Methods

The methods section is not terribly difficult. It really helps to make things easier to read and clearer. You just have to be able to follow what is going on. It makes repetition of things simpler. I know that I am always looking for the quickest way to get something done and with the methods it is easy to do that. There are a few things I am not positive on but I feel as though with lecture tomorrow I'll be able to get it better. So far I have been understand things much better after lecture than I am before which probably makes sense.

The loops can really get me sometimes. I just need to keep practicing and I'll get better. I've started to look at my homework and I have some stuff going but I still need some tweeks. Computer programming is very rewarding to me. I love the challenge of it. I like when I have to try a few times before I can get something to work out. It is why I like math too. I get frustrated after a bit but I'll just come back to it later on in the day and if it is really still getting me I can always get help. I curious to see how these next few weeks with arrays and methods go. I have heard from some people they can be difficult. I'm ready to see for myself.

Loops are tricky to me sometimes. I know how they work and how to write them out I just get confused when I need to make a program with them sometimes. The last CodeLab problem really is giving me some trouble. I think that by using them more and more I will eventually get the hang of them better. I'll have to see if I can wrap my mind around them a little better after lecture. I seemed to get stuff a bit better after it has been taught to me. I think the loops definitely help in making programs that need things to be repeated. Saves me the time it would take to type it all up.

Class on Thursday was helpful for understanding the switches. I was confused about them but now I understand them. The if else statements remind me a lot of Matlab. The are used exactly the same way just typed in a tad different. The printf was the same too. It was the only way to print out that I new in Matlab. It makes me like the regular print and how you can just type in the variable name to get that value to show. The Matlab we did in my Engineering class last semester was very helpful so far in this class. It's just learning the different names of things but the concepts are similar. I like that because I was afraid I wasn't going to know how to do anything. I am enjoying doing Java so far!

The second lab went well. It was really cool to have you and your partners' program worked. It was frustrating sometimes, though, when the two of you couldn't figure out what was wrong. Our TA helped us through those times. All together the process of making a simple program is fun. I enjoy making things. I like when you finish up a project and the successful feeling you get inside. I feel like the little bit of MatLab I learned last semester helped me so far with learning the basics. I'm trying to remember all the basic functions that are in the chapters because I feel that this class builds off of the things I will be learning in the first few chapters.

First One

Well, I successfully completed my homework for tomorrow already and I wasn't to confused. CS1121 seems like it will be a fun class. I enjoyed the first lecture last week. It is all very interesting to  me. I am not understanding a the string literal that much but I got my CodeLab codes to work and it always feels pretty successful to me. I hope that the rest of this class is just as entertaining as the first two days. For now I think I'm doing alright.  I already liked computers before this class but mainly I only know about the hardware of the computer so it is nice to learn more about the software of computers.