The first day of the second week started off well and ended up frustrating.
We began with a quiz which combined all of the info from last week. I scored a 100% on this, which was good, because I had two sub-par quizzes in a row and I needed a bounce-back. I spent a lot of the weekend working on my text-based adventure, which has basically nothing to do with class. Perhaps I should have stuck to the lessons, but the lure of game-creation was too much. Besides, everyone says it’s good to work on side-projects.
When I mentioned that I had started a role-playing adventure, two other .Net students confessed that they had as well. We swapped and chatted.
The lesson for the day was about Objects. Objects are at the base of the C# language and are basically the most important thing we will learn during the boot camp. I believe I understood the reading and the lesson pretty well and I look forward to the following lectures on Class which will shore up some holes in the knowledge.
After the lecture, there was a Pathway presentation about elevator pitches. The term is borrowed from the film industry and means that you should have a sales pitch ready that can be explained from the time you get on an elevator with someone until they get off on their floor. Basically, a thirty to forty second blurb about who you are and why someone would want to hire you.
I was happy with the bit I worked out during the presentation, but I look forward to the workshop on Wednesday where I’ll get to say it in front of people and get feedback.
Then came the exercises. It wouldn’t have been too bad had there been fifteen or twenty. But there were thirty. I worked from two until six-thirty. I finished twenty-three of the problems, but on four of them I have issues that still need fixing. I will be in at 7:00 or 7:30 tomorrow morning to knock out the remaining work.
It was a long one.
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