I think it went well. I think I understood how everything fit
together. As I was working, I was thinking that I could really do
this assignment without looking at plotting.py and ticks.py because
of how the steps were broken down, and I'd probably still get an
understanding of using functions to break down problems. In some
ways, I appreciated having plotting.py and ticks.py made for me,
because it kept the focus on breaking down problems as opposed to
focusing on writing all the minutia (like flyto) from scratch. of
course, I did look through them! I wasn't thinking about other
programs I could write--I suppose I'm just focused on the programs
I have to write at the moment, to be honest. I think once I'm caught
up with assignments and have time to plan new curricular materials,
I'll be able to keep the idea of this lab in mind. Given my
background as a math teacher, I imagine I'd want to do other data
visualization tasks.
It went pretty well. In terms of writing the functions, I skimmed
the instructions a bit too quickly, so I had to reread it to
understand how to pull just the x- or y-coordinate in the last two
functions. The discord was very helpful in figuring out what to do
about the error I was getting when testing the clamp function, in
that two people had already encountered the same error and provided
a fix in the test file.
I think I could write the majority of the scatter plot function if
I had to, and I feel pretty confident I could google whatever I would
need to finish it. I feel the idea of breaking down a problem into
smaller ones, and also some of the problems we've done, overlap well
with my math teaching background.
Cory Dean Chung
cchung