Wk02: Learning Journal

 As I reflect on my week, I haven't spent as much time on my homework, which has been really frustrating. 

My instructions for the week were "write a paragraph or two about what you worked on during week 1.  Think about what was hard, what went well, and how those lessons will influence your work in the future weeks."

Last week was really stable. I had assignments, and I completed them. Although they were not extremely hard, they made me realize that I still need to relearn many things I had forgotten, so I appreciate the review. I still have to work on 2 more homework, the Pokémon one and the final shapes. I've made some progress, but I will finish it eventually. 

Slightly unrelated to week one, but my best moment so far in taking this class was finishing lab 1. I was 88 -89% done with it, and I fell asleep at my desk by accident around 12:30 a.m. Soon after I woke up, I did the best thing possible: I started accepting every suggestion IntelliJ gave me to "better" my code and finish the last part faster since I was exhausted. What was the result? Well, I messed up the whole code, I messed up main, rectangle, triangle, EVERYTHING! By the time I noticed, I panicked and tried to undo my sin. While I was panicking, I clicked the option to update the project and then merged it without thinking. It was already 1 am, and I almost started crying. Then, the best thing that happened was that I noticed I was still in the main branch instead of the test one, and somehow my triangle branch had disappeared. 

Long story short, I gave up on the test branch, went back to GitHub, and copied and pasted what I wrote into IntelliJ again. Did triangle again and submitted it by 1:59 a.m. 

This experience made me realize I am a true computer scientist; I suffered like an undergrad and made easily avoidable mistakes. 

Anyway, back to week 1, I enjoyed doing CodeBat; I got to review a lot of things and decided to do better. I will dedicate more time to studying and homework. 


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