Today was our introduction to Asp.Net. Asp stands for Active Server Pages. It makes possible the linking together of many web pages into what one might call an application (or an “app”, if you’re in to the whole brevity thing).
It was complicated but intensely interesting. This is the missing link. The lesson that started today which we will be learning for the next three weeks joins all of the back-end logic we’ve been learning with what actually shows up on the Internet as a web page. It’s pretty exciting when I think about it that way.
The main point of our homework was to learn the workings of taking our code and translating it into a format that a user can view it. But to illustrate the point, we had some old-school logic problems, the likes of which we haven’t seen for weeks.
We were tasked with the Fibonacci Problem, a classic math problem adding a string of letters, each to the last. We first saw Fibonacci and his magical numbers in the third week of the cohort. I spent nearly four hours trying to create a loop to print out the numbers correctly and didn’t get it right until I enlisted Tom’s help.
It took me about forty-five minutes today.
What was practically impossible one month ago is a minor problem today. That’s progress.
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