Wrap Up

This will be my last post for this blog. I started out wanting to make a blog for everyday while we were in class because nobody else had done this before. I wanted to give insight to future students who searched around the web for information about the school, but couldn't find any info from past students. Though it was a struggle to write a post every night @ around 1130pm, I am glad I did it.

The amount of knowledge I acquired in the last 10 weeks and the stuff I can do now, compared to before is remarkable. Especially trying to learn Ruby on Rails. I don't think I would have been able to piece it together and how the "magic" works by myself. Just getting Rails installed and running on your computer is a challenge in itself. Rails is probably my favorite language now because of all of the different scripts you get to use. Plus, you get to use the command line. Along with Rails, I am now proficient in HTML/CSS, jQuery, Ajax, Databases (MySQL & SQLite), PHP, and Ruby. Though I still need to work on all of them, it is nothing that I can't figure out for myself or look up on stackoverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/). <= Had to throw at least one link in here for old times sake. I mean, let's be honest, I did not even really know how to use a <div> correctly before I started this class.

Here are my hours and productivity chart for last week and the last 3 months. I managed to do 59 hours in basically 4 days. This goes to show how much more time you spend on things when the clock is ticking. By that, I mean, I only had 5 or so days to figure everything out--before we "graduated".

Here are my total hours for December (left), November, & October. In total I put in about 535 hours on the computer. That is actual time with movement (doesn't account for reading code, documentation, & looking for hours to find that one error). In total, I think I took 3 days off from actually going to class. Those were all on Sundays and I still ended up coding the whole day anyway. So, basically, I did not take a day off at all since starting school. You really can't take any days off though because of the amount of stuff that needs to be learned and with everything always changing. You need to stay on top of things. Below are months November and December.

Here is my total count on Sublime text editor for the duration of my time. It ended up being a little over 136 hours. I guess I would of thought it to be more, but the magic of Rails allows you to use little lines of code.





Now that I am done, I need to finish my two projects and build my website. I don't even know how long it will take me to finish the Facebook one because I kind of have to redo the whole thing using objects. I hope to be done within the next month and then fly back to sunny California.

(see how how referenced the title of my blog in my last sentence?)

- Kyle