tibbon/Banque — pull request #9 by egong (2013-08-13 17:34:06+00:00)
Title: Thoughts on the assignment

This assignment seemed particularly difficult because it was a free for all in terms of creating a rails application. I decided to instead of struggle through this homework painfully and reaching for answers from repos and google, to start writing things from scratch (vs looking at old code and copying) and actually think through the assignment. Between class time and doing this assignment at home I came up with the code in the banque.js and banque_spec.js files. It's not a lot but I got it down pretty good and I'm actually confident in a work I did which wasn't the case in the past.

When you asked the class today why they didn't submit pull requests I think its because they are encountering difficulties just as I am and are scared to show it, not because they decided to take the night off. In the past I'd just raise my hand and say wow this was hard but after 8 weeks of doing that, it still hasn't encouraged any students to be vocal. I haven't taken any days easy this entire course and I can honestly say I've worked hard every day. It's just really difficult to learn this stuff this fast, especially for someone who hasn't been in a learning environment in years and has family priorities after hours before they can get to coding. I know I was up till midnight yesterday and I wish I could have stayed up later.

With that said, reviewing the ajax and javascript today through the handlebars assignment was awesome. It refreshed and solidified alot of things I was missing concept wise. I feel like learning is about repetition and its hard to get that when we have to learn Javascript in a week. I wanted to share this more in my 1-on-1 but this pull request seemed more timely.