Week 5, Day 3
So, here we are project week. It is kind of stressful in terms of homework and etc. But on the other hand you feel pressure to get things done and can you build something you like at the end. If at the end of the week I know how to place forms and know the relationships and push up to heroku then I would have learned a lot more than I knew at the end of last week.
Teachers:
They are doing their best and they really are some of the better instructors I had in my career. It is a combination of their will to make sure we get this and always being there for us no matter what level we are at.
Stephanie M. my associate program director is awesome!!!! She is always checking up on us and making sure that we are okay. I value you that and I don’t know how to put my finger on it but I think the hiring committee did a great job with the people they allowed to be in our support circle. I am continually in awe or maybe just pleased in terms of being at 902 Broadway and that goes for everyone here. Rashad, Bonnie, Sara, Christina, Lisa, and everyone else I have met here so far.
Learning:
As of today we have learned more about partials, we had a course this past weekend about using Skeleton. We have stand up groups now to go over our projects. We also have learned about doing user stories and sketching to get our ideas across. We did a Pig Latin drill yesterday morning:
Pig Latin Translator
Plan FIRST. You’ll have 15 mins to plan your app before you can open your computer.
Implement a Ruby method translate that takes a word (string) as an argument and returns its pig latin equivalent. Description of the rules from Wikipedia:
For words that begin with consonant sounds, the initial consonant or consonant cluster is moved to the end of the word, and “ay” is added, as in the following examples:
"happy" → "appyhay"
"duck" → "uckday"
"glove" → "oveglay"
For words that begin with vowel sounds or silent letter, “way” is added at the end of the word. Examples are
"egg" → "eggway"
"inbox" → "inboxway"
"eight" → "eightway"
BONUS 1
The letter ‘y’ can play the role of either consonant or vowel, depending on its location
"yellow" → "ellowyay"
"rhythm" → "ythmrhay"
BONUS 2
How do you deal with words starting with “qu” or “squ” ?
"queen" → "eenquay"
"squeal" → "ealsquay"
Well, that is enough for now. Have to think about many to many relationships.
