Final Blog Post

This year in comp sci has been enjoyable. To begin, Greenfoot for the final is, in my opinion, a fine idea. Taking into consideration that a lot of people have scrapped their original projects, I think having a fairly fun and not extremely difficult final like this is a good idea. It would have been better if our projects culminated into our final grade, but as I said, most people scrapped theirs.  Doing a Greenfoot final is however a lot better than a written AP, considering how much I hate writing code on paper. This class has been a pretty good class. I actually did learn some XNA and am even considering doing something with it. It’s a pretty nice language and the things that Stefan and I made in such little time were really amazing. As far as Android development goes, I feel as though it was kind of worthless. I didn’t really learn much Android code and I feel it would’ve been nicer to focus on actually learning a new language since the beginning. Had the class been almost entirely XNA I would have enjoyed it a lot more. At the end of the first semester we became kind of misguided and realized how large of an undertaking an entire Android application was, with no Android to even test our app on. A lot of the code was way out of our league and the official LASA app that would’ve come out would’ve looked very unprofessional. Overall, it would’ve been nicer to actually learn an entire language kind of like we did in AP Comp Sci. It would’ve been nice to have an actual curriculum instead of just scrambling to finish the app without a real end in sight. We could’ve also created one app as a class and assigned different parts of the app to different people. However, the class was fun and a great learning experience. It was Comp Sci 2’s first year, and that has to be taken into account. I enjoyed comp sci 2 and will remember it as a great, fun class.