Week five

This marks five weeks down, and ten more to go for the school year. So this is post is after the due date of the assignment which required pair programming and here are my thoughts on it. It is effective in coming up with ideas and problem solving, but I still feel more comfortable programming on my own. Again, I’m not opposed to working as a group or pair, but I just enjoy working on my own more often than not even if I am in a group. Especially as a studio art major whose classes often times requires well studio time to get projects done, working on my own schedule gives me more freedom to get everything I need to do completed.

            Anyways the newest topic we’ve ventured into, xml is not too bad and the professor does teach it well. So no real complaints there, though the xml schema method of defining the xml does seem a bit overwhelming with its many layers of tags. Granted we only touched on it near the end of class on Friday so he may go into more detail on it on Monday. I hope he does, because if we need to use it in the next assignment, I’d rather have more information on it prior to diving into it. But other than these details the class as a whole does not seem to be too bad, I am not going to say it is easy, but thus far the material is not incredibly overwhelming though it does require quite a bit of time and effort to get through. So right not it seems as though the class will be worth the work in terms of what it teaches and at the same time does not seem like it will become a bad class to take for the Elements of Computing credit needed.
            As a whole I would recommend this class if you either want the certificate or if you are just interested in Computer Science but do not want to major in it. It is not a bad thing to try the pair programming, at least once just to see if it improves you work or not. In my case it can be helpful, but I burn out a lot quicker than working alone, so it is a double-edged sword.