Today was soooooooo much better than yesterday. Andrew had helped me out and although I didn’t completely understand what he did I knew I would be able to look it over and figure it out. I got to UA early and got right to work looking over the documentation so I could figure out what I would need to add in for examples.
I spent most of my time before lunch reading stuff over and writing some documentation and examples. I needed to have Adam look over my code to see if he liked the format it was in but I hadn’t seen him around and he wasn’t on Slack.
Lunch was catered today. It was a taco bar from somewhere delicious and I ate far too much food! It was totally worth it though. After lunch Amanda asked Helen to come and show us how she does function diagrams. I’m not sure that’s what she calls them exactly but that kind of idea. She used a simple push as an example and we stepped through all of the classes and methods that the function call touched so we could follow the path. It made complete sense and I was glad to know I did already understand how that worked.
After lunch I saw Adam online and asked him to come see me when he had time. I read all kinds of stuff about python decorators, classes and methods until Adam came and looked at the code. He gave me some suggestions and showed me some things to change. I made his changes but stuff was broken so I worked on things the best I could and got closer and closer but things were still not working quite right. I’d ask Andrew to look it over later.
Robert was downtown and waiting for me so we could go to Teavana. Starbucks owns it, Robert works for Sarbucks and gets a discount so he offered to go there with me so I could get some stuff. On our walk over to Pioneer Square Mall I realized we were right by the Mozilla office so I asked if Robert wanted to see the space. He did and I was glad because I wanted to say hello to Katt. We wandered upstairs and the office was all decorated for Christmas. We chatted with Katt for a while and she showed us where us OP interns would be sitting. Her parents had sent her a huge box with a bed topper in it and she needed to get it home somehow. Since Wayne was going to come pick up Robert and I, I asked him if he would mind taking her home as well. He’s said he’d be happy to. He’s so good to me and everyone.
The three of us walked over to the mall and I picked out some white earl grey. That was a new one to me! It smells really good. We didn’t stick around there long. I called Wayne to let him know we were on our way back to Mozilla so he could come and get us. We didn’t have to wait too long for him. We dropped Katt off and headed back to our house. Wayne made dinner while Andrew looked at my code, showed me what I was doing wrong, helped me fix it and then sat patiently with me while I talked my way through the whole process of what was happening when I called a particular function. He corrected me when I got confused and explained things I didn’t know and I got all the way through it! And I understand it! That felt amazing and seriously it’s not nearly as complicated as I was making it out to be.
Today I learned that http responses are just bytes that get decoded into strings and then the strings can be parsed into various data structures.