While tutorials and websites make running their apps and programs easy to do, it’s harder to weld two different projects together. One of my groupmates did a great job setting up a super bare-bones entry page for our application and walked us through a bit of it – very lucky to have him guide us. I decided to take on the role of hosting things on Heroku to back up a teammate who was looking into it. While the Heroku tutorial was easy to set up and get running, which gave me confidence, the problem came when I tried to combine this with our project. It was not nearly as easy with my current knowledge. I was able to walk through and combine multiple ideas from multiple sources to make progress and was about halfway through possible solutions when my teammate solved things himself. Bittersweet.

I was happy to learn a lot more about Heroku and gained trust that I have the persistence and resourcefulness to think of multiple avenues to fix things, that I have the patience to pick the hardest approaches that help me learn the most, but I’ll have to fine-tune my ability to bounce around from hard to easy solutions.

Until next time dedicated reader.