One more video!
One more video!
So, that was a hell of a ride.
Here are my last two videos from Launch Academy – the first was done at the end of Week 8; the second is from yesterday and recaps the last two weeks, the Career Days, and touches briefly on the job I have taken!
If you just want to know about the job, head to 3:51 of the second video.
Side note – I find it funny how I’m in exactly the same chair for both videos, and you can essentially see a time-lapse of foliage in my back yard.
I have a low-key flip-out about how there aren’t 4 more hours to a day.
Today we started our team projects at Launch Academy; the whole cohort has been broken into teams of 4-5 people, and we’ve been given our task – build an entire website.
There’s a lot of room for us to prioritize and create stories for what we want to do; as with all software development, it’ll be easy for us to get lost going down rabbit holes and to fall victim to scope creep.
One of my fellow launchers asked my advice on how to project plan for this; here’s what I told him. We’re mostly using Trello for this work, so my recommendations are based around that.
With that, here we go:
This can be a lot to keep in mind! I would recommend taking a shot at your backlog setup, looking at this list, and then seeing if anything needs to change. After a couple cycles through setting up and completing stories, you’ll start to have an instinct for when a story isn’t fully ready to be done.
Good luck!
What happens when you take a shortened week and add a week and a half of JavaScript material to it? Sadly, I didn’t get me weeping blood on video.
Week five was, in a word, brutal. It was the toughest stuff to date, for me – wrapping our heads around Rails in the space of a couple days. Along with that, though, I’m feeling more and more comprehension, curiosity, and excitement about everything that’s going on.
Week four is done! I took this video yesterday, on Monday of week five.
Week three, done! And boy, do I look tired in this video.
I’m actually that tired.
Week two is in the bag. I spent most of that week sick, which made things extremely challenging – but I’m more and more excited about the possibilities of the things I’m learning.
I’m alive! And starting week 2 this morning. Here’s my video reactions to the first week, taken on Saturday: