Ramblings of a CS Student

Week 1 A lot of this week's material felt like a review of concepts I learned in Data Structures with Mrs. E at Orange Coast College. We went back over things like vectors, lists, stacks, queues, sets, maps, trees, and graphs, and I was pleasantly surprised by how much of it came back to me. I was especially proud of myself for being able to parse through the coding examples and understand what was happening without feeling completely lost. I know I'm a CS major and I even have a certificate in C++, but I still feel like sometimes I'm five steps behind at the beginning of coding-heavy courses. Some semesters have little to no coding, so by the time I come back to it, I feel a little rusty. If you don't use it, you lose it, amirite?  I also liked realizing that some of the basics came back pretty quickly. While revieing the lecture coding examples I remembered that a queue is FIFO, while a stack is LIFO. Working through the lecture and PowerPoint exercises helped reinfor...