Angular is not my friend. What really sticks in my craw is how obtuse the error messages are. Everything we've covered up until now I've gotten locked up tight, and when I trip over something, I've gotten pretty good at debugging. Angular has just opened up a whole new dimension of things that can go wrong. Before I just had to worry over whether my code was working but now I have to consider whether the issue is in my code, or on my view, or how my view is bound to my code, or how the new AJAX calls are interacting with the database...
Oh well, I'm just complaining cause Angular gave me a headache today. Also, part of the problem is I can't recognize how useful it could potentially be at this point. We kind of got sold on Angular with promises that it would cut down on the code we had to write, but really it seems like the juggling of all these views negates any coding time saved. I guess the real benefit is the ability to exchange views without refreshing the page, but I'm not dealing with anything that would necessitate bandwidth budgeting, so the virtues of Angular remain to be seen by me.
A couple things have me excited though. There's an Azure event of some kind this Saturday that we were informed of this week. A few people at Coder Camps will be attending. I signed up for a space, and though know I'm worn down enough the thought of giving up my Saturday morning seems a little daunting, it would be the first industry sort of event I have attended. Before Coder Camps, I've never been around more than a couple people at a time that know anything any programming. I'm just kind of looking forward to immersing myself in the culture.
Also, I started working on some problems on Coder Bytes. I've tried programming exercises before but now I have a much better grasp of the vernacular and flow of operations, I actually made some pretty good progress during my lunch break. It's a really satisfying feeling to chew over a question of logic and see your solution work out!
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