1. Provide a brief introduction to the assignment along with a link to this page for further details
The goal of assignment2 was to make an e-store where we purchase a product under a specific login. If we didn’t have a login we would have to register our information to access the invoice with our purchase. Details of Assignment2 can be found here.
2. What did you learn from this assignment?
I learned that coding takes a lot of patience and is a slow process. I’m still getting used to taking it slow though. It was a constant struggle and I find myself hitting numerous walls as I tried to complete this assignment by myself.
3. Did you work with a partner? Assign an estimated percentage on the amount each team member contributed to the assignment (including yourself).
I worked on this assignment alone for the most part and consulted many people to get my end result.
4. How did you get help when you needed it? What did you need help with?
I either went into professor Port’s office hours or I reviewed another students Github to see why theirs is working but mine isn’t. I needed help sending the query strings so that they pass through multiple pages.
5. How was developing this assignment different than assignment #1?
Developing this assignment had a lot more requirements and took a lot of lines of code and time to complete. Personally, it was a lot more complicated to grasp what the goal of the website was. Looking back, Assignment 1 was fairly basic and the more we add to these websites I start to see how much more complex websites actually are.
6. Estimate the % of time you spent (a) thinking about how to do something, (b) writing code (but do not include testing, (c) testing and debugging
I would say I spent about 10% thinking about how to do something. Then would spend 40% writing the code, and the last 50% testing and debugging. It was by my mistake that I was tossing in chunks of code and running a test to see what I need to fix until it stopped giving me errors.
7. Describe what worked well with this project? What did not work well?
Nothing per say worked well for me, it was always such a struggle. Spending hours staring at the code not knowing what is going on was not working so well.
8. If you could go back in time and do things differently, what would you do differently?
If I could go back in time, I would start sooner and work with a purpose. Majority of the time I was unmotivated to write the code cause I would be confused and frustrated.