messy web of coding can create. One of my biggest struggles in the capstone that I plan to fix in the future was that I was trying to do too much at once in my haste, and this made it so that I would spend more time working out errors in my code than I would actually coding. It got to the point where I really just wanted to start over from scratch, but I lacked the time to do so. In the future, I will make sure to work on things step by step, get one part done BEFORE moving on to the next, and generally just not try to create a spiderweb of dependability.

Oh, about the issue I wrote of in my last post about psql, I realized that the issue was in psql itself and so I swapped my code over to sqlite3. That simple change fixed almost all of my problems with the rails side of things.

From here, my next goal is to go back to my projects from phases 1 and 2 and make them even more in depth, and update them to be on the same technical standard as the last 2. The funniest thing to me is that project 1 and project 2 are the 2 projects that I am the happiest about the outcome of. In my opinion they just looked better and felt better to write than the phase 4 or capstone projects.

My most immediate goal at this point now, however, is to get myself an entry level job in the programming and coding career path, just to get a start in what I plan to do for most of the rest of my life. I have already started to apply to a few, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

Thank you for following along in my blog posts, I may not be the best at blogging, but I am hopeful for the future, Tristan.