Wk07/08

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 Looking back at the HW1

Looking back at HW1, I see how much easier it was to accomplish it with the knowledge I know now. I could’ve managed my time better to better understand the concept of the program. Also, I would implement my enjoyment of writing down notes that organize my thoughts and highlight important details when writing a code. If I were to restart the HW1 assignment, I would take a totally different approach. I would first write and check off each field, member, and stub method needed for the program. Then I would work on what each field and member consist of for the program to work. This is when my time management would’ve helped me if I executed it properly. I needed to spend a great amount of time working on each method to make sure the program ran properly.

Highlight at least two victories.

When starting off this class, I thought understanding math and programming languages would make this class easier but when entering it was very confusing to understand at first. With the help of the material given to us to learn, I was able to understand many concepts throughout this class and I enjoyed going through the struggles of learning them and putting them to work. The two victories that I want to recognize are calling a method or a class and making several methods within a Java class. It was hard to understand calling a method and knowing which arguments to pass, if any. If the method is static or non-static, when calling them it was written a bit differently. During Project 1, I was stuck on calling methods and classes and I practiced until I understood it. It solved several errors I had in Project 1 and after finishing I only had one test fail, so I was also proud of that. My other victory was making several methods in a class and after understanding my first victory, it was easier for me to accomplish my second one. 

After each passed test, passed method, and seeing the code run, I had the excitement and relief of accomplishment. It just comes to show that I am in the right field even through the challenges I face.


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