Writing a Problem-Solving To Do List Again

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Writing a Problem-Solving To Do List Again

After many many months the day of my holiday has finally arrived. Hooray! I am feeling much much better. I am going to have to take it easy but I am fine with that. I got told that it was “well-deserved”. Hooray! So before I go I would like to write up one more time what I think that my next steps are for improving my problem solving skills.

Because more and more ideas just keep on coming into my head
  • I need to ingrain a couple of ideas into my head. Think along the lines of my blog post last night “given input x, what are the steps necessary to return output y?” This needs to become second nature to me. Kind of like playing the piano - I don’t even have to think about it anymore. I just play 
  • The other idea I have to ingrain in my head was around those three questions that changed my life.
So: 
  1. What do I want this thing to do?
  2. What is it doing?
  3. What do I wanna TEST? Because your test is framed around what you want it to DO
BECAUSE ONE THING I HAVE VOWED TO DO IS TO THINK ALGORITHMICALLY. And I’m ashamed to say this but I’m still struggling to understand a bit what this means.
  • I need to ingrain the idea around testing - here is another great quote:
  • “Because, finding ways to test the code; basically when you think about HOW YOU’RE GONNA TEST IT and WHAT YOU WANT IT TO DO it tends to make you re-evaluate how you have written the code!!!”.

WHAT YOU WANT IT TO DO
WHAT YOU WANT IT TO DO
THAT’S THE KEYWORD HERE
IT’S SO OBVIOUS
Isn’t it so obvious? I just have to think about: what do I want it to do? What do I want it to do? What do I want it to do?

And so… my to do list is this:

  • I actually think I want to watch through my call with my boss one more time where he talks about how to test a function
  • I still need to watch our call back where he talks about taking a problem and dividing it into smaller chunks. I need this function and then three functions inside it that do this this and this. The problem is that the call is 45 minutes. And there is lots to write down as well. I’m gonna need a Saturday morning for this. Maybe in the library? With a nice hot cup of tea from bird and blend? Maybe the first one of December?
  • Really go through my previous blog posts and try and synthesise them… OMG I FORGOT ABOUT THE TWO VERY VERY IMPORTANT ONES BASED ON A CHAT WITH MY BOSS BEFORE…
  • They are the two ones named after two consecutive lines from the Lana del Rey song bartender… I absolutely must find them!!!! I ABSOLUTELY MUST!
  • I just really want to consolidate the points in all of the blog posts, and to process them and understand them, but ESPECIALLY THE QUOTES THAT I HAVE HIGHLIGHTED ABOVE.
A crystal background. A diamond heart. Text reads: problem solving. Next steps.





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