Andela Bootcamp Experience: Home Sessions
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
This is the sequel to the first article on the same topic and if you haven’t read that yet, please check here.
It’s a new week and it’s the beginning of the next phase of the bootcamp: Home Sessions. At this stage, bootcampers are expected to solve programming exercises off-site i.e. at home. This appear to be trivial until that moment when you have to contend wih poor power supply and unstable internet connectivity.
Well, as Roosevelt said, you have to do things you think you can’t do so, I had to relocate from my crib to the public library.
The day’s deliverables include but not limited to,
- Function to demonstrate Object Oriented Programming in Javascript.
- Function that checks for input data types and returns appropriate results depending on the input.
Mid-day and I still can’t get the OOP functions to pass all test. What could be the problem? Could it be jasmine-node ? Nope. Syntax error? No. OOP concept? Yes.
Damn it! Prototypal Inheritance at it again. Switched to Classical Inheritance, and I was able to pass all test.
Key Learning Points
- Stick to standards or widely accepted models.
- Do not implement what you do not understand.
- Never stop improving on what you already know.
That’s it for now. I need to improve on my http and the web skills.
