Taking better decisions and robotic course

Before I start talking about my  last two weeks, I like to say that this blog is going to be short because I was out almost one week. On, Friday, the day that I was out, I was preparing for a exam of my course of languages, because the exam wasn't going to be presencial . But the teacher never send the exam until saturday. Deep inside I knew that the teacher wasn’t going to send the exam on Friday. Cardoce thought the same that me, and he suggest that I came to Pernix and if the teacher uploaded the exam we could work on it together.

If I would have come to Pernix I could have advance my swift training, and also began to work on Wappo earlier.

The next week I went to a robotic course, thanks to Pernix that gave me this opportunity. I had take a course of this type before, but it was orientate to the design of the structure with NXT. But now it was about of software. At the first part of the course we design a little robot like a car, on this part I had some troubles because I am terrible at welding. The second part was theoretical, on this part the teacher (Named Tomas) explained that the robots have to identify, plan and act. Also that there are three models of robots hierarchical, reactive and intelligent. The last part of the lesson was making a robot that could find the light with the three kinds of models.

I think that this course is wondering, and it gave news knowledges about the robotic world. This was a excellent opportunity and now I need to prepare me to share knowledges with others

To remember for the next opportunity...

Last monday I was very nervous, I knew that I had made a serious mistake. Anyway, I began a training because it had been a while since I did one. The training was about Angular (Only Pernix Employee can see the link). The first chapter was a bit boring because it only explained how to install Angular and the typical 'Hello World'. I also got some information about Angular on the internet, and I discovered that Angular 2 exists. It’s structure is very similar to rails, but the model code could be written in different languages like Typescript and JavaScript.

I had a meeting with Cardoce, Carlos and Jesus. At this meeting, they give me a retrospective about my work on Asap, they told to me that I need to improve my soft skills.I feel like sometimes I worried about how was Tristan felling with the constant emails, so I only notify him when I had a breakthrough. Also I think that I should ask for more help, some features took me a lot of time. Another problem was that the project structure was wrong modularize, because I did not thought about futures features. Because of this I must show my ideas to someone before begin to write code.

After this Carlos told me I could continue working into Asap, but "In the shadows", at that moment Jesus become the project leader.

Next Monday I was helping Jesus organizing the project, but without writing code. Also this day I continue the angular tutorial, but this time I created an app on my computer, then I set the environment. When I finished this, I was really happy because I did it fast. I remember when I installed ruby, it was really difficult for me because was my first time using the console. I remember that the last time I was feeling insecure, but now I am confident in what I’m doing

The next day on Pernix, I continue with Asap, Jesus showed me the new design of the project, this new design was better than mine. I did a refactor on my part of the project. I came Thursday afternoon to Pernix because this was the day I could do pairing with Jesus. He explained some parts about his design that I could not understand. Also he told me that we could used the gem riif, I was surprised because I thought that it was not possible. At the beginning I didn’t believed  Jesus, but he told me something very important, that he has more experience than me and I needed believe in him. Another thing to remember is that I have to  change my way of talking, because I commonly use words like try and hope, but this words don’t  help me to be a proactive person instead of a passive person.

Finally this week Cardoce review my blog, and he told me all my mistakes in spelling on the first paragraph, but I did not took note about that, and now I can’t remember the corrections. I need to solve this kind of problems, and take note of the people say.

For next week I asked Sirias for a new project, because I had some free time. I decided to help on the project of budget dashboard in angular, because I went to practice the learned in the last week. Thanks to Escobar I understood the new project.

If I really want to be service employee, I need to work hard on my soft skills and pay more attention with the retrospectives. Also I need to do more pair programing, and not try “to discover hot water” without help.