Well here we are; somehow it’s already almost the end of the course. Let’s ruminate on how it went, shall we?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Discuss your biggest success during the course. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n My group’s project is a data visualization client for an industry sponsor, and I am one of the members who has been working on data mapping. My biggest success has to be when I was first able to shelve the dummy data I’d been working with and get live server data to render dynamically, colored and styled appropriately for a heat map. Not a success of one by any means — our team is larger than I think most in this course tend to be, and I wasn’t the one doing most of the work to hook up the pipes — and not the only time I punched the air in triumph after a few hours muttering angrily at devtools and adding a new console.log. But getting server data to display in beautiful, semi-random blobs had me punching the air the highest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What was your breakthrough, and why did it matter? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n They were mostly small breakthroughs piled together, and I think that’s a nice lesson to apply to development work going forward. One was realizing that I could re-map data to the correct format extremely easily after a week or so of thinking it needed to be done on the server-side or through a separate library. Another was realizing I had been trying to use a string like a json without having first unpacked it (when I said small breakthroughs, I meant small and kind of embarrassing).<\/p>\n\n\n\n What did you learn, about the technology, and also about yourself?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I guess all together the small breakthroughs forced me to practice walking through and explaining to myself what I’d written, what was happening in localhost:3000, what I expected to happen in localhost:3000, and why the two were different. It’s easy to get lost conflating ‘what I think I wrote’ and ‘what I actually wrote’, for me at least, and I enjoy the reminder to recenter. Also, now I want to make maps of everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well here we are; somehow it’s already almost the end of the course. Let’s ruminate on how it went, shall we? Discuss your biggest success during the course. My group’s project is a data visualization client for an industry sponsor, and I am one of the members who has been working on data mapping. My […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13680,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cs-467"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/liumar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/liumar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/liumar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/liumar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/liumar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/liumar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/liumar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/liumar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/liumar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/liumar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}