Blue J- Unit 2 Reflection (2/16/17)

Reflection after the these topics covered:

Please write your thoughts in your blog regarding where you are in your learning up to this point:

1. Involving the Blue J environment, I struggled with general syntax errors as I wrote the code. Whenever you don't know the problem of the syntax error, it can be pretty frustrating. However, I eventually learned the mistakes I made as well as the settings in Blue J too. This environment requires more knowledge about coding compared to other programming languages but I am able to learn more types of coding.

2. I am very comfortable with the process. Since I took a similar class with computers last year, I am very familiar with saving projects and code to the C drive. :)

3. I am confident that I can write code to produce output precisely as long as we use concepts that we covered.

4. I am clear on naming conventions as well as when putting comments in code.

5. The challenges were making the program work and finding the right type of code to use. I often mix up the different types of coding I learned which will turn into a big mess. Eventually, I will be able to solve the issue with it.

Third Day with Blue J (2/07/17)

During class today, we used what we learned this week and last week to make some cool nifty exercises for ourselves. I ran into a little problem when I had trouble with adding a new line or indenting with the font. To fix it, I simply just had to fix the order of where I put the code at. I was able to get through most of the exercises.

Second Day with Blue J (2/03/17)

Key Concepts:
- Object-oriented terminology
- Creating and executing Java applications
- Displaying output
- Formatting program output
- Adding projects to format code
- Applying coding conversations
- Using algorithm design to problem solve

Today, we learned how to do even more with Blue J. First, we did the Hello World custom to the class and made a window to deliver the message. I found the coding surprisingly simple except that some of the letters and symbols may not make sense to me at first. After that, we learned escape sequence which is kind of confusing at first. We are limited to four options and it feels confined to adjust the lines and spacing of the greetings. But, this is something I should just get used to overtime.

First Day with Blue J (2/02/17)

In Blue J, it was a bit of trouble figuring out how to work the program at first. The coding is case sensitive along with the syntax errors. I have multiple errors and it was to the point where I copied and pasted and it failed. But after that, I seem to get the hang of it and I have noticed that MyFirstProgram turned out really nicely. Blue J looks like a program you have to get used to first.