Week 3

It is just the third weeks of class after the winter break, but i am feeling a lot of pressure. The second week lab exercise was harder than i thought and struggled me and my partner for a while. I took CSC 108 last semester, we studied class and object but we did not have to write a full class, like the one in the lab exercise. And normally in CSC108, the questions told me exactly what should i do with the class (Eg: how many parameters  __init__ function should take, what methods should be included, ...). In CSC148, only the scenario is given and i have to look for noun, verb and adjective in the scenario then design the whole class's structure from them. It definitely was harder and took me sometime to adapt to.

I also learnt from the first week lab that i should do a detailed class design on paper first before starting any codes, especially when i have to deal a long and fairly complicated class like the one in the 1st lab. Otherwise, i just end up wasting a lot of time to rewrite the codes.

The homework exercise though is easier. I especially like the second question when i have to create 2 classes: Toy and Dog. I created a dog with my real dog's name as a parameter, and it is really funny when my dog created the sound "Yip! Squeak" when he played the toy, which i made for him (creating a toy object). And i guessed he really liked his toy, so i let him play the toy hundred times by setting n = 100. 

I really like the idea of the auto tester too, we have chance to see our mistakes and fix it before the deadline. I hope there will be the auto tester for next exercises.

On Wednesday, during the lecture, the class were introduced the idea of recursion. Although recursive function is not a new thing for many students, the recursive function used in the class was much more advanced than the one we studied in high school. I am looking forward to future lectures to see how much more complicated can it be!