My interest in computer science stems from my time in high school where I took computer science courses with my good friends who did a lot to help me improve my coding and encouraged me to think through the problems I would encounter while coding. I enjoyed the subject so much that I decided to come to University for it. One of the unique things that this course provided me with was the opportunity to continue to work with others to help improve my understanding of the material. In most some subjects it can be painful to work with a partner but I find that computer science is one subject where it is much more difficult and stressful if you try and struggle through alone. Since the course requires so much dynamic thought in order to problem solve it is useful to have someone who you can share your ideas with or gather feedback from. Overall I thought that the group projects were an excellent help with my understanding of the material.
If there's one concept that still stumps me from time to time it's linked lists. Having worked with regular lists for so long its sometimes hard to remember exactly what the differences are and how they affect the function you are trying to create to solve a problem.
In conclusion, I really did enjoy this course and it has given me great faith going forward that computer science is indeed the field of study I want to be in.
I agree, linked lists are a bit tricky... and I also agree that working through the debugging process with others is much more constructive than doing so alone what with the potential to be bouncing ideas off of each other and then building on said ideas (I did all the 108 assignments alone and all the 148 assignments in groups and definitely noticed the difference). Also I enjoy your Hitchhiker's Guide reference.
ReplyDeleteI feel the same as you, this course has fuelled my interest in computer science as the course was always interesting.
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