My Computer Science Journey

This week we had a Histogram Java coding assignment. It had been a few weeks, perhaps even two or three months since I have code an assignment or a project. I had to relearn a few things, but it was not too bad. I was able to start remembering the Java syntax after writing some lines of code. I had forgotten how try catch works and I spent a few minutes reviewing that. I had never used the StringBuilder class before and it was interesting to learn that and it made the display() function work easier.   The most difficult part of this assignment was the display() function, I spent a few hours by trial and error figuring out the printf(). It was challenging to figure out a way to print the histogram. I had to take a break for a hour or so. When I returned to give it, after another try somehow I was surprise to come up with the idea of using the StringBuilder to append the next letter to print base on the number of occurrence if it was equal or greater the highest number of occu...

  Discuss the process of solving the Coding Bat challenges.  A major part of software design is thinking about how to approach a problem with the tools we have at our disposal.  What were the steps you took to solve some of these challenges?  This week we worked on solving Coding Bat challenges. Some of them were very easy and I knew exactly how to solve these coding problems while a few were very difficult. One in particular I have not been able to finish it. For the more difficult coding problems I had to write out what I needed. I sat and worked on some pseudo code.  I also had to look up a lot of information since I it has been a few weeks that I had not written any serious Java. I had to get a refresher on a Java syntax, and library methods. I am working on this: Return true if the given string contains an appearance of "xyz" where the xyz is not directly preceeded by a period (.). So "xxyz" counts but "x.xyz" does not. xyzThere("abcxyz") → ...

P art 1: Review Other Teams' final video projects Predictive Modeling for Computing  Professionals https://youtu.be/DUtErdKvH_w The topic of predictive modeling was covered well. The presentation went into dept and explain it well. T he presentation was clear, each slide was clear.  A lot of information and seemed it was well researched.   The slides were a little dull, it could have been better with more color, a lot of the slide were just white with some bullet points. The  video was a little interesting some of the group members were better presenting the information than others. One was a little monotone.  Looks like everyone knew their parts so they must have worked together to coordinate.  The video, was appropriate for the technology professionals.  General Public https://youtu.be/MzS0hzXp0Vw The topic for is well covered, but the presentation would be difficult to follow for someone without the more knowledge. Somethings are not explained ...

  Book review The book How To Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie was a very interesting perspective on how to view the world and react with others. I learned a lot about how to interact with people. The book explains that people do rationalize their behaviors no matter what other people think. Even if they are illogical, they believe that they do what they think is right. Criticizing someone is damaging to a relationship because it hurts the pride of a person, hurts the sense of importance. The book uses various examples from people personal experiences of what is being explained. For example, the book explains not to criticize because it may lead to resentment or hurt a relationship. There is a story of a supervisor having trouble getting his employees to comply with wearing a hardhat on the construction site. Instead of reprimanding them he used a different approach and explained that the hardhats are importing because it keeps them safe. Employees started to...

  Part One This week is the last week for CST300, we collaborated well as a team. We broke down the Final Research Video Project to sections, each team member will be responsible for a section. We agreed on getting a daft ready for our team meeting this Thursday and discussing anything that needs to be edited or improved. I had not used PowerPoint for a long time, it was fun getting to relearn PowerPoint and it was my first time using the record button. I found it easy to work with my team. In the future I think as a team it would be helpful to make an outline with what will be presented in the PowerPoint before we start the audio recording.  Part Two We watched ted.com videos this week, I watched With AI, anyone can be a coder now, it was a very interesting video. The video explained how it program was very difficult to understand as it evolved it became more familiar to understand. In a short span of time AI has made it possible for anyone start coding with the help of copil...