WDI Week 10

The final week of lessons is upon us and we are thinking about our final projects. It has been an intense 9 and a bit weeks so far, and although waking up and not going to GA feels like a completely foreign concept, we only have three more weeks of that schedule.

Last week Angular was the dream. I wish I had known about it earlier, yesterday we covered 'High Voltage' which was a great tool to reduce the length of the process required to get a new static page in a site. You could just add the page in and it facilitates the routing and you don't need to build a controller. Great gem! I think I'll be using it again in the future :) We also covered 'Prawn' in the afternoon, a gem to convert pages into PDF files, handy when allowing users to download information or print pages and responsive design with media queries in the morning, although technically it was my second time doing that as it was covered on the FEWD course.

Yesterday evening we had to lend some serious thought to our final projects, the initial planning of our projects was usually a process consisting of us coming up with awesome ideas that are really complex and impressive, then being reminded of the allocated time frame and having to reign in our ambition a little. This process was noticeably more serious as this was the first time we had to completely come up with an app of our own, apart from Hackathon, and compared to that a lot more was riding on this as our final projects are the biggest thing we can bring to the table for our Meet and Greet in January. You could almost see the gears turning as everyone bounced ideas off each other.

This course has made me realise that I am a very visual person when it comes to planning and talking about databases and user journeys is so much easier when I have sketched it out.

I am looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with, and I am also looking forward to having seen a (relatively?) original project from the conceptual stage to it being on-line.