Journal 31

 January 7 - January 13

Hello journal, long time no see! We are now halfway through the CSUMB CSOnline program, and we are currently in CST370. Time sure is flying. This week we started out on some easy algorithms and some refreshing on tree structures. The reading mostly consisted of foundational concepts in algorithms, and the puzzles helped in preparing our brains to problem solve like programmers. I am having a lot of fun doing the puzzles. The lectures, in specific, focused on methods for computing greatest common divisor (GCD) such as Euclid's algorithm. The use of pseudocode shows us each step to the algorithms, and greatly helps in breaking down the problems for understanding. In addition, the lectures and readings covered graphs, trees, sorting, searching, BigO notation, and algorithm efficiency, which is mostly review for me as I have taken a course called Advanced Data Structures at my community college. I am excited to see what this course has in store!