E6 - Reflecting on Assignment 3

12 May 2022

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https://youtu.be/lHCDJI4wES8

Briefly describe your system (e.g. A store selling Pokemon game cards)

My system is a store that sells boba like milk tea, fruit tea, and smoothies. There is also a small selection of cakes for fun.

Any notable shortcomings, bugs, problems, or additional features not implemented?

A notable shortcoming is the favorites didn’t work well, didn’t toggle checked or not, and would display all the items in the array before it even if they weren’t checked.

EDIT: Please note that this was written after I had gotten the favorites to add to cart and subsequently given up. I DID IT. So my updated shortcoming is that the favorites don’t go away when added to the cart.

Describe what you are most proud of about your system:

I am most proud that it is actually working. I am extremely proud of the IR4 and that I got it to work after I was ready to give up.

Describe what you are least happy with your system:

I’m least happy with some of the css and displayed things. I compromised on areas such as the email invoice and favorites table. It looks ugly but does the job.

How was developing this assignment different than assignment #2?

It took even more time but with so much less code. Even the add to favorites which I thought was going to be incredibly drawn out and difficult was quite short.

Update: After going back and completing IR4, my statements are more than ever true. The code that made it all work properly was like 2 if-statements. ugh.

When you ran into a problem, what did you do to address it?

I spent a lot of time working through problems. I was coming at all angles when things didn’t work. If there were error messages I had to stop and think about what it means and where it’s coming from. After it didn’t work I took a break, which was often walking my dog and I could theorize possible ways of solving the issue.

Describe what worked well in doing this assignment?

I think implementing the code examples worked very well for me and it was very helpful. Asking for help worked well too.

Describe what did not work well in doing this assignment?

Inventory management.

What did you learn from doing this assignment?

I learned that loadjson can also send data and not just receive, this was crucial in beginning my individual requirement.

If you could go back in time and do things differently, what would you change?

I’d probably bother Professor Port way earlier.

Estimate the % of time you spent (a) thinking about how to do something, (b) writing code (but do not include testing, (c) testing and debugging

20% thinking- I did a lot of thinking after writing and failing at debugging. Often when driving(distracted driving 101), walking my dog, and at any moment of peace in my life. It was truly disturbing. I actually woke up at 5 am suddenly with the code flying around my brain to fix my last problem and it worked.

40% writing

40% debugging