I've always appreciated the past time of an afternoon or evening at the local bowling alley. Locals of all ages gather to hang out at the bowling alley to throw on a pair of ugly shoes and spend a few hours with their friends.
I have a few friends who became rather serious about bowling however, and spend a lot of their time traveling around to different tournaments to bowl against other teams and meet people from all over the place. So I thought it would be cool to create a place where teams can check out local tournaments in their area, and also post about different tournaments in their area. And so I created 'Let's Go Bowling!'
I started off this project a touch overconfident about what it was going to take to make this project. I told myself I had it down and that, because I had done a lot of the labs well that I didn't have much to worry about.
And then, well, I got lost in the details. When I initially wrote my code, I could log in, I could create and view tournaments, and beyond that, every time I fixed one bug, something broke somewhere else. Routes were out of order, my login was being finicky, I would forget an equal sign that would change everything. A time was had by all.
I learned to get scrappy with how I coded, I learned about how every little detail counts and how it plays into the bigger picture, I learned a lot about why what worked in the labs worked in my code. I learned how to breathe and walk away when I've been staring at code for so long.
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