Saturday, February 1, 2014

Slog #2...Recursions!


      It’s the fourth week of the winter semester; one month has gone by! This week started off a bit stressful for me, since I had an Economics test on Monday (I’m praying for a good grade!!), and Calculus problems set due on the same day. In addition to those work, Assignment 1 for CSC148 was posted online….how great!! I read the handout and the contents seemed very foreign to me, especially TOAH model. I can predict that the next 2 weeks are going to be extremely hectic for me because of CSC148’s Assignment 1 and mid-term tests for my other courses. I am really worried about the Assignment because I had just started it with my partner and we were totally confused and clueless of what to do. I’m praying that we will be able to finish Step 2 (at least!) before the end of next week!!
      Anyways, back to CSC148….this week’s lectures were mainly about RECURSION, which was something new to me. Thus, I had some difficulty understanding how recursion works. However, my main goal for the next week is to actually go through recursion one step at a time, until I feel comfortable writing it on my own, especially for Assignment 1. By the way, Thursday’s lecture was a bit interesting….TURTLES!!
   This week’s lab wasn’t too bad. The lab helped me reviewed unittesting, as well as class structure. Thanks to the lab, I felt a bit more confident on writing class and their structure. I was able to learn many new things or techniques in the lab, as well! One of them being the way we can test the Exceptions in unittest (i.e. AssertRaises). Another thing I learnt was inheritance (i.e. “super().”). This was my first time actually writing code that ‘inherits’ some attribute from the (parent) class, and by doing so, we were able to slightly alter the class or subclass. Also, I am grateful for my lab partner, who explained to me how it works. In my opinion, this week’s lab was quite enjoyable, as I was able to walk out the lab room learning and actually understanding the content.
   Well, there goes my week! Hope it’s better next week! J

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