Last Day of the Semester

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Today was my last day at my internship which is kind of sad, but I am hoping to go back to the Flatiron School next semester. When I got to my internship today, I started to work on my code and I ended up breaking it. "Welp, here we go again," I thought to myself. I broke my collision with the bird. Also, my character wasn't moving. This is all apart of coding. You break your code and then you try and fix it, and then you break it again. A pattern starts to form that keeps on happening. My first approach was trying to figure it out myself by going through the errors on the console, but I couldn't figure it out. I then looked at my GitHub account which is where I can commit my code. Basically, committing your code means that you save your code to this website called GitHub. When your code is working, you will want to commit it, so that if you break your code again, you can look back at your old code that was previously working. I did this, but my code was a lot more advanced since I hadn't committed my code for a while in previous times. "Oops." I then asked my internship person who was able to solve it rather quickly. After this fiasco was done, I was able to abstract another piece of code. This part was my movement function. I moved this into the character creation JS file. After that, it was time to go. This internship was a lot of fun and a huge success. I learned a lot about different coding languages and am excited to hopefully come back next semester.

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