March 17, 2007

Today in class I took a crash course of C++. I went over the stuff that the last class began. Afterwards we went over different functions of the C++ Programming. Such as using copy/pasting scriptings and did several projects from simple stuff to more complex things like games.

I am still getting used to this Programming, it can be very confusing and annoying. We always started learning the long and hard way, after we were taught the more easier and faster way of doing any kind of feature. The part that gave me most trouble was the for feature. Also the many different varieties  of  sequences we had to enter to make something simple work sucessfully was very annoying and hard in my opinion.

C++ Programming overall can be very interesting and fun, but also hard and stressfull. Hopefully I will get used to this programming fast, so that I can first of all catch up and maybe use what I learn later for the better.

March 24, 2007

In class today we continued working on the Black Jack game project that we have started last class.  We were working on it the whole class period, and it is still not completly finished. It seems like this project is very complex and complicated. For me programming C++  is difficult. Mostly it is because of the long class period, I cannot concentrate for 5 hours on the same thing. However, this class is almost finished and I can't wait to get out of here.

Although it was interesting to constantly update the Black Jack game and make it better or add new things to make it better. As the game gets better the scripting gets even more complex. I believe we are almost done with this Game, since it starts more and more to look like a real game.

Hopefully we will make the game even better next time, it still needs some tweeks. The hardest in programming in my experience is to come up with a better or easier solution.

March 31, 2007

Today we started the day opening our Black Jack Project and continued working on it, I did not think we still had to do a lot of different new things, since in the last class session we have worked for the whole time on only this project. What I liked best is that I was able to play the game without any complications and it was very cool. We learned different new tricks, also a lot of scripting that was too complex for us, so we just copied it from the monitor. After 3 hours the Black Jack game was finally completed, and I enjoyed playing the game, even though I lost most of the time. My favorite part of the game was the betting and to win.

The Black Jack project was the most interesting and too the longest also.

After we have completed the Black Jack game we started the final assesment or Project in order to pass the enrichment. I was quite unsure that I will be able to finish the program successfully since I missed one class session, but after a little bit of thinking I finished.