Week 7

Week 7 & I was still plugging away at the exercises from the Learn Ruby the Hard Way tutorial. Exercise 26 provided a piece of code that contained a number of mistakes & required working through it to find the errors and fix them. The idea was to replicate real world scenarios where a programmer is not necessarily writing new code of their own, but instead is faced with code written by someone else that is far from perfect. The frustrating experience of figuring out what was wrong would be replicated again a few weeks later when starting on the Rails project for the Server Side module.

In Client Side, we came across some of the worst-looking websites on the internet. One of our tasks was to try to 'fix' the website of Valley Isle Aquatics, changing the styling to something that we felt suited the nature of the business involved. Again, there was a fair degree of frustration in figuring out someone else's code. I don't think I have an eye for design myself, but I reckon my overhaul at least improves on the original.

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