CST 334: Week 8

 Write a 1 - 2 paragraph journal post, of at least 250 words, summarizing what your biggest takeaways from CST334 were, including any major challenges or topics you found particularly interesting.

 

One of my biggest takeaways from CST 334 is that material is very extensive and it would probably benefit me to take time when I have it to go back over it all at my own pace. I understand that all the material is meant to be covered in less than 8 weeks, but it seemed a bit unrealistic at times to expect us to be working on the weekly average worth of reading, lectures, and assignments while also doing some group work and preparing for the next exam. I need to take at least a week longer or so with all the material than we were given and do at least four more assignments for each module so I practice applying the material I had just learned. Another takeaway I had was that there was so much pre established code in most of the assignments that would have been helped to taken more time with and understand. I plan to take as much materials as I can from the course resources to redo certain assignments and relearn certain topics to develop a deeper understanding. Unfortunately, I’m running on no sleep and have been falling asleep writing this last post so I have to hope the content will be there in the morning. If all else fails I’ll reach out to the professor to get whatever he’d be willing to give me.