Week 5. Post 2.

 Discuss how teamwork in your CSC courses at Berea has influenced your internship experience.

Today I and my co-worker (another intern) have been working on various tasks such as editing the web page, creating a new feature with Jgit, and editing some methods in the existing controller file. We have completed have of the tasks that we were supposed to finish by Friday's demo presentation time. However, we got stuck on several issues and we were not simply even being able to understand the issue itself; not even talking about solving the issue. My first reaction was a little bit panicking since it is already Thursday and it did not feel like we will be able to finish our tasks on time by Friday. It felt somewhat overwhelming as we got stuck and did not make much progress the whole day.

Before coming to this internship, I undervalued the importance of teamwork and always ignored the good principles of pair programming. Before, I and my co-worker have been working independently most of the time. However, this time we had to work together and I had to practice my teamwork and communication skills. Before coming to the internship, I thought that as long as I can do my job everything should be good. However, I was mistaken. I could not coordinate well the allocation of the work with my co-worker which led to the fact that we have wasted our time working on the same HTML editing task. I felt I can finish everything by myself and do not have to talk to my co-worker. Then, I set down and thought of how we can effectively do pair-programming so we do not work on the same issue separately and waste our time coding for nothing.

Next time, I will not underestimate the importance of teamwork and go straight into thinking of the way how to allocate tasks efficiently in the team. I will try to ask myself: "What am I good at and what my teammate is good at and how we can split tasks so we both learn and at the same time be efficient in our process?".