Week 4
Quiz Catch-up from last week...
I was able to figure out the first few questions on last week's quiz (with some help from videos and tutorials, honestly, I could not write the codes on my own) but was totally stumped on these last two exercises. I met up with Aarón the resident to go over these, and realized through our meeting and his advice that in order to learn how to learn how to write shorter code sometimes it is easier to do things with tons of lines of code at first, just to break down what is happening — and then simplify it later once you get the concepts down.
Doing the quizzes is helping in general to force myself to figure some things out, but I have yet to actually write anything from scratch without checking a source somewhere. The concepts are sinking in but the next step or challenge for me would be to write some of these from scratch, possibly only with p5.js as a reference...
Note: The last exercise is similar to how the mirror board piece in the ITP lobby works! Or at least how the squares are mapped...in terms of registering movement and altering their appearance I am not quite understanding that yet.