Sprint 4 Tech: Problem Solving
Tell your non-tech friend a story about a time you:
1. were blocked on a simple problem:
- what was the problem?
- what problem-solving techniques did you use?
- how did you feel throughout the process?
- what did you learn?
The problem was to solve the Super FizzBuzz kata! I could not get my head around the logic. I tried google first but I couldn’t understand the specific part where I was stuck. I read some answers on stackoverflow and watched some youtube videos as well. I felt like I knew some bits and bobs, but i did not know how to put them together and make them work. There was frustration and helplessness when I was solving the problem.
2. elegantly solved a problem.
- what was the problem?
- what problem-solving techniques did you use?
- how did you feel throughout the process?
- what did you learn?
The problem was writing the function to capitalize the first letter of every words from a sentence. It was very hard. I did some googling on some concepts, such as split, map, slice etc. I then used console log to use those build-in methods to make sure I knew how to use them to get the result I want. I tried to break the task down so i know what steps to take to get to the end. I did stuck during the whole process. But I went back and googled some videos with instructions to take me through the steps. Then I used console log to test my understanding again. I went back and forth and finally got the result!
3. Reflect on how confident you feel using each of these problem-solving techniques/processes:
- Pseudocode
- Trying something
- Rubber ducky method
- Reading error messages
- Console.logging
- Googling
- Asking your peers for help
- Asking coaches for help
- Improving your process with reflection
As my life is very busy with a newborn, a 6 year old and COVID at the moment. My time and energy is very limited, I am trying my best to juggle and be productive. I feel like I did not spend too much time connecting with my peers via discord. But I do really want to reach out and work with my peers! This is something i need to work on in BootCamp. With no coding experiences previously at all, I feel like I already did my best regarding my current situation. I am trying to be kind and show self-compassion to myself while all the self-doubt and mommy guilt came in the way.