Technical Blog - Problem Solving

Learning Competencies

This blog should strengthen your understanding of:

• Your approach to problem-solving.

Summary

In this sprint, you learned a whole lot about Testing, Problem Solving, Psuedocoding and were able to practice and learn more about JavaScript. That's a lot of work - great effort!

Time Box

Create File

Open the problem-solving.html file you created.

For a reminder on how to do this, check out the Blog Instructions.

Discuss

Tell your non-tech friend a story about a time you:

1. were blocked on a simple problem:

• what was the problem?
• what problem-solving techniques did you use?
• how did you feel throughout the process?
• what did you learn?

2. elegantly solved a problem.

• what was the problem?
• what problem-solving techniques did you use?
• how did you feel throughout the process?
• what did you learn?

3. Reflect on how confident you feel using each of these problem-solving techniques/processes:

• Pseudocode
• Trying something
• Rubber ducky method
• Reading error messages
• Console.logging
• Googling
• Asking your peers for help
• Asking coaches for help
• Improving your process with reflection

4. Reflect on a time you were reluctant to ask for help. Consider what made you reluctant to do so. What might you try differently next time?

Steps:

1. Write your blog post.
2. Add a link to the index page.
3. Share it with your cohort via Discord.