So far I’ve really been enjoying the challenge of figuring out how to fix the bugs/create the features that I have been tasked with. I’ve been finding that it takes about a day for me to really grasp what to do and then once I’m able to figure that out things feel a bit smoother. My mentor (Will Kahn-Greene) and I have a schedule in terms of the time it should take for me to do short, medium, and large bugs. So far I’ve more or less been able to stick to that schedule.

The bug that I’m nearly finished with right now involves writing code that will determine which variation of the thank you page people will be sent to after giving feedback on input.mozilla.org. I had a bit of trouble the first day, but after talking to my Will, looking at documentation, and searching Safari Books it ended up being pretty straight forward. What was nice about this bug is that I was able to tame the discouragement that I was feeling in the beginning and, low and behold, it looks like things worked out. I’m also quickly learning to try not to over think things – that simple solutions do exist.

http://www.adamokoye.com/2015/01/figuring-things-out/