Our first exam is this Friday and I'm a little anxious to see the kinds of questions that will be on it. For the most part, the readings, assignments, quizzes, and lectures have not been too difficult to understand. However, I am worried about how specific the questions over the readings will be, since the readings were quite extensive and covered a lot of material. I'm also worried to write code in python since I've only programmed twice in python so far and some of the syntax still eludes me from time to time.
On a different note, my programming partner and I are almost done with the second programming assignment and I found this assignment much easier to manage than the last. I mostly attribute this to pair programming and the learning curve I had to overcome in the last assignment. Having spent more time than expected on the first project, I actually overestimated the amount of time it would take for this one. If I had one ongoing complaint, it would be that it is sometimes difficult to debug your code with Sphere. My partner and I kept getting wrong answers in Sphere and were not able to figure out where we were going wrong simply because Sphere doesn't tell you what test case you're missing. We had to wait for other students in the class to submit their test cases before we found out that we were understanding the problem incorrectly. Sphere can be frustrating because the messages can not help you find out where you're going wrong, but is generally a useful tool in validating program correctness.
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