CS Learning Journal

 Project in Review      As we approach our final week of the semester, I'm feeling the small bit of pressure but also excitement of finishing up our project with my team. The project we've been working on has been rewarding, and having a group of our size has been an overall fun learning experience on how it feels to work with a small team. I've built several healthy communication habits, as well as gotten very familiar with using Git, GitHub, Android Studio, and even navigating documentation and online resources to troubleshoot issues and inspire me to implement solutions we didn't even learn from our class. Our project is due later this week, and even though there is still quite a bit to do on our project, it has been rewarding to see our collective hard work pay off. In my learning journal for next week, I'll go further into detail on what I accomplished as I recap what I've learned from this course. I can't wait to showcase it all!   First Homework in Re...

 Markov Project Review Recently I completed an assignment that emulates a Markov chain and creates a predictive text algorithm based on text files it reads in. This is actually similar to a project I've attempted in the past in C++, so giving it a shot in Java was a fun exercise.   For this review, I partnered up with one of my teammates Jessica Sandoval.  My strategy for solving the problem was similar to my solution solving my first Project. I began by reading the prompt thoroughly, and laying out the class variables as outlined by the provided UML diagram. I also took note of the suggestion to split off my code into two branches: one for reading text input and one for generating sentences. I set the first branch, and after reading through the prompt more and getting a full understanding of the requirements, I began to layout my starting method for file reading. I laid out pseudocode in the form of code comments to show my line of thinking to ground myself on what the m...