Reading Week

So my reading week was a lot of fun. I didn't get as much work as id hoped to get done, but that's life. Over the week I tried to do my best to study and review for the midterm coming up this Wednesday. I have yet to attempt the practice tests, that i'm leaving for tomorrow night. I reviewed the slides for the past month and a half (already that long?!) and made sure I had an in-depth understanding of objective code writing at the very least. not much else to report really. I hate explaining things over the internet or things like this, it just seems so feeble compared to in-person communication. 

On another note, still waiting for assignment 1 grades. I realized as always that marking takes time, but I always hated how teachers/profs give new assignments when they haven't handed the previous assignments back. Anyways I've read assignment 2 and plan on starting it soon. I don't want to make the same mistake I made for assignment 1, where I waited too long to get some solid hours of work into it, which resulted in me only being able to complete about 75% of it (excuse the run-ons). But since this one is broken in to parts i'm hoping that I will be much more successful. 

Anyways that's me, posting again in the next few days, maybe after the test so i can talk about that along with recursion.

SLOGLORD3000

Week 5: A lot of Stuff and Such

    Hello everyone! Sorry for the silence last (almost two ago) week! The midterm struggle is real. So not much really to talk about this week, other than the assignment 1.

    TOAHModel seems to be presenting a rowdy challenge, but over all i think will end well. My largest complaint about it is how its presented to us ( "us" being the students of CSC148). The way it seems to me the instructions are vague and to not pose much help. From my perspective actually, I would  almost be better of without the instructions Danny gave us. I understand the problem perfectly well (the big cheese not going on the small cheese, representing the stools either as dictionaries or as nested lists), it just seems as though there was a slice of hints, for lack of a better term, missing. I do understand that there needs to be a difficulty increase from the CSC108 assignments, but this just confused me. Either way after probably around 15 hours working on it with my partner, we figured some of it out. Still not done though.

    Anyways, I checked out my friends SLOG and i noticed she writes probably 6 small paragraphs. That seems a little excessive to me, but I guess I'm not a natural born SLOGGER (Contrary to the title of this slog, of course). Don't get me wrong, programming is very interesting to me and I know its going to be imperative to my future, but there are a few other things id rather be doing... like kickboxing, sleeping, and eating to name a few.

Finally, I'll say good bye! until next week! (just wait if I'm still up ill cut my losses and post one in 40 minutes haha)

Love,

SLOGLORD3000