CST 338 - Week 01

Week 01
This week, I worked through different Coding Bat challenges. It was a really good way to dip my feet back into programming again, after taking almost two years off to focus on electronics. First step was to familiarize myself again with Java's syntax. When it came to approaching the problems, especially with strings, I had to pull out a pen and paper to physically see what characters would be accessed depending on the indexes my "for loop" was on. Because I really wanted to just dive back in, I gave some problems a little thought on how I think I can solve it, then wrote out the code. Once the logical errors presented itself, I would think a little more about what I did not consider (typically not accounting for all the cases). I struggled the most with arrays and strings, because I have really forgotten how to manipulate them efficiently, taking me several tries. My favorite so far was working with maps and functional maps, with the use of lambdas, something I have not had the opportunity to work with in prior classes. Really enjoyed it and found it useful. I was able to solve those almost first try for all of them. I will be going back through the challenges this weekend, after I complete my other assignments, to get more review.




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