CST 338 Week 7/Week 8 Learning Journal

HW 1

Looking back at HW 1, Markov Text Generation, I do not think I would approach it any different. I think I still would go into it solving the smaller methods first, and then going method call by method call. Now I think maybe my actual coding and efficiency would've gotten a lot better as I learned more throughout the year, making for better code, but I would have approached the assignment the same. 

Two Victories

I know it was a while ago but the coding bat practice was something I was really proud of. Not only was it a good review for some of the extreme basics, but I genuinely learned coding I had not before. I remember going through the strings segment and actually looking at the class and its functionality and being really intrigued by what it had to offer. Same for HashMap. That was new to me and I enjoyed learning about it. 

Another victory was confidence in polymorphism, abstraction, extending, and interfaces. When I first learned about it I always got them confused and their characteristics. Like when can I call an abstract class, when can I call an abstract method, or which class extends which, is this an interface, and all of that. But now after doing so many assignments involving them and relearning them I am confident that I know the difference and what each can do. 

Wrapping up this semester I am very happy with the knowledge I've gained and the work I have done, I think it is a great start!

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