My Road to Code

  TDD - What a difference a week makes! So I'm finding out that CodeClan Instructors are pretty sneaky!  You think you've got everything straight in your head then they throw in something else that you've not seen before!  Today it was Testing.  Lesson learnt, don't let on that you've finished the lab with 40 minutes still to go - you'll get a made up on the spot extension (thanks Hannah!) Yep, go and write some more methods and then write your own code to test them to make sure they work!  Yep, no problem! The second last sentence that I wrote there actually brings me back to the title of this weeks blog.  For my non coding friends TDD stands for Test Driven Development.  What Hannah had actually asked us to do was write the test code first THEN write our methods. Why?  Good question!  And one that I was struggling to get my head round.  Surely I  should write my method first my brain was telling me - THEN check it works?  NO!...

  Day one and Christmas Morning It felt like being an 8 year old on Christmas morning this morning. Too excited to sleep but I wasn’t allowed to get up yet…Well ok, I have 2 kids and 2 dogs to look after so of course I could get up before my alarm and get on with my day but… my Codeclan course didn’t start until 9.30 - it felt like I would have to wait forever to open my presents.. I mean see my classmates! To give you a bit of background, I embarked on this journey in March 2020. I had previously had a career but for the past 5 years I have been mostly a full time mum (to my two kids and also two hairy babies!) interspersed with ‘bits and pieces’ jobs while I tried to figure out “what I want to be when I grown up!’ My partner works in the IT industry so I hear a bit about “our developers are doing this or that” from him and it got me thinking… firstly, this sounds pretty interesting and secondly.. I think I could do that?! So I decided to interrogate him for more information…...