Remember that game with four colored pegs where you had to guess the correct colors and order in 15 tries? Well that's what I'm trying to build. Surprisingly, it's going really well. A couple of weeks ago, I wouldn't have even known where to begin. Now I'm getting to the point where I can actually build stuff and understand it. It's incredible to see such progress in such a short period of time.
When I get frustrated or don't understand what to do next, I take breaks to read intro programming books or study Ruby documentation. I'm not sure how accurate this theory is, but I still believe that knowledge osmosis will sink in—that my brain will store little bits of information, and someday, at just the right moment, that knowledge will come back into my consciousness and add the missing piece to a puzzle. Regardless of whether or not that's true, taking a break from staring at broken code does help me to refresh my thoughts and approach the problem more effectively.
I still have a lot of work before Mastermind is complete, but I'll post the code to GitHub soon.
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