Learn C#: Unit 2 Completed

Day 10 #100DaysOfCode

Today I spent a big chunk of time dedicated to completing Unit 2 of Learn C# from Codecademy. There were some struggles getting the last of the lessons down, but I stuck with it and soon figured out where I was going wrong. Coding is a very exact thing and I have to be sure I fully get my head around it, which is why I am going slow and trying to be thorough.

While finishing my last interactive lesson from the unit, Working With Text, I learned about the various commands and protocols associated with strings. It seemed a little trickier than Working With Numbers but I eventually got it down. Syntax! Syntax! Syntax!

Once that was finished I had a Quiz to take on things I was supposed to learn from this unit. I must have been paying attention because I got all twelve questions right. Yay!

From there two Freeform Projects were then tackled which put me elbow-deep in code as I attempted to put together everything I had learned to satisfy the project requirements.

The first project was a Mad Libs style game where I had to ask the user for a bunch of input and then print it all back out utilizing the given story framework. This was fun because it was more than just a few lines of code like I had been used to up until this point.

The second project was a Money Maker program where I had to take the user’s input of how much money they had and calculate the fewest number of coins it could be made in. This taught some good functionality and made me want to go above and beyond, so I transferred my work directly into Visual Basic so I could really play around with it. For the first time I felt like I was in control of the code, which was quite satisfying!