Hack Reactor Week 2 Recap

We kicked off the week by learning about inheritance pattern and how to use it in both pseudoclassical style as well as ES6 style. We had a fun sprint called subclass dance party where we created different subclasses of dancers who perform different actions on the dance floor using HTML, jQuery, and CSS. We then started our sprint on algorithms. This was an interesting sprint where we learn more about visualizing a problem and breaking it down into smaller parts to construct an algorithm that we could implement as code. This complemented the interview challenges/toy problems that we have just started this week and helped me to be able to solve these problems more effectively. We wrapped up the week with a sprint on jQuery and AJAX where we constructed a frontend chat client that would retrieve and send messages to a server and display it in the browser. This is the toughest sprint so far because we have to understand the data structures that we want to store the data on our frontend framework and also the interactions between the client and the user. We learned about the MVC model and how to develop a clear UI.