Week Three

This week, I felt a lot more confident coming into programming.  While I'm still not one hundred percent sure about regular expressions, I feel a lot more comfortable using them, and have actually found them helpful (and time saving), where as before, I thought they were a waste of time because it took me so long to figure out how to properly write one. I'm excited that we are moving into other methods of programming this week (HTTP, JSON, etc) because most of it is new to me.

I also took your advice from last week and wrote out a plan for how I/my group was going to attack the lab, and found that it went much more smoothly when we had decided on a step-by-step plan for how to go about working on it.  We didn't get stuck near as much, and if we did, we could easily brainstorm an alternative way to address the problem that we were attacking in that step, so there were fewer moments where we sat staring at each other, unsure of what to do next.  While I did like the "To-Dos", I think this new method of labs allows for more creativity, which also helps my problem of getting stuck.

I'm looking forward to using this same method for my Homework this weekend, and hope that it to goes smoothly.