Lecture for day 2 was on references and scope. References is a concept I do kind of feel uncomfortable with, but most of the confusion has to do with understanding the mutability of the value that’s being referenced, and whether a particular function or method is mutating that value, therefore changing or not changing the variable referencing the value. Scope was pretty easy to understand. For the most part, majority of the content so far in week 1 is a reiteration of the concepts covered in the prep work, albeit a bit more in depth.

Yesterday’s pair programming session was a lot more manageable. Pair programming went a lot more smoothly since both of us did the required readings ahead of time. We definitely didn’t finish the projects, but felt really good about our understanding of the concepts.

The homework on recursion was surprisingly pretty easy. I’ve actually been fairly comfortable with recursion, but that’s definitely due to the extra practices I’ve been doing, as well as working on the blog article that tries to explain to you what recursion is and the general strategy on how to approach it. I’m excited for today’s lecture and I’m really, really looking forward to the pair projects today!

That’s it for today! Talk to you guys tomorrow! I’m hoping to start blogging at night as opposed to each morning, but I’ll do what I can.