I took notes on the reading assignments, then I worked on the programming assignment. The programming assignment was very simple, just a couple of variables, some math, and the comments. I didn’t have any trouble writing it, but I did take a little time looking for ways that I could improve the program and making sure that I met all of the criteria. I was somewhat surprised how straightforward it was because I was anticipating the course to be difficult from the beginning. The difficulty of the assignments will increase quickly, I expect. So for now I am hesitant to go too far ahead on my own since I haven’t taken a programming course before and I don’t want to get on the wrong track. I realize that there is a long way to go, but I’m still excited to start working with Python.
There was no specific feedback this week, and the feedback for from last week’s discussion board was somewhat general and not about my work itself, so I …show more content…
The timeline and major developments, and some of the background of the people and companies developing the machines. I was surprised by just how disorganized the development was, and how much small ventures contributed to large developments in technology. I was under the impression that development was being largely driven by a few large companies, such as Bell Labs and IBM. Also, I learned the differences between the various data types and how to use them, or at least the types covered, which is very useful. I did not see an explanation for why float division produces errors. It could be a problem with rounding, or maybe it is caused by changing the data into base 10. I’ll have to read into how that works. Any math errors would be a major liability, so that’s probably going to be addressed later in the course. The textbook also didn’t talk about what tuples were yet. Other than that, I didn’t find anything challenging this week, except for keeping up with dates in the