Final Post

Greenfoot, I believe, was a good choice of a final. First of all, I've had experience with it, both this year and last year. I’ve done multiple projects last year in Castillo’s class, and this year, in the second semester I remember making a couple of games. However, this new Greeps project was foreign to me. I’ve been working on it a lot, even the weekend, only looking at youtube videos for inspiration. I kind of think, other groups are directly using code, because they’re using code which they are unable to explain to me when I ask them how they did it. It seems suspicious, but at least I know that I’m working on it fair and square. Out of this class, I’ve gotten a lot more familiar with JAVA. Especially going to those computer science competitions. Those competitions have forced me to get my JAVA refamiliared and coding straight on the computer a bit better. Even though software programming is what this class is all about, I was kind of hoping it learn more about the hardware parts. My dad is actually a hardware engineer, and he doesn’t program programs directly but he fixes problems in the hardware and things like that. That is actually I’m a bit interested in internetworking next year too. So by the end of next year, I can see what I enjoy more, software or more hardware. I might have liked to learn more languages. Even though I attempted to at the end, I just got caught up with other things like website building for a cricket club. So my computer language knowledge is still in the JAVA range. It would be helpful to colleges and other organizations that I would apply to say that I can program in blank, blank and blank. But I guess it’ll still be just JAVA. A lot of my family members are hardware computer engineers and this hopefully may be passed onto me. Software is something my family or I wasn’t ever familiar with it before high school, but when I saw that the Comp Sci AP was available to me, I figured that it would be very interesting to try out. I ended up enjoying it, and I still do today. But I have realized that when in competitions with people in your or above your skill level, things can get very pressurized and tense. Especially when a code doesn’t work. That is why it would have been better if I became one of those better coders.