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We really haven't done much. We did three quizzes over arrays of references, which I honestly didn't think was very hard despite the fact that a whole lot of people seem to be struggling with it. I don't know, I just do what I normally do with arrays and don't really think about the references in particular and it all works out just fine for me. The only one I've ever had any real trouble with was that ridiculously complicated nest of different references on the last question of the arrays of references review, and even then I got everything but the last print statement right on the first try. Other than that, we just did a free response question, which was really easy, and we're getting ready for the final next week. So, not much to talk about.

Album

That was extremely frustrating. It turned out that the reason I had to spend the entire class period and some of lunch beating my head against this lab was because of two problems. All I had to do was switch two index  values and change a single character in my remove length method, and it went from bizarre unexplained problems that defied explanation to working perfectly. Such incredibly tiny errors caused the program to bug out in very strange ways, and almost escaped my notice because the errors were strange enough I was looked for fundamental flaws in some of my methods, rather than typos.

References

References are kind of confusing me. Whenever I'm reading about what they're supposed to do, like in the presentation, the way that java handles them makes absolutely no sense to me. However, when I'm just doing the labs and working with the references it makes perfect sense and I've got no problem with them. If I try to think about them, I fail at them, but if I just do what makes sense to me, then it works out properly. Its really strange.