Impressions of the first few weeks: Week 4

My initial impressions to the first few weeks of class have been rather lack lustre, in terms of material. Even though the concepts introduced in the initial stages were overall more difficult than CSC108 I still don't find them very challenging, though  I still had small lingering questions. Contrary to their difficulty I can recognize their usefulness and can admit that these are core aspects of programming. Within the first  few weeks we went over object oriented programming, abstract data types, special methods. Object oriented programming was a simple concept to grasp for me, having some programming experience in java, I could pick up the interactions between methods, different classes and objects. So ,what I learned from the first few weeks was not the topic of the lecture but more of a appreciation for the knowledge for programming I already had.

In regard to the lectures and classes themselves I have been really impressed at the teaching style of not only my professor but also the environment of the tutorials. I found that preforming labs with partners was very helpful because being able to bounce ideas off of each other helped each others understanding of the topic. In lectures, my professor has done a great job at trying to portray different coding methods visually instead of leaving it in it's ambiguous python form. For example, the ADTs were first introduced as real life examples before delving into the coding aspect. All in all, the learning environment was convenient and beneficial.

The lecture slide posts on cdf are a nice bonus too.