Grid World

I really like GridWorld as a medium because it allows you to see what you are doing a lot better than when you are just writing code. Like, when I can see the bug turn too early in spiralbug I can understand what I need to fix better than if in a lab my results come out 1 too high. Its a lot easier to troubleshoot because of the graphical interface I think. Either way, GridWorld has been a nice reprieve from the other more bland labs we do.

What we are learning

The bases unit is really interesting I think, but at the same time, it requires a lot more work than I am used to in deciphering coding commands. Converting bases just seems really monotonous and tedious to me. But thats okay. Chopper seems really useful, I think there have been labs in the past where that would have been useful to have as an option when coding. As time has gone on, I think that comp sci has definitely gotten easier, but thats not to flat out say its easy. Im still not totally getting the work, but I feel like I do understand it a lot better than I did before, I am even able to get labs done in class now!

I am very sick

Wednesday morning I woke up with a really bad fever was very sick. This left me bedridden until the weekend, causing me to miss school and be incapable of starting my make up work. On Saturday I was able to start working on some school work, but on Sunday I got worse. Apparently the brief reprieve Saturday offered was the time it took my virus to leave my sinuses and move into my lungs. This I learned from the doctor today. I have gotten very behind in all my classes, particularly Comp Sci, and I know I am going to have to make up a lot of this work in the coming days and weeks. I am already working on it.

Tutoring Again

Going to tutoring this second time has really really helped a lot. I dont know why, but its always so much easier to work after school than it is in class. In any case, this help has produced far better results than the prior tutoring. For instance, this last week I was actually able to get some labs done on my own in class. One can only hope this trend will continue.