This Week

I don't have anything actually Compsci related to write about. Tuesday we were just doing the same thing we were doing last week, which I really can't write another blog post about, because that would be stupid. Then, I was out on a field trip Thursday, so I don't have anything to say about what we did then. Instead, I'm going to write about that field trip. The two APES classes got to go out to the Lost Pines for the entire school day and plant baby pine trees in areas that had been severely burned during the fire there a while back. Overall, it was fun, but the hundreds of fire ant nests (seriously, every single tree stump had some fire ants next to it) were very annoying, and carrying around the 18 pound hunk of metal we were using to dig the holes to put the seedlings in got tiring. Overall, we planted 1572 baby pine trees, which means we planted the most out of any previous group, despite also being the smallest group.

OOP

OOP is really confusing me. Maybe its just because I wasn't paying quite as much attention as I should have been during the presentation, or maybe its just a dense topic but I don't really get it. I'm looking at the labs, and I get the point of what its asking, but I'm just not really understanding the implementation of the things in the slides in the labs. That's probably just me though, and most likely because of the aforementioned lapse in attention during the relevant presentation. As to NACLO, I'm thinking that I'll take it, but then again I thought I'd take it last year, and in the end something came up which prevented me from actually participating. So, I'll  probably sign up, but its still iffy as to whether or not I'll be able to take it.

Contest

That little contest that we had in class was fun. None of the problems were hard, and they were all pretty fun to figure out and complete with only minor errors and setbacks. More amusing, however, was the really strange mistakes that I saw people making. I'm not gonna name any names, but it was really odd watching people do a problem you did with one for loop and an if statement or two, and see them use several for loops and what looked like five or six while loops. I suppose that just illustrates the extremes differences in thought processes between people. I thought all of the problems were fairly straightforward, but I guess not everyone agreed with me.