Back To Work 6

Day 294 of writing every day.

I think a weekend without any thoughts on coding and system building was a good way to refresh my mind. My mind started off pretty alert and I had a flowchart going mentally that I put out on the whiteboard. Given that I was able to work out something like a login screen for a database in Access last week, it was time to figure out how it should fit in the overall system.

Figuring out what a system needs to be able to do, and assembling all the parts together into something that works is part of what engineers do. Nothing is finalized until it’s cleared by the client and the drafting stages are basically planning out something that works and meets the requirements they’re asking for and changing things as mistakes and new perspectives are discovered.

It’s restricting working with Access given that it’s not ideal for database management anymore compared to the options to choose from, at least from what I’ve heard. It feels like I’m hotwiring things by relying on chat-GPT to screen what’s on the internet for me and spitting back a simple answer that I can copy and paste then modify to suit my needs. It’s a lot of figuring out how things work that doesn’t get explained since the user experience perspective just isn’t that friendly to beginners.

I’ve had enough trouble with the debug process running in the VBA window that prevented me from editing things in Access that I went through all the buttons to test what would restore my ability to continue working with Access.

There’s going to be a lot of bumps along the road, but it’s part of the learning process I say.

Thanks for reading!