A newbie experience with a web application

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These last four weeks have been challenging. Learning from zero how to be part of a real work team and learning React. Which was difficult, but not impossible. I went through rough days of being in front of the computer the whole day searching and studying and still not being able to solve the problem I had. But, the key was working as a team and with a lot of communication. I had the trust of going with my team for help and fix it together. I felt multiple times, but i got back on my feet and kept pushing harder.

You need to fail to get to success -Nassim Taleb

When I was having these blockers of not being able to fix something as fast as I wanted, I started lowing my expectations of what I was able to contribute to do not feel like I was failing to my team or myself. Big mistake to do that, after I realized I was taking the wrong path I started changing my game plan and elevating my expectations. The trick was trying to maintain optimism and realism.

Low expectations don’t mean not getting disappointed when good things happen. -Tali Sharot

Once I set these new goals and a new mindset, I started understanding the way of working as a team and how important is to have the organization with every single task related to the project. We made a board on Asana with all the tasks divided between front-end and back-end and we were taking new tasks as the old ones were completed. We mapped everything we needed to do and due dates. Of course, we had some problems and blockers but having this organization helped to get back on our feet. Also, we started the project by implementing continuous integration. It was one of the best decisions we could have done.

Checklists are tools to make experts better -Atul Gawande

“Anything fragile eventually breaks and, anything robust would survive.”
-Nassim Nicholas

To conclude this post I want to emphasize how doing pair programming helped me. I am so thankful for the people I had the opportunity to share this experience with because every each of them left me an apprenticeship, both technical and personal.