week 9 and counting…

Our last programming meeting was yesterday at our usual time, Wednesday 4-8pm.

There was a great feeling of triumph and accomplishment.  “finish strong!” we would say.  And i really feel like we’re on a good stretch towards the finish line.

We finished programming.  Our wonderful Jen Santos did away with the last CSS error that was showing up on Facebook.  I added some more buttons/caps to even out the list.  And we spent the last hour of our meeting looking up fun facts and enjoying ourselves with the ridiculous randomness in the world.

We are planning on meeting up tomorrow, Friday at 9am to figure out and delegate the paper.  Jen and Jill had already formulated a basic outline containing, Intro, Methods, Discussion and Results.

one thing i realized was that i really forgot the specifics of all the programming difficulties that really made life miserable.  We struggled so much but now, we don’t even remember what we struggled with because it’s solved in such neat little lines of code.

it’s amazing how much our code has shrunk.  there are like two lines of code for each major function and that’s it.  that’s all that’s needed.  while it’s refreshing, it also is kind of annoying because the process of getting to those few lines were hours and hours of experimenting and trying things out.

so a major lesson i learned was that one can always learn things online.  i don’t need a formal class or anything.  only motivation is necessary and required.