Failure Redefined

When we were growing up, we were taught never to fail in our exams. We were taught that failure is for the never do well’s in the society. According to Wikipedia —

Coming to Andela Bootcamp Cycle 33, it was an exciting experience, also tasking. I had to learn many things at a time as well as trying to implement them. In the course of this exercise, many of my project parts weren’t working according to the project specifications. For example, Travis CI badge on my Github page was showing error and Coveralls Badge was showing unknown, User Interface was not responsive. All this contributed to me not making it past the first stage of Bootcamp; My guardians termed this as a failure, but Andela has taught us how to see every failure as an opportunity to learn and to grow.

Using this feedback from Andela, I reflected on the things I was doing wrong and where I could improve. I quickly searched for some resources online that tackles these problems in-depth. Some of these resources are: https://medium.com/the-code-review/add-badges-for-travisci-coveralls-and-code-climate-to-your-readme-ruby-6d27caad74ed

In conclusion, not giving up, not seeing failure as a failure but an opportunity to learn and grow, helped me overcome blockers to my goal of becoming a World Class Software Developer.

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