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.

The Textbooks

There are two textbooks that are on sugarsync. I have looked at both of them and while they are not wholly enlightening, I do think they helped a bit. I like them mainly because it explains the concepts in a great many words as opposed to the few used on the slides. I definitely still need to go in for tutoring, but it is still nice to read the textbooks. One thing that I haven't yet found in the textbooks however, is information regarding having two separate classes, which I think is what I dont really understand...

Tutoring

I really need to go back to tutoring. While the stuff that I learned in tutoring and we did last 6 weeks now looks really easy, the stuff we are doing this 6 weeks is just as hard and new as the stuff as the first 6 weeks was back then. Well, thats not true. I understands ifs, whiles, and forloops, as in, I get what they do and how they work. I just dont understand how they all fit together into a program that runs well. I dont really know how to reconcile this, but I know I ought to go into tutoring more. Like at least once a week I think.

Tutoring

Going into tutoring really cleared a lot of stuff up. Though, I don't know if actually going to tutoring and reviewing was what helped or if it was actually being there doing the work alone without distractions. I hope it was the former, but I guess if it turns out to be the latter thats okay too. It was so much easier and made so much more sense in tutoring than at home or in class. Like magic.