#femaletech

Learnings:

Yesterday we learned javascript and I wasn't getting some of the core concepts until Quinn decided to talk to me. It all has to do with the idea of objects and in he objects you can have hashes and keys. You can create different attributes in objects the minute you ask someone to input the data. 

I finally got Rspec yesterday. We did a little review in the am over it and I am happy. Some people complained about the time but if we are only as strong as our weakest link what do they want the professors to do? new material all the time. 

Headaches, I have been getting a lot of headaches and it is so not fair. It just keeps on persisting in the front - right between my eyes. 

Amazed:

I am amazed I get up every day to go to the Flatiron district because I don't like crowds and I didn't like taking crowded subway stations.  It is amazing that when you really want to do something their are numerous things that you do to get that. I believe this was one of the best decisions I have made and I will definitely be smarter in the field when I am done. 

Grateful for:

Stephanie, she bought us ice cream and told us congrats on project week. We also have cool sweaters from GA.

My professors for spiraling work yesterday. I finally understood Rspec this time around. Also, the class session had a better rhythm, 

Bonnie and Christina, they talk to me all the time about how I am doing.

Week one is done and we have accomplished the following (Phil created this for us. It is pretty cool:

# Week 1 - OVA

# Great First Week, Kickhash!

what_we_learned = {

  :dev_environment => [

     "Learned how to navigate the terminal",

     "set up our bash profiles",

     "pushed and pulled with Git",

     "coded along with Sublime"

  ],

  :ruby => [

     "intro to ruby",

     "conditional logic",

     "datatypes",

     "methods",

     "installing and using gems",

     "debugging with pry",

     "intro to object oriented programming"

  ] 

}

review_sesh = {

  :location => "902 Broadway",

  :day => "Saturday",

  :time => "10:30am - 3:30pm"

}

bbq = {

  :location => "66 7th Ave, Brooklyn",

  :day => "Saturday",

  :time => "5pm to 1am"

}

It seems like I really did go through a lot of emotions this week.  I was on the verge of quitting on Wednesday just because things seem so chaotic and I didn't know what the hell was going on with our instructions/instructors. But everyone is affable and a part of me know that this is it for me. I have a lot ridding on this because my future keeps on going back to technology.  The interesting thing is we are going to get there together and if yesterday is an indication of future days then I am happy.  The instructors are coming into themselves and we as students are learning more and more about the flow of things.  

I still don't get much sleep although Thursday night I had help with my homework -Craig helped me, I didn't send it in. I went to sleep that night for 7 hours. Most nights I sleep for 5 hours. This program is going to push my mind and body because I am also boxing early in the morning before class. Getting up at 4 am to get tot he gym by 6 am to do an hour and a half workout to get to class around 8:30 am.  I definitely need to workout because I am sitting all day. 

We meet our cohort this week. I am excited. We meet Friday - September 20th at General Assembly and we meet on Sunday the 22nd to install all the components we will need for our courses.  I am trying to finish up the Ruby exercise in Code Academy. The course looks like it might be done quickly but it really isn't - it will take some time.  Or maybe it is because I am writing the code down that I see to really understand some of the concepts.