Experience during facebook assignment

The Facebook assignment is over. It was not an easy assignment. To consider that it was only for a mere 15%, it was a lot of work. 3am, 4am was the earliest that we managed to sleep during a few days before the deadline.

However, everyone was motivated and happy. I was motivated and happy. For us, the fact that the assignment is only worth 15% doesn't seem to come into our mind. We were coding, googling (GOOGLE IS GOD!) and discussing among ourselves. Happily. We were stuck sometimes and couldn't seem to find the bugs in our codes. But we keep finding them. In the end, I must say, we have managed to do a good job, at least a very acceptable one provided the time limit of 2 weeks.

A lot of things must be credited to Justin, who is not only a great programmer, but also a good person. He doesn't seem to mind staying out late with us to discuss about the project (His wife kept calling! :P) and skipping his work for the project. He was also our mentor in programming. His programming knowledge gave us a lot of help and belief that it is possible to do it!

Other members were inspiring too! Bernard was always too eager to help and it's just amazing how many contacts he has with those people in real business! Xialin was a very good programmer! She managed to learn ajax in a matter of few hours and came out with a mechanism to upload photos in our application. It was just amazing! Biyan never seemed to be tired. She was so obsessed with flash and how to improve our application's interface. Her newfound knowledge in flash will come in handy in our applications in the final project!

In short, the first assignment was crazy, tiring and challenging! But it was a great experience. For me, the experience is worth doing it even if the assignment is given only 5% weightage!