Day 4. Software architecture and our first lines of code

First thing in the morning our mentor Markus gave us a quick overview of software architecture and demonstrated them with some practical code. He made some good points about code reusability being dangerous when the need comes to alter the codebase. And warned against leaving vulnerabilities in your accessible layer.

Our first sprint planning was a joyful endeavour as we were getting so close to starting to write some code and starting to fulfill the plans made for the last 4 days. With some back-and-forth with the client we managed to create 12 user stories. Assigning story points was a fun and slightly odd experience as during the first sprint planning meeting the story points value is still wildly inaccurate. In the end we decided to take 10 user stories into our first sprint.

After some confusion about splitting up the user stories we managed to get our first stories and tasks on the scrum board. This meant we could take a task and start developement! Right? Well almost, we still had to create the underlying data model. So we split into teams and half of us started work on the view and half of us on the model. It was strange working with multiple people on the same problem as there was more explaining and questions, time will tell what will come of this.

In the evening we had a pub event with our bootcamp team. So this was us arriving there.

We filled out 3 tables in a cozy bar called Kivi Paber Käärid. The mood was relaxed and it was nice to chat to the employees of Helmes without the subject being about the bootcamp. We taught our foreign teammates some Estonian classics such as counting to 12, teaching them how to pick up girls. All in all a great evening!