Week 5 of my internship is done. Working on Bitbucket on 2 different projects. It's definitely a lot different to work on existing code and not writing a simple app from scratch like in the tutorials. I have to spend time reading and figuring out what is going on in the code. But I figure out things or I ask for help to figure them out. One of the applications is in Dutch including the cucumber feature tests. I think I'm doing ok with it.
This is pretty much sums up how I feel all the time and will for a long time: "Programming is awesome if you like feeling dumb and then eventually feeling less dumb but then feeling dumb about something else pretty soon." I hope I'm learning enough and learning it fast enough.
On Saturday morning, I worked through all of the second week's coursework of the online dutch MOOC course I'm taking through futurelearn and the university of groningen. I didn't work on any code on Saturday.
On Sunday, I finished Chapter 5 of Hartl's Rails tutorial. It's frustrating to only work on the tutorial during the weekend. It's hard to pick it up after not touching it for a week and know where I was, where to go. I need to try to maybe work a little during my train commute on it during the week. I want to finish this book! It was a goal of mine since I first started coding a couple months ago.
Here goes week 6....
