When slapping together a program based on other people’s work, what is the best process? Any business focused application is likely to need accounting software. If your application doesn’t handle it, you may need to interface with something like QuickBooks or Freshbooks. They each have their own data structure and any transfer to them must be adequately met by whatever feature you choose to add.
Per usual, the amount of work that goes into a portfolio project isn’t overwhelming so much as the amount of planning and testing that needs to go into it. I had a pretty solid idea and got through the majority of coding in two days (not including a restart at the behest of someone much wiser than me), but every hiccup I ran into afterwards took some though and the integration of previously acquired knowledge to solve. Reading back didn’t always help, either.
Sinatra has been causing me a lot of trouble. For various reasons I haven’t been able to properly import a table , or a method wasn’t calling the proper page, or any of a half-dozen other issues. However, each problem has been an opportunity to further refine my voice and understand what steps need to be taken to properly execute the code.
I just spent roughly a week away from my daily lessons and labs, and let me tell you that’s a difficult thing to come back to after spending nearly every day of the past 3 months working on them.
Imagine for a moment if you were a single cell and needed to find an efficient method of absorbing nutrients. You could absorb them directly from the environment across your plasma membrane. Hey! It works, problem solved.