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dragonyphoenix) wrote2021-11-17 06:52 pm
dragonyphoenix) wrote2021-11-17 06:52 pm
undeserved praise
Recently finished a hackathon, my second. We tried to take on too much and one of the team spent all her time learning authorization and didn't implement the SQL. As we were running out of time, her code wasn't implemented. And I don't have a problem with that. My first hackathon, I didn't contribute either.
We ended up having a great intro/about page and displayed data from an API to give a feel for the functionality we were working towards. As this hackathon included newbies (the promoting organization teaches coding), they wanted to say something nice about every project. So they have us a shout out for our data model. They didn't realize it came from an API. I'm feeling embarrassed about getting praise when none was really due but I also understand they want everyone to feel good.
So the point of this goes back to the team member and her SQL tables. When she was showing her layout, I could see she didn't know anything about data normalization. I'm not going to explain that here for non-developers, but it's crucial to good database design. When I pointed out an issue with her design, she got pretty flustered which is why I think she doesn't know what normalization is. However, she made a post about our acclaim - excellent data model - and worded the post so it looked like that praise referred to her SQL.
Basically her design was terrible and she took praise for something else and made it look like that praise was for her really bad design. Ouch! So much ouch.
I know that she doesn't know her design is bad. But still, she knew that praise had nothing to do with her design and made that post.
I'm just sitting here with my jaw dropped to the floor.
We ended up having a great intro/about page and displayed data from an API to give a feel for the functionality we were working towards. As this hackathon included newbies (the promoting organization teaches coding), they wanted to say something nice about every project. So they have us a shout out for our data model. They didn't realize it came from an API. I'm feeling embarrassed about getting praise when none was really due but I also understand they want everyone to feel good.
So the point of this goes back to the team member and her SQL tables. When she was showing her layout, I could see she didn't know anything about data normalization. I'm not going to explain that here for non-developers, but it's crucial to good database design. When I pointed out an issue with her design, she got pretty flustered which is why I think she doesn't know what normalization is. However, she made a post about our acclaim - excellent data model - and worded the post so it looked like that praise referred to her SQL.
Basically her design was terrible and she took praise for something else and made it look like that praise was for her really bad design. Ouch! So much ouch.
I know that she doesn't know her design is bad. But still, she knew that praise had nothing to do with her design and made that post.
I'm just sitting here with my jaw dropped to the floor.