Week 12 probably - Midterm Complete

Rough week in the town of Kevsville. Work went nuts and as I am writing this, I have had four hours of sleep out of the last 60. On the bright side that should subside and this weekend I am in a Hearthstone tournament like an adult person should be. As far as what I've been studying, this week we delved into audio which was really cool for me because it isn't pictures. I got to write some new code and felt like I learned a lot.

Week 11 - More of the same

Hey folks, this will be a relatively short post since not much has changed. Although this might mark a landmark week for how little new code I actually had to write. Quite a bit of this week was mostly about combining techniques used in previous labs. Again I understand the necessity but I see myself as a Sherlock Holmes except way dumber and way less sexy. I like to solve problems and this kind of stuff is more akin to putting together a jigsaw puzzle. I am excited for the midterm project as that will necessitate something new and I am also excited to work with my partner who's pretty awesome. So next week thinks will all be coming up Kev!

Week 10: The Grind

This week was a little rough for me. I felt like the labs had a lot of the "Now do the same thing for these other fifty nearly identical situations" in them. I suppose it is good because with us being so early in our understanding of python, rote practice and repetition helps drive home the basics but still, I get bored pretty easily.

Two things any readers can take away from this.

1) I have have practice altering one picture and one color, I don't feel like I need to practice altering a different picture and a different color in basically the same way. For huge portions of this weeks' assignments, I just copy pasted my code and changed one color to another.

2) I will take almost any opportunity to whine about a first world problem.

I ended up having fun with it though. I decided to investigate the mythical Ballmer's Peak. For the uninitiated, the Ballmer's Peak is when a programmer consumes the proper amount of alcohol to become uninhibited enough to think creatively, but not so inebriated that he or she vomits on the keyboard and loses complete control of their motor functions. I am not sure if I hit the peak after four martinis but I definitely had a good time during the investigation. Further research may be required.

Week 9 - Python

This week I got a crash course in python. I had always been interested in this language but slightly too lazy to ever take the plunge and learn it myself. After this primer, I am very excited to move forward. I also need to thank my original java professor for forcing us to have very good code style and indents since that basically replaces brackets in python.

Struggles were definitely adapting to the new course. I did not realize I was taking a quiz in the workbooks until after my first one. Thankfully, I did fine but it still threw me for a loop. I will definitely have to look at the assigned readings much more carefully to make sure I don't miss anything.