#dataserialization

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week, day = 2, 1

Assessment 1 taught me that I don’t understand binary search quite as well as I thought. At least I didn’t. Now I do. It also reminded me of how much I’ve learned in just a week. My circadian sleep cycle, on the other hand, is currently reminding me how little sleep I got during that time. So this’ll be quick :)

Today was about data serialization. We covered the pros and cons of YAML and JSON and talked about some common use cases like saving/loading an instance of a game.

Our pair programming exercise today was to implement the 90s classic MineSweeper. The solution my partner and I came up with wasn’t pretty, but it ran. And through the process I came to understand that it’s extremely important to know exactly how the various classes you create fit together before you get too far in. It’s also important to do things right from the beginning. We put off a lot of the good coding practices we’ve learned in the interest of “just getting it to run and refactoring later”, and the reult is a program that runs, but the code of which I’d be embarassed to ever show anyone. We made so many “fix it later” decisions, that it’s not just a matter of refactoring anymore; to do it right, I’d probably start again from scratch. Lesson learned.