Goodbye and Good Riddance 2020 (Week 15 @ Encora Academy)
The time for saying goodbye to 2020 has come.
This week at Encora was a little breath from assignments or projects but a great chance to relax a little, be with the family and be thankful for surviving this weird year. I personally take this time to review some basics about computer science, JS, and a git/GitHub course.
I basically started my week reviewing a lot of things but since Wednesday when I had my evaluation interview, I focus on some specific topics.
I dug into some basics about OOP, and its four principles, what S.O.L.I.D. means ( Single responsibility, Open close, Liskov substitution, Interface segregation, and Dependency inversion), and so on. I haven’t really programmed a lot in this paradigm, but I realize that although I didn’t know the concepts themselves, I know how they work since I’ve been working on projects where they use OOP, and it was not unfamiliar to me.
Then I reviewed the life cycle of a product and the life cycle of a bug which basically can be resumed with the following images:
I also took a short course about functional programming in JS, where I learned a lot of new things. I learned about closures, hoisting, the JS scope, currying, higher-order functions.
Finally, the last thing I did this week was to take a course about Git and GitHub course in form. I got a subscription at Platzi, so I took advantage of it.
These past months, I’ve been using it a lot. I started by building my own repositories to have my projects saved. I also cloned other people’s repositories.
Once in Encora, Git and GitHub became a vital tool for my day to day work, so I had to learn them on the way by try and error without really knowing what was going on…
Now that I almost finished the course, I understand branches, how they work, how you solve conflicts, how to merge branches into branches, the good practices, and so on.
Conclusion
This week helped me to realize the things that I need to work on. I actually wrote down a list of topics that I need to give special attention to. I developed a study guide to dive more into algorithms, data structures, agile strategies, and my two stacks that are currently Python and JavaScript.
