My experience with 42Wolfsburg during the remote Piscine — Day 07
Day 07
This is the official start of a new stage of life. Are we born to code?
It’s 10 pm right now. We started coding 12 hours ago. I think I was getting through pretty good as I had some minor experience with Shell. Yes, the first exercises are about Shell.
What was surprising for me was that you can access different types of exercises. I thought that you can only access one set per day but that was wrong. You can choose on what you wanna work. I started with Shell00 which contained 9 exercises. I managed to get through it and signed up for peer evaluation. The first one was at 7 pm and I think I defended my code pretty good. The next one will be tomorrow morning. Only after that the 42 machine will evaluate me. Some peers have gone through it an d most of them failed. I expect me to have 0 points as well. Luckily we can try again.
I asked a lot stuff and tried to answer a lot of questions from peers. I feel a little bit exhausted and I have some kind of headache. Seems normal as everyone is complaining about that.
I did take a break from time to time and grabbed some healthy food. Every time when I got stuck I panicked a little bit but you need to calm down and ask for help. I started working on the Shell01 tasks but skipped the first exercise as I didn’t understand it. Now I’m somewhere trying to figure out how to prompt MAC addresses.
Everyone is doing the exercises. There are people which already finished Shell01 but there are also people which are stuck on the first exercises. If you have never programmed before this seems pretty normal. WolfPACK just told us that the advantage of prior programming will be gone after the third day. I think they’re right.
I will continue working until 11 pm or midnight and stop it then as my next evaluation is at 8 am.
We had a community meeting at 5 pm. Don’t expect that staff will help you. They will only answer technical question.
Tips for Day 07
- Stuck? Ask your peers
- Take breaks
- Google is your friend
