Week 4 ready for review

[potatoesnmolasses]

@pawaitemadisoncollege

What were your key learning points/takeaways? I wanted to dive straight into my project for this one to feel like I was making progress. I got started using the ORM for the first time - it was a bit fiddly but a lot less fiddly than setting up the User dao from scratch a couple weeks ago!
For project research, I'm thinking ChatGPT should be pretty simple to incorporate if that's the route I decide to go (Will likely be limited on my test runs though, with the free model). For the sessions themselves, I'm finding that JavaScript technology seems to be recommended over my options with Java. That being said I may have found a solution that could work for me!

What challenged you? I'm back to my less optimal computer so the work was a bit of a slog - will eventually try to expand the memory/cores on this VM but I know it'll be a hassle, so I've been putting it off.

What problems did you solve and what resources did you use to solve them? As part of my effort this semester to work a bit more on my time management/reflection note taking skills, I recorded the issues that took me the longest to resolve:

• had to update class name in hibernate properties - was getting a ClassNotFound exception while running unit tests, saying the Session class could not be found. This was after I had renamed it from Session to NudgeSession so as not to conflict with the already existing Session/SessionFactory classes. Eventually I re-watched the course video and found that hibernate properties was the only place I had not updated
• source file - for a time I was noticing that IntelliJ wasn't notifying me of quick fixes or properly color coding with errors. A google search told me that this could be resolved by marking the Java folder as the source file. Easy peasy.
• wrong Database import - While unit testing I could not get the Database class to cooperate. Eventually I realized that the import statement was pointing to Hibernate's Database class (I believe it was imported automatically via Quick Fix). I swapped it out and all ran smoothly

[pawaitemadisoncollege]

Hi @potatoesnmolasses! Wow! Lots of progress here since I last reviewed your repository. I feel like I got a two-for-one here as you completed week 5 before I had a chance to review week 4. You've done a good job writing unit tests that thoroughly test your entities and the relationships. The only thing I'd suggest is to implement an equals method on your entities for easier comparison of the various values on two entities.

I appreciate your list of problems too. Not sure if this is what you did, but I can't tell you how many times I've imported the wrong package by taking the first suggestion IntelliJ makes.

Keep up the great momentum! Deploying this out to AWS this week should help you easily hit the mark for check point 2 (which is due next week).