Major Activities of the Day: Recently, Flatiron has been tracking our progress with an app they created to check whether each project has been submitted, and is passing its RSpec tests. So today we were told to begin by working on a bunch of old labs and cleaning them up to make sure they're registering as passed. (They're already automatically tested by Travis, but the Flatiron progress app collects the data and lets us see what's happening as well.)
We moved on to a lecture where Avi went through last night's homework and showed us how it's done. We did a lot more with forms today.
In the middle of lecture, we broke for a really cool 2-hour improv workshop by Drew Tarvin, where we used improv-y exercises to learn about social skills in the workplace. The thing that stuck with me most was one exercise where we had to go back and forth with a partner talking about an idea for a school activity. In the first round, each sentence had to start with "Yes, but..." whereas in the second round, each sentence had to start with "Yes, and..." It was interesting how the latter generated really cool ideas, while the former just sort of went in circles. The point was that "Yes, but..." is a good way to graciously reject an idea, but "Yes, and..." is usually better if you want to accept that it's a good idea but push it in a somewhat different directions.
To round out the day, we did two exercises putting together Rails forms. It was good practice, and I like how it really compartmentalized a particular part of the Rails stack so we could focus on it without being overwhelmed by all the tools and intricacies of Rails.
Skills developed: Forms in Rails, soft skills in the workplace
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