After we did the Todo App we had a week of calmer. It's more about training and learning. On thursday I had my first Lightning-talk. Around the week I have been working in Hyperskill to develop a project named Cinema Room REST Service.
HyperSkills
This week I strated with Hyperskill. Before, I had done some parts of the Cinema Project. Because I had a blocker with my subscription I cound't continue. When the staff fixed the problem I was too involved with the ToDo application, so I couldn't make big changes in what I had done.
The course it's fun but at the same time, it's slow. I have to read too much. I like reading, but sometimes my eyes feel irritated. I have a tool in Google chrome, to read the text on a website. It has been so helpful.
The take away I have made this week are few details in the theory for Java. I'm going to mention some of them; One is the scanning instance to get data from the terminal when the program is running. I knew it beffore but I didn't know how to use it into while/for/doWhile.
I learned some concepts; the difference between attribute and parameter. It helps to define better when I talk about coding. Also, I learned what defined a type of data in Java. "Characters, long or int, Double or float". In my app TODO I used Long but just because I knew it was for large numbers. Now I know one difference between int and Long is the bytes they can save.
Other cool concept were some character we can use in the code
- '\n'is the newline character
- '\t'is the tab character
- '\r'is the carriage return character
- '\\'is the backslash character itself
- '\''is the single quote mark
- '\"'is the double quote mark
- “\d+” is a character class it matches digits [0-9], and the + matches one or more occurrences of the character before.
I see the last one helpful to make a control-input for numbers.
Lightning-talks
This week the lightning-talks started. They are some talks about a topic that the exponent chooses. The intention is to develop our speaker skills and to have good management of the audience.
I prepared my content about Spring Boot technology. It was a topic I chose because I had some questions about how I would connect all the classes in the App. I took Some time to understand how to use it and why this was a good option for my app. It was a technology completely new to me.
I felt it was a good presentation but I need to improve some mispronunciations and dominate my nervous when something goes differently than the practice.
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