They took it easy on us today.
Instead of the normal lecture, both classes converged in the main room and Java Tom (as opposed to .NET Tom) taught us about a testing framework called Selenium. It was a nice change of pace and useful information, as PNC Bank uses Selenium in their coding and likes their new hires to have some experience in it.
There was no homework on the Selenium lecture, so I instead spent the afternoon boning up on CSS Grid and trying to do something about my abysmal front-end skills. I walked through a tutorial on Free Code Camp explaining the subject and, surprisingly enough, I got better quickly. I was able to skip back a few lessons and straighten out a product page on the homework that I was previously unable to herd into a sensible layout. Too late to improve my grade on it, but still, I know how to do it now.
Then, around 4, we started drinking.
It is our halfway happy hour (though we are a bit more than halfway). It was once again at a bar called Beirs around the corner from the TE building. They bought us apps and invited all of the former graduates to come and hang out. I talked to a few of them. One TE grad who is now working at FedEx showed me this keyboard with a new layout called Dvorak. It’s crazy. All of the vowels are in the left-hand corner in a line. He says it makes you type faster once you get used to it. It sort of blew my mind. I might try it.
I also talked to a TE grad named Tek, who is now working with the consulting company CGI. He had some really interesting things to say about the pace and the on-boarding with that company. I was already interested in working there, but his opinions shot it further up my wish list.
All in all, a good night and a good end to the hardest of weeks.
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