Monday 29th April

Today we begun the day by doing a coding starter, what we had to do was to try and fix a program to make it work. The program purpose was finding the perimeter and area of a rectangle, which didn't work correctly. I found this a good task and managed to complete it in quick succession and got it to work okay. After a while I noticed Dan looked stuck so I asked him if he needed any help at all so me and Shane resolved the issue he had and got his to work.

After this John gave a short talk about what help is available with this unit because a lot of us still seem to be confused and I think this gave some closure to some people in the class.

Then we got straight on with assignment 1 of the programming unit. I was still researching about the different types of programming, which are Procedural, object oriented and event driven. These started out as being quite confusing but as I researched and asked Dan a few question, the more I understood. By the end of the day, I completely understood what procedural and object oriented programming were and some of their advantages/disadvantages. I am glad I took the time to write down and learn these so I fully understood. I am quite confident when it comes to the coding but will still need some help in the future maybe, like most people in the class.

Overall I found today a bit more of a wakeup call than usual for the whole class, especially my level because the level threes group are falling behind and by John saying that we were behind and that deadlines should be stricter, I wanted to try and work harder and faster if it was possible for me to do so. This was a great boost of motivation and after starting the programming unit.