SO MANY TIMES.
In this sprint there were heaps of times that I was "blocked" because I was still a little unsure on how to use some of the functions, comprehension and the fact that the "math was not mathing.".
Because I am a beginner to coding, this sprint was definitely a challenge. However, by some miracle of trial and error, research, console.logging, mental breaks away from my laptop and of course google, I completed the Kata Tasks and made it through the week.
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However, I found that when I would eventually find the solution to my headache - it was because I had either forgotten a comma, space between a bracket or forgot an "s" on a word that was meant to be plural.
Grammer & spelling is really important. It led me to a lot of "ah huh" moments and "oh duh" moments.
Elegantly solved? I don't think I solved these problems elegantly. But they got solved. But, honestly with the multiple different techniques that have been presented, solutions were found. 😅
An example:
Personally, I like Trial and Error as a method, but it isn't always practical for time crunching situations.
However, throughout this sprint have discovered new methods and rediscovered some important ones.
At the moment my confidence for the above techniques are sitting at a 3.5/5 star rating.
Pseudo is great but sometimes it takes me a little while to break down the problem into smaller blocks and to comprehend what the actual task at hand is and what it is asking me to do. However, I found that using pseudo in conjunction with console.log to see if it was doing what it was what I wanted to do.
One thing that I will definitely be looking at improving is asking for help. I need to be more confident in asking for help from my peers.