Today I spent more than ten solid hours concentrating on the second capstone with Jack.
We’re both early birds, so we tend to arrive at Tech Elevator between 7 and 7:30, nearly two hours before class starts each day. When a capstone is on, there is no lecture. So Jack and I hit the ground running at 7:30, coffees steaming in front of us and the glow of the computer screen in our eyes.
We made a ton of progress before breaking for lunch. As I said yesterday, our second capstone is a reservation system for national parks. We have to create a menu that takes a user through viewing the names of parks, the subsequent campgrounds within, and then view the sites within those campgrounds that are available to book and, ultimately, the ability to book a new reservation.
By noon, we had everything finished except for the search of availability, the booking, and the integration testing. We were in such a flow state that I think we would have worked straight through lunch if that were an option. But it wasn’t. We had visitors.
BNY Mellon bought the monks of Tech Elevator lunch today. And it was excellent. A mound of marinated steak strips with peppers and onions, salad of green beans and chicken glazed with mustard and mayonnaise, and a quinoa salad with cubed sweet potatoes. A good spread.
BNY Mellon sent three representatives of their tech division, one of them a former Tech Elevator student, recently hired by the financial giant. They made their pitch to the students and all went well. I’m certainly interested in employment there and had a good conversation with Tom, a manager in charge of infrastructure.
Then it was back to the national parks. Jack and I almost finished. We nailed the method which allows us to book a reservation, but we got hung up on ciphering out the dates that have already been booked. These dates where someone already has a reservation should not show up when the user searches, but some of them still are. And we don’t know why.
But we’ll fix it tomorrow. We made good strides and really only have some buttoning up to do. And it’s not officially due until Tuesday! Hooray!
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