Week Eleven

            This is week eleven, thus only four weeks are left. This week also marks the completion of the second part and the start of the final part of the project. Overall the project is going fine, the group members seem able to work together well and our project seems to meet all the requirements. Granted one member is especially amazing in his programming skills, which is a great asset to the group. The class for the week has been a bit peculiar. Professor Downing for the most part has continually specified that this is not a python course, but databases. However, the last week seemed to focus entirely on python coding and how immutable versus mutable data types. I am uncertain if this is being done to help with the coding aspect, but thus far I am not seeing the correlation between learning the data types and how they are stored and other aspects of their reaction in terms of memory and programming. I am waiting to see how or if it will tie in with the mySql databases or other forms of data storage. But other than that one confusion over the course material, the class itself is fine. The professor still cares about his students doing well, so he takes things slow with the material and tries to make sure that everyone understands and still punctuates his points with curses for emphasis, which still amuses me greatly. So other than the material the class is going well in terms of experience of the course and my feelings towards it. And only four more weeks of material to go, which also means registration is coming up. Not sure if anyone other than the professor and those in the class read these, but it is not a bad class to take. It just requires a lot of outside class time to program and study. However, the professor is pretty good and the material seems beneficial to learn in the long run of databases, excluding the recent material to which I am still unsure of how it connects with the databases.