{"id":39,"date":"2025-03-06T04:31:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T04:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/dramainthedebug\/?p=39"},"modified":"2025-03-06T04:31:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T04:31:23","slug":"debugging-doubts-building-confidence-one-bug-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/dramainthedebug\/2025\/03\/06\/debugging-doubts-building-confidence-one-bug-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Debugging Doubts: Building Confidence One Bug at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>1. What was the most difficult challenge, and how did you solve it?<\/strong><br>The hardest challenge so far has definitely been learning React Native. Figuring out a whole new development framework on my own has been a mix of frustrating and rewarding. But having tools like Expo Go has made things a lot easier, and thankfully, there are so many free resources and tutorials online that have helped me piece things together. It\u2019s been a steep learning curve, but seeing my app come to life has made it all worth it!<br><br><strong>2. Did you initially have doubts about your ability to complete the project? How do you feel now?<\/strong><br>100%. At the start, I was nervous about building an app completely from scratch. I wasn\u2019t sure if I could actually pull it off. But as I started working on it, I realized how much my past courses had prepared me in different ways\u2014everything started clicking, and it felt like all my knowledge was finally coming together. Now that I\u2019ve done it, I feel so much more confident in my ability to build an application from the ground up. It\u2019s proof to myself that I can do this.<br><br><strong>3. How have you handled getting &#8216;stuck&#8217; on the project?<\/strong><br>Anytime I get stuck (aka having some drama in the debug), I\u2019ve learned that the best thing to do is just step away. I walk away from my screen, take a break, and let my brain reset. And honestly, most of the time, I figure out the solution when I\u2019m not actively thinking about it. My go-to way to unwind has been watching movies and shows\u2014recently, I\u2019ve watched <em>Lady Bird<\/em> (2017), <em>Priscilla<\/em> (2023), and <em>Mustang <\/em>(2015). And of course, my ultimate comfort show (now and forever) Gilmore Girls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. What was the most difficult challenge, and how did you solve it?The hardest challenge so far has definitely been learning React Native. Figuring out a whole new development framework on my own has been a mix of frustrating and rewarding. But having tools like Expo Go has made things a lot easier, and thankfully, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14504,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/dramainthedebug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/dramainthedebug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/dramainthedebug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/dramainthedebug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/dramainthedebug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/dramainthedebug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/dramainthedebug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/dramainthedebug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/dramainthedebug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/dramainthedebug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}