On wards and upwards: Week Three
The first project has been completed and submitted. I have been through the Software Engineering class where the first project was also Collatz. I had remembered many of the tricks I used before, including the ones given in class. It was helpful on the quiz. I still got the question about ignoring anything in your range that can be doubled. I wish I had tried to put that tip into my project, but I wasted time I could have used to implement it. I believe I became too complacent with the fact I had done the project before. There were also stupid mistakes made on my part, spending too much time figuring out an issue that I didn’t need to worry about. For a good part of Sunday I was trying to figure out an issue with input that sphere wouldn’t give; anything that would overload an integer.
The lectures the past few days have been difficult to sit in since they are very similar to those at the start of software engineering. I am looking forward to getting into some of the topics listed on the website, and those talked about in the book. Two of them, stack and heap I am eager to hear about since they are two things I always get confused. C++ is not one of my strongest languages, and all 3 of my CS classes this semester are using them. I hope that I will be able to take points from this class and use them in my others. You can only retain information by practice and with all the extracurricular activities I am attempting, class work is the only way I can really do that.