It was interesting to me, that Project 3 took me almost a month from course start to submission, and yet Project 4 was only a few days from start to finish. I did have a lot more creative license with Project 3 - after all, it was a game that we could customize to our creative desire - but Project 4 was more like a project I would do in my everyday job.
Learning some new tools (Grunt, gulp, etc) was eye-opening, as well as getting to work with Google PageSpeed Insights, but it was actually pretty straightforward for me. My day job is to support existing applications within AT&T, and some of what we do is to look for problems and address them as best we can. Usually our issues are back end ones, though, so this was a nice change of pace.
I didn't actually use the automated tools for my project. Although I know it may have sped up the ability to get this project done, it also felt to me as if I was letting the tools do the work, rather than doing it myself and learning more hands-on. As long as I understood it in the end, it may not have mattered, but I wanted to know that I did the work myself, not some script.
I don't expect to get the "exceeds" rating this time around, as it requires use of those tools (and one page I barely got over the required PageSpeed score). I'm not as worried about it, since I would rather put the time toward the creative projects.
I'm still waiting on the response on Project 3, but I know the evaluators are swamped with last minute submissions, and they only have until Christmas to get those back to the students. I really want to know what the coaches (and especially Mike and Miriam) thought of the game.
Learning some new tools (Grunt, gulp, etc) was eye-opening, as well as getting to work with Google PageSpeed Insights, but it was actually pretty straightforward for me. My day job is to support existing applications within AT&T, and some of what we do is to look for problems and address them as best we can. Usually our issues are back end ones, though, so this was a nice change of pace.
I didn't actually use the automated tools for my project. Although I know it may have sped up the ability to get this project done, it also felt to me as if I was letting the tools do the work, rather than doing it myself and learning more hands-on. As long as I understood it in the end, it may not have mattered, but I wanted to know that I did the work myself, not some script.
I don't expect to get the "exceeds" rating this time around, as it requires use of those tools (and one page I barely got over the required PageSpeed score). I'm not as worried about it, since I would rather put the time toward the creative projects.
I'm still waiting on the response on Project 3, but I know the evaluators are swamped with last minute submissions, and they only have until Christmas to get those back to the students. I really want to know what the coaches (and especially Mike and Miriam) thought of the game.
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