Week of November 5

This week we didn't learn anything new because of the scores lab, and we also had the 6 weeks test this week. The six weeks test didn't go to well, I failed the multiple choice section of the test pretty bad because I didn't fully grasp the question or I just didn't get the material of the question at all. I ended up with a 66 on the test, and it brought my grade down from a mid B to a high C. I'm going to have to start coming into mini tutoring sessions to get myself well rounded with the material and hopefully last at least through the semester, and see if I want to drop down to computer programming and not stay on course at the AP level of learning. Other than the six weeks test, we just finished the scores lab and went over arrays before the actual test.

Week of October 29

This week we learned about arrays and started the Scores lab. We also got 3 worksheets over Arrays and I was able to finish them before the week was over. The week was pretty relaxed because we had a few workdays to be able to finish up our assignments before they were all due before Monday. I finished AliceCounter on Tuesday, and finally turned in Files on Thursday or Friday. The 6 weeks test is in two weeks and it will be challenging. I think I'm either going to come in for help from Mr. Stephens or start looking at things online to get my Java skills up to par. It's not as hard as it seems but it just confuses me when it comes to pure code writing.

Week of Oct 22

This week we learned about for loops and files. The for loops were challenging for me because it took me a while to understand how the code in the parenthases after "for" worked. While loops and for loops are confusing to me. I really like if statements better. We also went over files and had the Alice count lab where we had to go through a text file with the entire story of Alice In Wonderland and we had to see how many times certain letters were written in the story. This took a while because I didn't really understand the code to do this. After talking to some of my peers and getting help from Mr. Stephens about how to do it, I was finally able to understand how the program worked and I finished. We also got files worksheets and scanner worksheets this week. Worksheets are no problem to me, but everytime I have to write code my mind kind of freaks out and it takes me a while to cope what to write. I've started looking at tutorials online and hopefully it will help me understand Java and not get me behind.