Day 60

Today ended up being a pretty long day incidentally. My suspicions yesterday about the tic-tac-toe implementation were true. I had a lot of breakdown to do. Fortunately I at least didn’t get stuck on something for too long, it was just a lot of individual steps to get to my desired behavior.

Following the same strategy, I didn’t let the tic-tac-toe program run standalone, it had to have all the necessary extended behavior for my web server. This included generating html pages, and processing POST requests. It was a lot of work, but I did manage to get the whole project completed by the end of the day with tests for tomorrow. I still feel like there’s a lot of room for improvement given my time constraints on this project. I would like the chance to go back and fix those issues I had.

After reflecting on this week. I’ve realized I need to get some clarification on how I might approach estimating a project I don’t fully understand. This project was new for me. In concept, it sounded not too bad. But in reality, I took nearly twice as long on it as I’d estimated. Perhaps it is something I will bring up at IPM tomorrow.