week of 1/31

We worked on Python all last week. It can be very frustrating at times, but Jaron and I have been working together to solve the problems. We'll each figure out an element of some code and eventually we'll figure it out and get it to work. This is a good way to get our work done because we can ask each other for help and if we're stuck, we can both try different things to see if we can get the right answer. I still like Python a lot more than Java because the syntax is much less complicated and it makes a lot more sense to me (even though I still have a lot of trouble sometimes...).

I really like this news story from NPR:

http://www.npr.org/2011/02/08/133505880/at-end-of-the-line-prison-an-unlikely-escape

I think it is proof that people can actually have the willpower to fix their own problems.