Web Dev Bootcamp WIL Week-1

Today marks the end of the first week of my web dev bootcamp experience. We finished the week by presenting our team intro project to the whole bootcamp. Though we were able to present a functioning website, I personally felt that I did not contribute nearly enough as the other members had. As mentioned in my previous vlogs, divvying the project workload amongst the team proved difficult as we wanted to independently learn by creating our own versions of the project. This plan proved to be inefficient, however, as we spent less time communicating and ended up creating non-complete projects. Viewing other team's projects, it seemed that some teams were able communicate how to divide the workload between HTML / CCS / backend in an effective manner. I believe learning GIT will be essential as we learn to work on the same files.

 

What I have learned from this first week is that frontend development requires a high level of creativity as one needs to understand how different pieces will fit together for the overall big picture design. I got caught up in implementing css features that I unable to practice actually launching the web page on a server as well as use GET/POST methods.

I will need to spend the weekend reviewing our project code by commenting on each feature. I will continue familiarizing myself with python frameworks as we approach more advanced machine learning concepts in the coming weeks. 

 

It was difficult to enter a flow state during this week as I felt overwhelemed in meeting the tight deadline while other people in my team seemed to leave me in the dust. I think I will need to respect my learning level but at the same time apply myself so that I will not leave this bootcamp empty-handed.

 

TODO:

• Comment on our project code to review flask and mongodb concepts.
• Be more proactive in team meetings.
• Internalize team project
• Do not solely rely on team members' capabilities.
• Keep exercising for survival!