CSC148 Week of Feb 24

Click here for the definition of recursion.
^^ I think that defined it.

Recursion is the process of a function repeatedly calling itself or a sub-function until a certain condition is met. This is useful in reducing the length of the code when used at the right places, but it is also inefficient, causing larger processes to take a noticeably longer period of time to run. Therefore for small programs, it is an effective tool, but it is less useful larger programs when the inefficient runtime is more noticeable.

CSC148 Week of Feb 10

The assignment felt like an overload when I first started working on it because I was trying to understand everything at once. However once I got into a group and we went over it, it became a lot easier. In my group I probably did the least in terms of the programming itself, but I was able to catch the mistakes that my teammates made and debug them. Although debugging is supposed to be more difficult than programming, I found it both easier and more enjoyable...I'm strange.

CSC148 Week of Feb 3

Before even starting the assignment I felt a bit overloaded, by the feed from the course discussion board on Piazza, a constant stream of questions and even a correction to the original code by the instructors. Then, in starting the assignment, I figured I could just jump right into the coding...*stares at computer screen for an hour (well I typed the headers at least for TOAHModel)*.

Then I went back to actually read the non-stop feed I had been receiving from Piazza. The comments and questions from the other students really helped clear up my confusion about what I was supposed to do. (Guess I should go read some of their blogs too now that I saw we should do that from the feed)

CSC148 Week of Jan 27

Our labs and exercises have been very straightforward and simple recently. They are basically guiding the person straight through everything, so as of now this course has felt really simple. I just hope that this doesn't mean that I'm going to have problems with the assignments and tests.