Journal 13

 April 2 - April 8

For this week's learning journal, I reviewed code with my three teammates (Austin Shatswell, Brandon Nhep, and Tim Mujeci). My strategy for solving the Markov assignment was to read over the prompt and jump right in to coding. I felt as though I understood the assignment thoroughly enough to begin coding without writing out notes or a map, as the assignment was straight forward and relatively simple. My teammates each agreed that they began coding right away, too. Some of us made a shell of each of the methods, while others went one-by-one following the prompt's layout. I would change my strategy in working on the assignment by being more thorough with passing tests and getting Github to pass. Often, I have trouble with passing on the Github end despite my local tests passing, so I get frustrated and turn things in as is with only my local tests passing. If I were able to go back, I would be sure to focus more on the Github testing aspect of the assignment. My code does not follow the Javadoc comments guide, I was just putting one line comments before each method rather than following the outline. I was not marked down for this, but Polina let me know to use the Javadoc comments style on my next assignment. I did know that I can automate applying some of the style guide rules as this link was in previous assignments. Overall, I am happy with my code minus the test that fails, and will be sure to correct that.