David Oakes Learning Journal

The semester now comes to a quiet close. Sorry I couldn't post last week. Christmas is rolling up, and the second and final project must be finished by Friday morning. I simply haven't been able to find the time. Regardless, my time in the Software Engineering course is also coming to a close. Tomorrow begins the last official week until the winter break, in time for Christmas. My question: Where the heck did it all go?! I feel like I've only gotten started.  Regardless, This last prompt has asked me how I would've approached the first homework assignment differently, knowing that which I do now. All truths told, I don't think my approach would've changed particularly much. The Hangman assignment was a simple game of hangman played within the console. Much of it is built around the StringBuilder and a collection of integers. I personally, do not see how a Data Access Object or Repository would improve it, beyond adding a few extra bells and whistles. Pulling the...

My time managment skills(more like the lack there of) are really starting to show here. Cut it real close with the Gymlog program we had as homework. Got it in the end, but am I worn out from all the frantic bug checking. Once again the prompt this week is to reflect on last weeks homework. In this case it was  a Markov text generator. And at the hour I'm penning this I once again won't be able to answer every question. I know, I really need to get this work scheduling thing down! In any case, much of my strategy for Markov was the same as the LDPM from the week before. Go over the documentation, set up the method frameworks and comment-notes, then write out the code. And spend at least an hour fuming over that one bug that's shown up unannounced and is wrecking everything. Considering how well the approach is performing thus far, save that last bit, I might end up keeping it. And that statement goes for how I handle Java style, too. If it isn't broken, why risk breakin...