CST338 - Week 2

 

CST338 – Software Design Week1

In week 2, I worked on the first homework to build a guessing five-word game, Jotto. At the beginning of working on this program, I felt it would be challenging to come up with an entirely working code. I figured that I just needed to get the basics of the code written quickly and work towards a strategy that fixes every method. Dr.C posted an office hour video that shows building the menu of choices in Java and how to read from a file. This was definitely a good head start that explained the strategy behind implementing exception handling when working with files. I faced issues with almost every method especially the method showPlayerGuess(). For some reason, it was confusing to implement. Another challenge I had was related to the pickword() method. I had the logic implemented as an IF-Statement, but it was not passing for me. I ended up using a while loop to correct this issue. I also used office hours and received help from our TA. She is super helpful and understands the material well, and she is very responsive and eager to help. Overall, I learned a lot this week about inheritance, interfaces, and abstracted classes.