Dateline 8-28-2016

Holy crap, app building can be tedious when you do it correctly. I've been building this Old School Wrestling Quiz app assignment for close to an entire week now. Though I would have been able to knock this out in a day using my old technique of "as long as it works," I'm beginning to see the benefits of adding all this extra effort to make it so that future changes are much more streamlined.

Before I would only work with two or three files, or file types. Any text I needed I wrote right into the code, and color, right into the code, and styling options, right into the code. Now I've learned to create a file for each attribute and linking the info into the code to make it easier to update information throughout the entire app instead having to search the entire code for each instance.

That's the first tedious part. The second part creating code that isn't sloppy which is probably what is taking the most time. Since I am not experienced enough to write code cleanly from scratch, I have to write it how I know it will work first then go back and tidy up.

This clean-up process inevitably leads to error creation. I'll fix one problem only to see that the solution creates a different error and I end up chasing my tail. This actually leads to more efficient coding because most of my problems stem from overwriting as I'm still new to the game and don't really know all the shortcuts.

I'm really hoping to finish this assignment by the end of the day so that I'll have something to share tomorrow.

We'll see if I can pull it off.

Talk to you then,

- The Wicker Breaker