Computer Science 10
Intro to CS I
Fall 2007 semester, I was in CS 10
(Introduction to Computer Science I) at Westmont College.
In this class, I finally get to learn a programing
language. In this class we are learning Scheme, which is a form of
Lisp,. Having little experience
programing, I could start from scratch with this class.
This is a hard class because it is not the basic
reading, writing, and arithmetic we have taken for
13.5-ish years. The learning curve is steep, but I am
blessed with great fellow students in this class,
upperclassmen who have been though this to lookup to,
and a great Professor. You can go see the CS 10 website
at http://www.westmont.edu/%7Eiba/teaching/CS010/index.html.
I have learned a lot and keep learning more. This is one
class I don't just want to get a grade in, I also come out
with a firm grasp and understanding of what we have
learned. Not only have we leaned to write programs, but we
have learned to look at something and break it down into
small manageable tasks (like helper programs), to ask
questions, thinking for 7 hours with no idea what to do is
just as good as 1 hour of being lost, I don't know
everything but I know people who can help me learn, and a
lot more.
Here is a project we did with swarming critters (which I
like to make look like tanks). This draws a group of
critters or tanks and they go driving around on the screen,
but once the hit the edge they "magically" appear on the
other side.
