Computer Science BS Journal: Week 10

 This week in CST 338 the majority of the work was on HW01: Markov Text Generation. This one was a tough one for me. I ran into countless issues. The methods that gave me the biggest headache were the addWord() method and the addFromFile() method. I know once you read this you'll ask how I managed to make those two simple methods so very hard, and I'll just give it to you straight...overthinking, overcomplicating, and not focusing ON. THE. PROMPT. I turned what should have been a 4-6 hour assignment (honestly looking back it should have only taken me 2 hours or so if I hadn't made all the mistakes I did) into an assignment that took nearly 8 hours. In the end I had to request a team member to review my code and help point out my mistakes. I had previously tried to let AI review my code and suggest revisions (no pure answers for the code) to try and figure out where I was going wrong. At the end of the day it was my Markov method. I forgot to implement my Markov method. This whole time I was getting errors because my BEGIN_SENTENCE wasn't being initialized right away and that was causing all of my outputs to not include the first word, and because it wasn't including that word it wasn't being added into my string arrays either. One simple mistake causing a big domino effect. That's what I get though for procrastinating all week. This is my turning point! NO MORE PROCRASTINATION! 

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