{"id":826,"date":"2013-11-03T20:44:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T01:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/?p=826"},"modified":"2013-12-27T08:23:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T13:23:13","slug":"dps924-part9-that-wasnt-hard-this-is-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/2013\/11\/03\/dps924-part9-that-wasnt-hard-this-is-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"DPS924 Part9: That wasn&#8217;t hard, this is hard!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of posts ago I talked about how a lab was really hard to do. Good thing it was, it got me ready to do the real work, which was assignment 1.<\/p>\n<p>In this assignment we&#8217;re making a timetable app. Nothing too fancy really, just a couple of layouts backed by data in SQLite. But man, that took a lot of work to finish.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got it done on time, but I was only able to because I started well in advance. Due date was friday. On thursday I spent a few hours on it. On friday I got up at 6 to invigilate a test at 8. Basically all day that day, from 8:00 to 23:30 I&#8217;ve spent labouring on this thing.<\/p>\n<p>In retrospective I don&#8217;t even know why it took this long. There is no rocket science in any of it. The one semi-fancy feature I added (swipe gesture detection) I&#8217;ve done the week before. This was just many cycles like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>identify work to do<\/li>\n<li>find example online or in course notes<\/li>\n<li>think the solution through as much as possible<\/li>\n<li>implement it<\/li>\n<li>test it<\/li>\n<li>fix it<\/li>\n<li>at some point above: fix any cascading effects the changes had<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At no point did I feel that I ran into a dead end, or found any major surprise. I was even pretty confident most of the way that I&#8217;ll be done in time. I took a 2 hour nap in the middle of the day because my brain stopped working, but I was sure I&#8217;d get up and finish the job. It was just long, hard work.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily I am pretty excited about this project (the assignment is hopefully the seed of a greater thing) and I&#8217;m still committed to learning Android this semester. So it was both fun and rewarding. I can&#8217;t wait to get assignment 2 done!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/2013\/10\/17\/dps924-part8-wtf-retarded-android-action-bar\/\">&lt;&lt;Go back to part8<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/2013\/12\/27\/dps924-part10-final-notes\/\">Conitune to part10&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of posts ago I talked about how a lab was really hard to do. Good thing it was, it got me ready to do the real work, which was assignment 1. In this assignment we&#8217;re making a timetable app. Nothing too fancy really, just a couple of layouts backed by data in SQLite. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-andrew","4":"post-826","6":"format-standard","7":"category-safeforseneca"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}