This has been one of those days where time just got away from me. It all started this morning when I took my morning walk, and mysteriously my usual 30-minute walk took 37 minutes. Then, inexplicably, my usual shower routine took 15 minutes longer than usual. I managed to get to class on time, but I was worn out before the day had even begun.
Our class day whizzed by as we all frantically tried to complete our Friday projects. Our assignment this time was to create a website for a small Alaskan town to provide information on the town, create a registration page for the one hotel, and create a page to rent a car at the one car rental place. I chose to use a lifeline and texted our friend Roy, whom I knew once visited Alaska and who might have some pictures I could use for the site. He couldn’t find them in time, but suggested I just google the town he stayed at for pictures. In the category of there are no coincidences, both he and our instructor had visited the SAME small Alaskan town!
The JavaScript coding was an ugly business. The hotel registration site was horrendous. There was a lot of crazy logic for discounts, free breakfasts for seniors, drop-downs, radio buttons, checkboxes, and validations for number of people to a room, etc. For the life of me, I just could NOT figure out how to give seniors their breakfast for free! The fact that many of my best friends and my spouse fall into this category is especially ironic. The great thing was that our instructor showed me how to use the debugger—I discovered that my code was finding the first match for breakfast, and just dropping out of the function with that value. She explained I needed to put the most restrictive option first. Oddly, this STILL didn’t work. I FINALLY got what I wanted by saying if you checked off “breakfast” and you WEREN’T a senior, then calculate the charge for you and your little tots. Else, the meal was free.
I didn’t get to the “tours” page, but I do remember our instructor saying that they’d rather have the required pages set, rather than a half-assed job on those and the the extra-credit one. I may spend Saturday adding some more illustrations to the pages I did complete before the 5 pm deadline.
By the end of my Friday, I was in a coma. To give you an idea about the level of my exhaustion, I drove home, turned off the engine, and almost fell asleep in the car in the garage.
I wonder why the class is writing programs for anything BUT insurance!
I’m not sure! I think right now the idea is to get us used to the different concepts. These Friday projects basically encompass all that we’ve learned over the course of the week.