`Day 33` - Created queries in *RBP* & Excel Ou...

# 100daysofkotlin-2021

[Bryan L]

Day 33
• Created queries in RBP & Excel Output (4 seconds total down from 40 minutes..?)
• Finished first two videos of _*

REST API with MVVM and Retrofit2▾

*_ series.
• Listened to Android Leaks Episode - Composed Leek
Self-Comment
• Quite a lot more done than expected today! Successfully queried all records for total counts / date / and checked if missing. Reading both excel sheets, querying Database, and outputting to excel only takes 4 seconds down from 40-60 minutes? Not sure what I did differently to make that possibly besides change up how I made my queries. 4 seconds feels much better, although until I get the desired output, I'm unsure what changes will come about. I'm wavering on completing this project. It's time consuming and feels distracting compared to other projects I could be working on. Friend has been taking his time to help me and feel guilty if I drop it.
• Podcast episode was great, while I'm not sure if anything from it helps me directly, it was nice to learn about the process on building a UI Framework. I do feel like I have a better understanding on what goes on under the hood if only slightly. 2.5 hours flew by, but started losing focus about 1.5 hours in.
• I think I'm going to try sticking to this YouTube course as it looks like it will go in some pretty detailed queries. I will attempt to follow it using Compose instead of the UI Toolkit in the video, but we'll see.
• I may end up on a Podcast in a few weeks talking about what it's like learning Jetpack Compose as a beginner. Plenty to review until then, but excited to see where this goes!
• Also Chicago Roboto is coming up (never heard of it until today). Depending on how the podcast episode goes I may put in a submission to speak for 20 minutes. Conference date isn't until September, but submissions need to be in before May 15th. A month to improve before submitting a proposal and 5 months before the conference. Considering I'm only 4 months in to learning, I'll improve substantially by then.
• p.s. I know what I want to hear, but any advice on point#1 in Self-Comment? It's been a few months on this RBP project with little-to progress. He's been spending time with me in several voice calls going over it trying to help me get real-world experience with an actual project, but my path has been steering more and more towards android full-stack instead of focusing back-end. Should I stick it out and continue splitting my time up, or tell him I want to commit fully to pursing Android Dev and drop the project?
• edit: I should take notes on how JungIn Choi does her Daily Entries. ➕
Goals Tomorrow
1. Work on RBP?
2. Continue _*

REST API with MVVM and Retrofit2▾

*_ #3
3. Review Compose/interop
4. Work on improving Daily Entries. Omitting extra details or putting in thread. Most of it is either imposter syndrome filled thoughts or ideas I never act upon anyways. 😅
5. Would like to do some kind of improvement/commit to Daily Doc (haven't touched since upload)

[Bryan L]

[Bryan L]

Code is still poorly written and doesn't take advantage of Kotlin syntax, but am more worried about a working program than making it idomatic

[JungIn Choi]

Your day seems to be very long, how come you do all these! Applause applause 👏 Ooh what is that chicago roboto ? Is it a conference?

[Bryan L]

The secret is to stare at the screen long enough until things happen and code appears. huehue

As for the podcast and talk, that is a lengthy topic I would gladly dive into when on my laptop to type. To sum up, One of my goals is to contribute by sharing my knowledge to help other developers. Possibly through Blogs, software, talks, tutorials, etc. No actual experience in these yet, but sooner the better, right!

My days are normally long. I usually spend 10-12 hours a day trying to learn. Some days nothing gets through, others I experience an "aha" moment. Still working on how to use that time efficiently. 😆

Chicago Roboto is a conference, yup! This year its online so IF they accept my proposal in speaking(small chance), I won't have to invest in travel costs.

[JungIn Choi]

Cool, Believe you’ll become a great developer, actually already one. Such an honor to watch your progress blob sunglasses Hoping for good results on roboto conference!