Wk03 Learning Journal: Jotto Code Review

Week 3 Learning Journal here. I completed HW02 Markov and it was much easier than Jotto. I didn’t complete Jotto and there wasn’t a whole lot to be reviewed. I answered the questions for the Jotto Code Review segment of this assignment and submitted it as a pdf. I think it was supposed to be separate?

Week 3 had a timed midterm which I disliked because the code related questions were poorly formatted and pretty hard to read. There were no indentations so it was hard to tell what was going on with that stuff. I feel like the midterm focused primarily on abstraction and ignored the other subjects that we worked with, but maybe that’s just me. I scored very poorly.

I reviewed Marcelo’s Jotto code and it was good. He had good formatting and comments for each method. The code was clean and besides a few very small things it was well thought out. There were possibilities for errors to appear with invalid inputs, but it passes the unit tests so who really cares? The feedback I received was that I should include comments for every method and make sure that they clearly describe how each method is implemented. The biggest issue for me was actually finding time to work on the assignment, and I already submitted my Markov assignment which was feature complete and passed all of the unit tests which proves that time was the only issue. Scheduling is one thing, but I’m confident that I will gradually get faster at coding and use more efficient implementations as well. This is a class about learning after all. That’s all I have for this week.