Ok, so I had a plan on what I was going to do/work on each week and almost down to each day for the first week. BUT, my dear advisor, Katie, suggested that I not do what I thought I should do and do something else instead. Le sigh... and so it goes. Haha... oh well.
Today, I mostly worked on database/schema stuff. Getting the idea of what the tables should hold, what each table should have as an attribute, how each table is connected to other tables... all done on glorious paper. I even took a break around noon to go to Walgreen's to buy graph paper and some highlighters. Plus, I couldn't resist write-on post-it book mark thingies. Talk about fun. I made my second Kanban board too. Pictures of that later this week.
Julie came over today and asked me about math stuff... dot products, you know... stuff I haven't thought about in over 30 years. Still, it was cool to talk about it and to discuss other ways of approaching her problem.
Oh, my issue for today with programming. I got my data tables set up, but for some reason, I couldn't get the stupid things to read into a database. So, I left Hackbright and went home. Problem #1 was that I didn't have it committed to a session(figured out this in the bathroom visit prior to leaving Hackbright). Problem #2 was that I was scanning the ratings exercise readme instead of actually reading it. So, I wasn't quite comprehending what I needed to. So hard to concentrate sometimes. I think I need to sit somewhere else tomorrow. Also, it was at the end of the day (Excuses, excuses). Problem #3, I have no idea why, but I deleted all my .db files, revised, double checked and checked my code again and again. Re-ran things according to the readme and combining it with later parts of the exercise. Magically, it worked. I have no idea why.
Next up, getting some data for recipes and users and components.
Oh, in getting my data tables set up, I added an extra one in that was completely unnecessary. It's a convoluted sense of logic that I was trying to work through and like always, I was making things more difficult that I needed to. Fortunately, Joel was there to stop me from going to far down the rabbit hole and it got all squared away.
Tomorrow, writing data tables for the above classes (recipes, users, components). Testing the hell out of those and then maybe getting them onto a web page... the main page of my glaze calculator.
I fully expect my emotions to be on a roller coaster ride, screaming along side my confidence.
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