Phew.. I haven't updated this blog as often as I'd hoped when I first started it.
Summer has just ended and I am four months into my final co-op term and everything seems to be taking its course... It was a slow first 3 months to be honest but I'm finally doing real dev work for real software in the real world! It really is an amazing feeling! :) I just recently developed a feature for the company's software and wrote (am still working on actually) the tests. I've never really worked on such a large project before with so many solutions to manage and build. I one day that a lot of the work of a developer entails building large projects, debugging, and managing files*** I cannot stress enough how much time put into managing files properly... I guess this was all because I was relatively new to subversion. I've only used it for a couple of semesters in school... At work there are much more clear and strict guidelines to how we should check out our projects and merge in our changes. I am certainly learning a lot!!
This week was also the start of the fall semester for some of my friends still in school... It feels like I'm still on vacation (technically I didn't really have one since I was working full time the whole four months of summer). I feel like I'm not spending my time productively enough after work when I get home. So today I got off my bum, and looked at a few of the free online courses that are offered by Standford et al.
*drumroll please* I will be working on the web development course cs 253 offered by udacity!! I've always been interested in web dev, and this will certainly be a great way to start. I plan to work on the assignments and homework throughout the span of the next four months before I start school again next year January! By writing it down here I hope I'll be able to hold myself accountable and finish at least 2 units a week. Possibly write a few thoughts down here if I feel like it. Looks like we'll be developing a web application focusing more on server side stuff in this course. Also a plus, we will be using google web app engine which I have some experience with in my cs 310 course just this year's January. (I'll write about that later..)
CIAO!
