Major activities of the day: Introduction to O-values through a prime numbers exercise, more homework review, and the long-awaited intro to Object-Oriented Programming! (Henceforth, it shall be known as OOP.) One of today's exercises was reimplementing a jukebox we previously created, this time as a Jukebox object. We also played around a lot with Regexps. Lots of confusing things. I'm not entirely clear on how they're evaluated; it's a lengthy topic, and I'm discovering it by tinkering. Also, I am a huge fan of
www.rubular.com. The instructors have pointed us to it a few times, though I already knew about it before Flatiron. It's a fantastic way to play with Regexps and discover how to properly construct them to evaluate the way you want.
Today was also the first day of blog reviews. Every day, 4 students will briefly (in <5 minutes) present technical blog posts they have written. Everyone does at least 5 over the course of the semester. Mine is in about a week from now - I'll post a link, don't worry!
Skills developed: Working with objects and Regexps
QOTD: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
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