1. An Overview of Things Learned
- Technical Area: learned about Discourse, open source forums such as git and Ruby, learned about Ember,js
- Tools: Discourse, Github, Ruby, command-line tools,Ember.JS
- Soft Skills: Learned to communicate with teams about the project.
2. Achievement Highlights
- I was able to successfully download Discourse and ensure that it ran properly
- From videos and articles, I was able to teach myself some Ruby-syntax
- I familiarized myself with the new format for the full stack pathway as well as the plan for the upcoming weeks
3. Challenges
- Initially, I ran into the error messaging downloading discourse via terminal, but was able to solve using stack-overflow.
- It was un-clear of where i get all the resources so I was struggling to start early on the project, but one of the teammate guided me when I reached out to him.
4. Goals For Module 2
- To gain a deeper understanding of Ruby and rails
- To learn to use Github in the context of a team (merge, pull, branches)
- Learn to leverage the DOM inspector to supercharge the theme development process