w1d2

Phew! Day 2 flew by pretty quick! We didn’t cover anything that was really new, but the exercises certainly felt a bit more challenging than yesterday. The day was filled with minor victories as we stumbled through some of the problems, being notably tripped up by the dreaded “pass by reference” a couple of times.

Ultimately we were able to figure out working solutions to all of our exercises and felt pretty good about them. Later, upon seeing the solutions, I can see quite a few areas where we could have improved our code and streamlined it. Most glaringly, I need to get better at using helper methods to get the job done. I’m sure part of that will be going back in to refactor our code once it’s written, but it’s still something i’m going to play closer attention to going forward.