People Should Give More Completion Grades

That's one of the things I like about this class; stuff is generally completion grades. It's nice, and you still learn, cause even though it's an easy 100 (which is nice), stuff is marked wrong, and Stephens actually goes over what you did wrong. Not so in Planet Earth.
The only 100 I have in that class is a grade for which we got signatures. Everything else has 0.5 taken off; in a grade that is out of 8, 0.5 is a ridiculous amount to take off. And yet Ms. Fan seems unable to give perfect grades to things that aren't detailed to the extreme. Now mind, Ms. Fan is a good person. It's just her grading technique. Thank God she's only grading one of my essays.

Reflection on 2.3

This week appeared to be mosthy dovoted to arrays, something that I have no objection to; I like arrays. Arrays, I think, are nicely intuitive, and the only thing that might be problematic is the numbering of the spaces of the array, in that it starts from 0 instead of 1, while when calculating length, one starts from one. Other than that, I think that arrays won't pose too much of a problem, something for which I'm very glad.

Pearl Amster

One might wonder what, or more likely who Pearl Amster was. It's a what.The Pearl Amster Concerto Competition is an annual musical competition where each contestant plays a concerto no longer than 12 minutes for a panel of three judges. I played the third movement of Beethoven's 5th "Emperor" Piano Concerto. I took an very surprising honorable mention. 

Ben, quit messing around with my account

This extraneous post is courtesy of Ben Goldstein, who has now displayed his utmost stupidity.
Thank you.

Reflection on 2.2

I've been rather amiss in posting my blog posts, for which I apologize; I have not started homework before 9 for a week (out of necessity, I might add, not procrastination or laziness). This week, then, was very busy, to the point that I have again started doing homework in school. Decidedly not good.
CompSci also seems to pick up a bustling pace, introducing the concept of files. This is something I am not quite understanding, though that may be my own fault. Simply put, I know how to access files with scanners as we were taught, but I might have missed where exactly the files are stored. Do you have to create your own? Where do we know what is contained in the file? As in, where do we see it? Is it stored in Java or elsewhere? This is what confuses me about files. Accessing them is easy, but just this bit is not clear.

Reflection on 2.1

And it is now a new semester, having now returned from a too-long break, over which we have grown fat and lazy, incapable of doing work (at least, that's how I feel). And back to work we indeed go. Luckily, in this class at any rate, we start easy. I think that most of what we have done this week was review, getting ourselves refamiliarized with gridworld, and not having more than we can do in a class period. Which is great. Being eased into things is nice. Especially after you forgot how to work.