Week 5

Class:
Once again we were faced with a short week as there was no class this past Friday due to final exams for first session classes. I am really thrilled to see that the material is finally shifting towards making classes. Im not sure how much the professor is going to stress object oriented programming principles and paradigms but seeing classes show up in the example slides is definitely refreshing. I feel like this will be very useful for our projects. Again the material is becoming trickier to remember as Python blurs the lines between where a function begins and where it ends... From what I understand functions are declared in the heap so that they retain some form of life even when the execution path leaves the function and similarly some functions can access data from the calling function which is odd behavior but definitely useful. Its finally test week so the professor has uploaded some useful information on how to prepare for the test which is a huge relief. We have also been told that the exam will involve strictly writing code. Good luck to everyone and see you on the other end!

Project:
Phase one of the project was fun. I'm super lucky to have found a very talented group of individuals. Since the idea that was chosen was my own, I was very pleased to see the result of the end of phase one. While the future of this project will definitely be beyond the scope of this class, I hope the rest of this project helps us create the solid ground work that will allow us to make this project generate some real cash and actually be a useful site for Austinites looking for a bite to eat. I went out this past weekend and secured a domain name for the future completed site to be housed at and Im going to suggest to my group this week that we officially go forth with the name kravester for our project. I believe the hardest part of this past week was juggling the project for this class with the Big Integer project for the STL class but more about that on the other blog...