CST 338: Week 1

Performing the CodingBat challenges were not too difficult, but they did take me quite a bit longer than estimated. Most of my programming experience had been established over two years ago when I was getting my associate's degree in computer science and most of the language was C++ and one course on assembly language. Therefore, I am not only out of practice but I also had to spend the last five days completing an introduction to Java programming course on O'Reilly to prepare for this course.

I didn't really plan out my approaches to the CodingBat challenges, but most of my immediate logic was perfect. The most consistent problem I came across was forgetting syntax, which I would argue is reasonable in my case. I think writing out the logic before writing out my first attempts could have potentially saved me some minor syntax and compiling errors. The majority of exercises I was able to complete within one attempt but there were a few that took multiple tries.

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