Week 53

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Hi blog! It’s been awhile. I’ve been so busy with school, work, and life. The holidays are over so my work isn’t as bad. I’m currently in the process of moving out of my life so huge is a little rough but I’m getting through it.


We started our first week of Algorithms. The professor posts readings, lectures, puzzles, quizzes, and homework. I really enjoyed the puzzles I think they’re fun and really get my brain going. Particularly the fake coin puzzle, the best I could come with is putting half coins on one side and half on the other. But that lead to 3 different searches. I also struggled with figuring out if I’m going to do C++ or Java for the course, so far I’ve done 1 of each and I honestly might just do C++. I’ve done a lot of Java here at CSUMB. It would be a good refresher because I haven’t thoroughly used C++ since De Anza. The 2 homework’s were challenging and really had me thinking. The quiz was also difficult. It has been fun learning about algorithms, graphs, and brushing up on time and space complexity.

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