I am quite proud of myself. I felt like I was not going to do good because its the fear of the unexpected. It definitely played with the feeling of imposter syndrome.
You know what, I was going to give a very cookie-cutter post about this project but to be honest, I am super proud of myself. I spent a lot of project week not only dealing with imposter syndrome but try to encourage myself to keep going. With everything going on in the world it was tough to figure out the point. When you spend your life watching tv and the only time you see someone who looks like you (a dark skin black man) are on the news, getting shot, getting harassed. It makes you wonder what are you doing this for. I am a target not because of my actions, but because of what I look like. I am proud of this project, because of the mental perseverance it took to get through it. I have found serenity in this thing called code, and I hope you like it!
Going into this I was more prepared then I thought. I started by setting up my environment. Utilizing the example that my cohort lead did during our video. Next, I went into my cli.rb file and this is where things got interesting. I really just started having a usual conversation in pseudocode that I would have with a customer. I also thought of any of the possibilities that would make the project interesting. From there, I was able to start the conversation in code. Of course, there was A LOT of conditionals, which can be overwhelming. At the end is where the work came in. Linking the JSON to the makeup.rb file. Once that was figured out. I could create individual methods to call when a customer is looking for a specific item.
- Emery K