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Apprenticeship Patterns is a really interesting book to read and I actually learned a lot from it. For this week, I read about the pattern “Practice, Practice, Practice” and there are a few interesting things I found about it. The pattern starts with a quote by George Leonard saying that masters they don’t just get better by devoting in a particular skill, but they practice getting better and the it gets more enjoyable to perform basic moves over again once they are better. I can definitely agree on this as I think we all have been through a rough beginning of doing something, but when we are better, we would think back how easy it is to do those basic task and we would do those rather than more complex problems that we have to face later on during the process of mastering a skill. Then the author went on to talk about practice is a long process and it has to be done without interruption, and in a comfortable environment of making mistake. At this part, it is interesting to learn

Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for Aspiring Software Craftsman  by Adewale Oshineye and Dave Hoover is a really fascinating book that I’ve read throughout the weekend for my software development capstone class. At first, the book seems to be a lot more intimidating as I did not know what to expect from it, but while reading the first chapter and the introduction of five other chapters, there are some interesting contents that I found. For the first chapter, or the introduction for the entire book, it starts off with the author of the book trying to tell how he started with BASIC and Java afterward and failed to find any interests in them due to the fact that they are not really beginners friendly and I think this applies to a lot of new developers that are constantly trying to get into the field but unable to do it by themselves. He then proceeds to move on to tell about how he found his success years later in Perl and use that leverage to dive deeper into software development

For the project LibreFoodPantry, although it is pretty new, its main page already includes a lot of useful information about the project as well as related topic such as licensing, code of conduct, and the change log, which I think is really important for users, and developers, establishing professionalism. What I found the most useful item in the website is the  Principle behind the Agile Manifesto . This item provides a really brief, but essential core principles for developers to correctly used Agile. As Agile documentation can be a lot and frustrated to go through, I think that this would be an better way for the team to understand them and to make good decisions on the project. These principles pretty much emphasize the value of customer satisfaction, encourage the team to work together as much as the project requires, improving the work environment for developer and operation team, and at the same time cut major costs for the project.

CS-448, or Software Development Capstone, is one of the last classes that I have to take before graduating this Spring 2020. I am really excited to be able to work in this community project LibreFoodPantry as it can be a great experience to be exposed to skills that are needed to get the job done in the Computer Science field like leadership, teamwork and Agile. I hope that I, as well as everyone that are taking this class can make a huge contribution in this project so that it can be in used soon.