What is the hardest thing you’ve ever done?
What is the hardest thing you’ve ever done?
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- During the first day of my last internship, I was assigned the task of understanding the codebase with little help from my supervisor an limited documentations.
- Since I have no prior knowledge to frontend development and the tech stack used by the firm, the learning curve is very steep for me
- Also have limited time to learn and understand the concept and codebase before the hands on experience
- To tackle this task, I firstly learn the basics for frontend development and technology stack used by the firm
- My approach is to beak down the code base in to smaller functional component, create connect between the code and it output (or appearance). When I experience of bottleneck, I will try a bottom up approach, which is to understand the logic of code first, provided a conjecture of what it does, then examine the output to confirm.
- With such strategy, I was able to throughly understand and whole code base to carry out future works.
- Importance o f Analytical and critical thinking abilities is another great strength, since it allows me to approach unfamiliar tasks systematically.