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Discussion on: What was the hardest concept you had to wrap your head around?

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Marcus

I had a hard time understanding and implementing a SOAP service once.
And another very hard time to wrap my head around google firebase authentication and storage without using their libraries...

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Arika O

I see you struggled with some really complicated things while I was there like "Hi, I'm Silvia and I can't understand for each loops".

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Austin S. Hemmelgarn

Everybody has to start somewhere, and everybody has their own unique strengths and weaknesses.

One thing you'll definitely learn as you code is that no matter how difficult some thing you've learned seemed at the time, there's always something out there that will challenge you more.

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Arika O • Edited

Hopefully we'll never run out of things to learn :). Thank you for your input.

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Michiel Hendriks

I had a hard time understanding and implementing a SOAP service once.

The 'S' in SOAP standards for Simple.
But you had a hard time? Which means you no longer have to deal with SOAP, right?

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Marcus

I had to consume a SOAP Service to book train tickets, while retrieving data was relatively easy, posting data was weird. It took a while until I understood the whole concept (I didn't write those xml messages myself, but used the php soap client) , and the data structure was very complex, it was hard to focus. At the end it helped me to understand and appreciate REST much more :). And no SOAP anymore, only for washing my hands. :)