Day 3

Day three was easily my most productive day yet. I find that the more I know, the more I can learn the next day. Today I got a much firmer hold on Clojure and solved problems from scratch. Today was also good exposure for test driven development.

First, I had a meeting with Gina where she gave me a full weeks-worth of tasks to do today. The main focus of this week is integrating test driven development into my clojure code. I am still working on assigning myself the right amount of time for these projects, however I was able to get a days worth of work done today so I’m still on track!

The next thing I focused on was the Euler problems I was assigned. This was my first chance to make Clojure code from scratch. It really emphasized the improved grip I have on this language. I am still looking up documentation, but I am starting to become fairly self-sufficient with the language now. The next major area this project gave me practice on is test driven development. For each problem, I would usually make a helper function and then make tests for the helper function and the main function. I feel as though I learned a lot on fully testing my functions to make sure they work in every way possible.

The last thing I did today was take a look at the Clojure Kata I have to perfect this week. By Friday, I am to present my progress on it to everyone else, so I will need to look at this at least once a day until then. Day one I unfortunately misunderstood the instructions and practiced it in Java instead of Clojure, so I’ll have to go back and change that mistake tomorrow. However following the slides and understanding the thought process was still very good conceptual practice. It’ll be all the better taking that knowledge into tomorrow, with more practice and the right language.