Discussion on: What's the most interesting software development you've ever done?

We once built an e-learning app for architecture students about real estate economics. There were around 75 different values to consider/calculate, with lots of dependencies and connections between them. Our job was to make these calculations as comprehensible as possible, while still being accurate.

I knew nothing about that topic and basically had to kindof do the course itself first. I ended up covering a 1.5-by-2 meter whiteboard with calculations and diagrams to really understand what was going on and kept it next to my desk for the entire project. I even played through one of the exams to see where I was still lacking the necessary understanding.

In the end, we implemented everything in Vue+Vuex (getters are amazing!) and calculated the test cases by hand together with the client, to see if everything was working as expected.

For me, the transformation of such complex domain knowledge into code was amazing. I loved the process of learning in this project.