We did more work today with Node.js. A lot of this consisted of going over various servers and in one instance, copying over one repository and making changes to add a field. This was a bit tougher than it sounds as we had to change a server, a module, scripts, html, and, in my case, the css style sheet to make the added line bold. In time honored tradition, my final run tanked until someone pointed out that I had named the field by one ID name in the html, and by quite another in the scripts. Once that was rectified, everything ran fine.
Our instructor pointed out that this was all closer to reality, where one is often called upon to modify existing code rather than creating brand new jobs.
This does remind me of a time, years ago, when I was a BA on a small project on the only agile team I’ve ever been on that operated in an actual agile manner. That being neither here nor there—we had two absolutely kickass developers on our team. They could figure out how to do just about everything we threw at them. In fact, they are part of the reason I wanted to become a developer again—I always admired their talent. I do remember that even THEY would do a certain amount of duplication/alteration—they referred to it as copying off each other’s homework.
I still sort of feel like we’re really getting off easy this week.
“Our instructor pointed out that this was all closer to reality, where one is often called upon to modify existing code rather than creating brand new jobs”……………..Pam, they said that to me 32 years ago in my mainframe classes…STILL TRUE!!!!!!