R2 – 100daysofcode

R2D7 – Finishing Tic Tac Toe and Starting 21

I submitted my changes to my tic tac toe game and I hope that the TA responds back with helpful tips that I can use to further improve my game. It was a headache seeing it for the first couple weeks but I think I have a better grasp on how it works. There were some issues that I couldn’t figure out but it’s alright because it’s all part of the learning process. Now we’re on to learning how to build a made-up game called 21. It’s their stripped down version of Blackjack. You play against the dealer (in this case the computer) and you each have two cards. You can see both of your cards, but you can only see one of the dealer’s cards. Whoever can get as close to the number 21 (by adding their card values) without going over, wins the game. If you do go over, you ‘bust’ and the point gets awarded to the other player. When it’s your turn, you have a choice to ‘hit’, which means to draw a card, or ‘stay’, to keep what you have and pass the decision on to the dealer. They then decide what they want to do. If you decide to hit and you pull a card that totals your card’s value to a sum past 21, you lose. If you stay, and the dealer also stays, we compute the total for you and the dealer to see who has the higher number.

It sounds simple enough, but with code, it’s rarely ever simple. Thus is my mission for the next couple weeks, to build out this interesting game and further my coding skills. I’m going out of town to see my fam on Wednesday, but I obviously plan to still study. I want to get this game done! Once it is done, I think all we have to do is submit course feedback, start a blog, and take a quiz. Then it’s done! Once that is finished I have to complete the Medium set of problems and start fully committing my time to studying for the 101 Assessment. I plan to get it done before the end of November.

That’s it for me, gotta lot of work to do. Goodnight and stay SpOoKy.

R2D2 – Finally Made It To 6 Hours!

As the title states, I have managed to reach my daily study goal of 6 hours!! It might not seem like a big woop but it truly is; my average study time right now is in between 4-5 hours. Since I’m a full time student, naturally it is expected of me to accomplish more daily study time than a part time student would. Saying you want to do that is much easier said than done however, as I’ve learned these past few months. The brains just starts to fry like an egg on hot asphalt after hour 4. Unless you change up exactly what you are studying, it gets dull real fast. As I’ve mentioned before, we’re currently adding bonus features to our lovely tic tac toe game, which is a pain to say the least. I don’t know if I’m the only student who runs into a million errors on the road to ‘completing’ the game, but it sure feels like I don’t know what I’m doing at least 80% of the time. It’s tough trying to avoid syntax and logical errors that can occur at any point in the code and make it all work together in perfect harmony. I’ve gotten to the point where it’ll 1: display the score, 2: display which round you are on, 3: clear the screen after each round, 4: update your score and the computers, and 5: tell you who won. There’s about 6 more things on the list of features we have to add onto the game but since it’s working okay-ish now, I’m nervous to run into even more errors. Especially since I’m not quite sure even how to add those things to the game. That’s a headache for tomorrow though because study time is over for me tonight! I feel that it’s still early enough for me to watch a few videos then I’ll head to bed. Goodnight everyone! Stay Spooky.

R2D1 – Spooky Month & Tic Tac Toe!

Today is the first day of the best month of the year! Since I was a tot I was obsessed with October, Fall, Halloween and holidays in general. I’m in love with all things spooky! Cooler weather is on the way and that means going for walks and seeing the leaves change color, which is always magical to see. Today also marks the start of Hacktober, which is an event that lasts all October and encourages people all of coding (or non-coding) backgrounds to contribute to open-source projects. I’ve spent a great deal of time already searching for something I can contribute to as someone with very little coding experience to do anything with. If you manage to get in 4 pull requests on Github by the end of the month, you will receive a free tshirt! Cool stuff. I’ll see what I can do.

For LS, we are in the middle of creating a tic tac toe game. The first time I ran through the code was frustrating, I ended up feeling overwhelmed and got a headache trying to wrap my head around all the methods and whatnot. I spent some time today rewatching the pry video and also the tic tac toe ones to review. This has to be the way I do things from now on: watching videos whilst coding along with them, then rewatching the same videos the next day. I understand a little bit more now why certain things are done the way they are and that gives me hope that I will eventually understand the whole game. It’s getting to the bonus features that is troubling. I’m not sure if it’s mandatory but I do them anyway as best as I can because learning this stuff properly is very much important to me.

I’ve been trying to increase my study hours and even if I’m sick of seeing this stuff, I still think that I’m mentally able to. However, the internet situation here at this dreadful apartment complex is making my life miserable. I’ve been trying to get this resolved for maybe a week now but no one from the internet company has talked to me. The internet seems to be getting worse. I feel bad for Vin because we got a phone plan thinking that we could get hotspot, but apparently our phones are not compatible for it with our current service carrier. It’s complicated. Why is it so difficult to just have good internet connection?

Anyway, that’s it for tonight. I’m not sure if I’ll have to study outside of home because of the internet. I don’t really want to, but I’ll have to decide tonight. I also haven’t been spending time crocheting or playing games, or anything personally fun lately because I’ve been solely worried about school, but I think that it’s important for me to carve out time like that to just have fun. Can’t be too serious all the time now!