As my little world knows, I’ve had to take a break the past week for mental health reasons. Looking back now, only after a few days, I wonder what the heck was wrong with me. I’m not too sure, but it felt ‘crippling’. I won’t go into details but I’m feeling better now. I just need to pace myself. And with that, I did about 30 minutes yesterday before a migraine set in, so coding was pretty much done after that. Today I managed about an hour or a little more working on a Ruby problem that asks a user for a positive integer, then asks if they want to compute either the sum or the product of all the numbers between 1 and that number that they entered. I managed to solve it with a case statement, but wasn’t too happy with it. Looking at other people’s solutions, instead of feeling worried thinking that theirs looked better than mine, I tried to think: ‘What are they doing that is working, that I could implement in my solution?’ It helps to see plenty of unique solutions and be able to pick out the ones that I think are most readable. Knowing this, I’m able to tell myself that ultimately I’ll be able to write better code because I’ve seen so many ways to do one thing. I’ll do one more problem tonight and start back to do about 6 hours tomorrow.