Dylan's Journal

My overall focus over the last two weeks has been on working on my presentation. My presentation addresses my overall strengths, adversities, confusions, successes, improvements and real life applications. Why? I've always been mathematically inclined and I love to see, understand and solve innovative problems. One who understands the ideas and functions of Computer Science has a significant advantage over any businessman or economist when it comes to the business world. The future holds many new technologies and having a basic understanding as to how this new technology functions is extremely beneficial. How? Throughout the course of this semester I dived into Computer Science and Karel J Robot, which is the textbook that I learnt out of. I also used the resources around me which were, Mr. Shappell as well as classmates who are taking AP Computer Science such as Omer. What? I was able to gain sufficient background knowledge and an understanding of Computer Science ...

These past few weeks have been very invigorating and exciting. I have started to really understand methods as well as their finer details and intricacies. I have consistently and will still keep working towards becoming a c ritical and c reative t hinker as well as an i nnovative p roblem solver. My biggest strength over the past few weeks came about just a few days ago, this was my overall understanding of the capabilities and power of methods. I understood that by creating an UberRobot that extends my original UrRobot was very useful. This is because if I write a program with all the methods I think I will need in the future, all I have to do is create a new robot that extends UberRobot and I will no longer have to write out the simple methods such as turning right, moving backwards etc. This was definitely a Eureka moment! The reason for this success is that I have been invested in my learning and have made a concerted effort to ask questions that expand my knowledge. I have a...