Week Six

This is the end of the sixth week of class. My feelings on the class thus far are pretty much the same as they have been in the last few weeks. Professor Downing is a very passionate educator and his cursing for emphasis still amuses me for no real reason other than his ability to punctuate his sentences with them at just the right time to get a point across. Anyways, as a follow up from last week, he did go more in depth into XML schemas and did introduce how SQL works through a comparison to Python, both of which were very informative.

We have started to group up for the group project to come, but, and this is not a reflection on Professor Downing as it is on the students, it seems the class is having difficulty in getting into groups or staying organized. This is not that surprising in retrospect since it seems like a lot of people are either skipping or dropping the class which makes organizing that much more difficult, for both the professor and students. Granted the professor does usually try to call on students who are absent and even talk to them, so he does seem to genuinely care about attendance and making sure people understand the subject. So we will see how the group set-up works out, because thus far it seems like a slow going process even before we start working on the project.

 

I guess I now need to find out what to say for a hundred more words. This would be easier if I had something to complain about, but once you get into the groove on things and the GitHub hurdle is overcome it seems like the class mellows out in terms of complexity. Though that is not to say it is not a difficult class, but easy to know what you need to do. Granted the first test is coming up and for all I know I could be completely unprepared for it, but here is to hoping the study guide provided helps and that attendance and understanding the material is what is needed to pass the test with flying colors.