It is finally that day. I have been waiting for GUI for a long time now. I finally get to use the buttons and enter in text and all that good stuff. I'm really excited. I'm almost done with my homework but I just need to fix a few errors I came across. Hopefully I can get them fixed pretty soon and pretty easy. It is amazing how much we have learned in just a few weeks. I'm excited to keep learning more computer science and hope that it is just as fun as it is now.

The file class is kind of confusing to me. I think I sort of understand it but not positive. I'm sure after lecture I'll understand because it will be drawn out for me and my brain thinks better that way. I feel good because I  am ahead right now but I might be missing lecture today so I hope I don't miss anything to important. I have a good enough grade in the class that I'm not terribly worried and I can always ask for help if I need it. I'm in a basketball tournament and if we win I hope I won't have to miss another class.

Well codeLab was challenging for tomorrow but I did it. Got them all. I'm pretty happy with myself. I had to do it on eclipse so I could actually figure them out. Mainly problem 7 was the only super rough one. I just followed up all the errors that I had and eventually came out to the right answer. The reason I love programming. It is like a giant puzzle. Just need time and patience and you will eventually finish it. I love the problem solving it takes. That's why I'm excited for next year when I continue with math classes and take a discrete math class which I heard is all logical stuff. But the string is just another object. I really like that eclipse tells you all kinds of stuff you can do if you type stringName. it will show all the options you have. That helped with the last homework as well.

The lab quiz went great today. I got done even faster than the first quiz. I was happy that I did good as well. I really feel like I know stuff. Not only that but my program only has one more thing to be done. That just came about like nothing. I don't even know how I did it really. A lot of guess and check work. I just get confused on what I'm supposed to be doing with the different parameters coming in and returning different things. What I think I'm going to be getting is not what I get. But I'm at 90 percent right now on the program so I'm not worried at all. I just don't like when I can't get things to work because I know if I have to program for my job I'll have to have them done. But oh well. Hope everyone did good today.

I haven't yet started my program but I hope that it isn't terribly difficult. The plan is to start tonight. I definitely have some ideas on what to do. The static variables seem to be not so difficult. They are harder to follow than regular variables but nothing that bad. I think we have already learned about some of the stuff for tomorrows reading. I learn a lot better by seeing examples being explained then trying to read about it myself. I hope and I continue in this major I will get good examples in class like this semester. I enjoy the class a lot. Not a big hassle class and very fun. I like the logical thinking of it.

I feel very good right now. I did all the codeLab problems very easily. I mean it is pretty simple since we have been doing objects for a while now but usually I have to wait and kinda learn all the specific syntax and that. With this I didn't need that so I feel good. I am a bit nervous for next Wednesday though because of the lab quiz. I did very well on my lab last time but I have sort of forgotten things after break so I'll have to be sure to look and them. I had forgotten most of the things I learned about 2-D arrays that we did today. I think the lab helped set them in my mind at least now. I think I should do decent.

Well back from break and I'm already ready to be done. But I'm excited to learn some more Java! The constructors are very not difficult but are very nice. It cool to be able to make sure you have values in for your object it helps save some time in the overall process. Other then constructors I just hope that I can remember everything I've learned so far. Hopefully it will all come back to me. Let's see, arrays, arraylists, and other objects. Well I can always look back at them. If I knew how to do them before I should be able to do them again. Haha

Objects were pretty crazy today. I really enjoyed the analogy used today in lecture. It made everything much easier to understand for me. The class being like a recipe for an object where as the object is actually the thing itself. I hope that all our objects aren't always just virtually. I hope some eventually become actual pictures that you can do things too. I think that might come in the GUI lessons towards the end of the year. I'm really happy to be learning how to program! I'm actually in computer science major and I'm happy with my choice so far. I'm curious what exactly I'll be doing.